# CVE-2023-38426: An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel before 6.3.4.

- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2023-07-17 · Updated: 2024-08-02

## Affected

- n/a: version range not reported

## Description

An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel before 6.3.4. ksmbd has an out-of-bounds read in smb2_find_context_vals when create_context's name_len is larger than the tag length.

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## References

- https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v6.x/ChangeLog-6.3.4
- https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/fs/ksmbd?id=02f76c401d17e409ed45bf7887148fcc22c93c85
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20230915-0010/

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