CVE-2023-34319 — Out-of-bounds Write in Kernel
Severity
7.8HIGHNVD
OSV7.0OSV6.5OSV5.7OSV5.5
EPSS
0.0%
top 98.52%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedSep 22
Latest updateOct 1
Description
The fix for XSA-423 added logic to Linux'es netback driver to deal with
a frontend splitting a packet in a way such that not all of the headers
would come in one piece. Unfortunately the logic introduced there
didn't account for the extreme case of the entire packet being split
into as many pieces as permitted by the protocol, yet still being
smaller than the area that's specially dealt with to keep all (possible)
headers together. Such an unusual packet would therefore trigger a
buffer overrun …
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HExploitability: 1.8 | Impact: 5.9
Affected Packages5 packages
Also affects: Debian Linux 10.0
Patches
🔴Vulnerability Details
22GHSA▶
GHSA-79f3-76v5-g4m8: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
xen/netback: Fix buffer overrun triggered by unusual packet
It is possible that↗2025-10-01