CVE-2023-6121
CVSS 3.1 Score 4.3 of 10 (medium)
Details
Published Nov 16, 2023
Updated: May 22, 2024
CWE ID 125
Summary
CVE-2023-6121 is a newly discovered vulnerability affecting the NVMe-oF/TCP subsystem in the Linux kernel. This issue involves an out-of-bounds read, which can be exploited by remote attackers. They can send a specially crafted TCP packet to induce a heap-based buffer overflow. Consequences of this vulnerability include the leaking of kmalloc data to the kernel ring buffer, as observed in the dmesg logs. This weakness may pose a serious security risk, as it could potentially enable unauthorized access to sensitive information.
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Affected Products
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Affected Vendors
- Red Hat
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