Off-by-one Error in Memory Allocation Leading to Out-of-bounds Access in ksmbd

Off-by-one Error in Memory Allocation Leading to Out-of-bounds Access in ksmbd

CVE-2023-38429 · CRITICAL Severity

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

An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel before 6.3.4. fs/ksmbd/connection.c in ksmbd has an off-by-one error in memory allocation (because of ksmbd_smb2_check_message) that may lead to out-of-bounds access.

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