vulnerability

Ubuntu: (CVE-2023-6238): linux vulnerability

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:M/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
Nov 21, 2023
Added
Jun 26, 2025
Modified
Aug 18, 2025

Description

A buffer overflow vulnerability was found in the NVM Express (NVMe) driver in the Linux kernel. Only privileged user could specify a small meta buffer and let the device perform larger Direct Memory Access (DMA) into the same buffer, overwriting unrelated kernel memory, causing random kernel crashes and memory corruption.

Solution

no-fix-ubuntu-package
Title
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