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CVE-2023-52640 (GCVE-0-2023-52640)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-04-03 17:00 – Updated: 2026-08-05 09:10
VLAI
Title
fs/ntfs3: Fix oob in ntfs_listxattr
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: fs/ntfs3: Fix oob in ntfs_listxattr The length of name cannot exceed the space occupied by ea.
Severity
7.1 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2024-09-10 15:52 UTC
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: 4534a70b7056fd4b9a1c6db5a4ce3c98546b291e , < a585faf0591548fe0920641950ebfa8a6eefe1cd (git)
Affected: 4534a70b7056fd4b9a1c6db5a4ce3c98546b291e , < 6ed6cdbe88334ca3430c5aee7754dc4597498dfb (git)
Affected: 4534a70b7056fd4b9a1c6db5a4ce3c98546b291e , < 52fff5799e3d1b5803ecd2f5f19c13c65f4f7b23 (git)
Affected: 4534a70b7056fd4b9a1c6db5a4ce3c98546b291e , < 0830c5cf19bdec50d0ede4755ddc463663deb21c (git)
Affected: 4534a70b7056fd4b9a1c6db5a4ce3c98546b291e , < 731ab1f9828800df871c5a7ab9ffe965317d3f15 (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 5.15
Unaffected: 0 , < 5.15 (semver)
Unaffected: 5.15.150 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.1.80 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.6.19 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.7.7 , ≤ 6.7.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.8 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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