CVE-2023-52429

MEDIUM

Linux Kernel < 5.10.210 - Improper Condition Check

Title source: rule

Description

dm_table_create in drivers/md/dm-table.c in the Linux kernel through 6.7.4 can attempt to (in alloc_targets) allocate more than INT_MAX bytes, and crash, because of a missing check for struct dm_ioctl.target_count.

References (7)

[Patch, Vendor Advisory] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=bd504bcfec41a503b32054da5472904b404341a4

[Mailing List] https://www.spinics.net/lists/dm-devel/msg56625.html

[Mailing List, Third Party Advisory] https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/3LZROQAX7Q7LEP4F7WQ3KUZKWCZGFFP2/

[Mailing List, Third Party Advisory] https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/GS7S3XLTLOUKBXV67LLFZWB3YVFJZHRK/

[Mailing List, Third Party Advisory] https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/3LZROQAX7Q7LEP4F7WQ3KUZKWCZGFFP2/

[Mailing List] https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/06/msg00017.html

[Mailing List] https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/06/msg00020.html

Scores

CVSS v3 5.5

EPSS 0.0003

EPSS Percentile 7.0%

Attack Vector LOCAL

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

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment

Exploitation none

Automatable no

Technical Impact partial

Details

CWE

CWE-754 CWE-789

Status published

Products (3)

fedoraproject/fedora 38

fedoraproject/fedora 39

linux/linux_kernel < 5.10.210

Published Feb 12, 2024

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026