CVE-2023-6238

nvme: memory corruption via unprivileged user passthrough

References

Notes

 carnil> Issue introduced with 855b7717f44b1 ("nvme: fine-granular
 carnil> CAP_SYS_ADMIN for nvme io commands") in 6.2-rc1.
 carnil> To exploit the issue it's still required that root changes the
 carnil> device node persmissions. Though this was allowed unter the
 carnil> assumtion it was safe to allow (which turns out not to be).

Bugs

Status

Branch Status
4.19-buster-security N/A "Vulnerable code not present"
4.19-upstream-stable N/A "Vulnerable code not present"
5.10-bullseye-security N/A "Vulnerable code not present"
5.10-upstream-stable N/A "Vulnerable code not present"
6.1-bookworm-security N/A "Vulnerable code not present"
6.1-upstream-stable N/A "Vulnerable code not present"
6.6-upstream-stable unknown
6.8-upstream-stable unknown
sid needed
upstream needed