# CVE-2023-38427: An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel before 6.3.8.

- Severity: CVSS 9.8 (Critical), CISA-ADP
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=yes, technicalImpact=total
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2023-07-17 · Updated: 2025-05-05

## Affected

- n/a: version range not reported

## Description

An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel before 6.3.8. fs/smb/server/smb2pdu.c in ksmbd has an integer underflow and out-of-bounds read in deassemble_neg_contexts.

## What to do

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## References

- https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/fs/smb/server?id=f1a411873c85b642f13b01f21b534c2bab81fc1b
- https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v6.x/ChangeLog-6.3.8
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20230824-0011/

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