CVE-2023-6121 (GCVE-0-2023-6121)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2023-11-16 14:45
Modified
2025-11-06 20:01
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CWE
- CWE-125 - Out-of-bounds Read
Summary
An out-of-bounds read vulnerability was found in the NVMe-oF/TCP subsystem in the Linux kernel. This issue may allow a remote attacker to send a crafted TCP packet, triggering a heap-based buffer overflow that results in kmalloc data being printed and potentially leaked to the kernel ring buffer (dmesg).
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Unaffected: 0:4.18.0-553.rt7.342.el8_10 < * cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:8::realtime cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:8::nfv |
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