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CVE-2023-6121

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CVE-2023-6121

Published: Nov 16, 2023

Modified: May 12, 2026

PUBLISHED

CVSS v3.1

4.3

MEDIUM

Description

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).

VendorProductVersions

Red Hat

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8

unaffected
0:4.18.0-553.rt7.342.el8_10 - < *

Red Hat

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8

unaffected
0:4.18.0-553.el8_10 - < *

Red Hat

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9

unaffected
0:5.14.0-427.13.1.el9_4 - < *

Red Hat

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9

unaffected
0:5.14.0-427.13.1.el9_4 - < *

Red Hat

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

All versions

Red Hat

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

All versions

Red Hat

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

All versions

Red Hat

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9

All versions

Weaknesses (CWE)

CVSS v3.1 Details

CVSS v3.1 Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

Low

Privileges Required

Low

User Interaction

None

Scope

Unchanged

Confidentiality

Low

Integrity

None

Availability

None

References

RHSA-2024:2394
vendor-advisory
x_refsource_REDHAT
RHSA-2024:2950
vendor-advisory
x_refsource_REDHAT
RHSA-2024:3138
vendor-advisory
x_refsource_REDHAT
RHBZ#2250043
issue-tracking
x_refsource_REDHAT

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