CVE-2023-52429

medium

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

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https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/GS7S3XLTLOUKBXV67LLFZWB3YVFJZHRK/

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/3LZROQAX7Q7LEP4F7WQ3KUZKWCZGFFP2/

https://www.spinics.net/lists/dm-devel/msg56625.html

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/3LZROQAX7Q7LEP4F7WQ3KUZKWCZGFFP2/

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/06/msg00020.html

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/06/msg00017.html

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=bd504bcfec41a503b32054da5472904b404341a4

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2024-02-12

Updated: 2025-11-04

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.6

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 5.5

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