CVE Catalog

CVE-2023-39176

MediumCVSS 5.8
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Elevated risk
0.67%

51th percentile - higher than 51% of all known CVEs

Summary

A flaw was found within the parsing of SMB2 requests that have a transform header in the kernel ksmbd module. The issue results from the lack of proper validation of user-supplied data, which can result in a read past the end of an allocated buffer. An attacker can leverage this to disclose sensitive information on affected installations of Linux. Only systems with ksmbd enabled are vulnerable to this CVE.

Risk Assessment

An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to disclose sensitive information from system memory, potentially compromising data confidentiality. Only systems with ksmbd enabled are vulnerable.

Recommendation

Update the Linux kernel to a version that includes a fix for this issue, or disable the ksmbd module if not required.

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Original NVD description (English source)

A flaw was found within the parsing of SMB2 requests that have a transform header in the kernel ksmbd module. The issue results from the lack of proper validation of user-supplied data, which can result in a read past the end of an allocated buffer. An attacker can leverage this to disclose sensitive information on affected installations of Linux. Only systems with ksmbd enabled are vulnerable to this CVE.

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS