CVE-2023-28772 (GCVE-0-2023-28772)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2023-03-23 00:00 – Updated: 2025-05-05 16:02
VLAI?
Summary
An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel before 5.13.3. lib/seq_buf.c has a seq_buf_putmem_hex buffer overflow.
Severity ?
6.7 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
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