CVE intelligence

CVE-2023-45896

Vulnerability intelligence

Published Aug 28, 2024Sources checked Oct 28, 2026

7.1HIGHCVSS out of 10

What this means

Review the available evidence

CVE-2023-45896 and is rated High severity with a CVSS score of 7.1. It is not in the current CISA KEV record we collected. That does not prove exploitation has not occurred.

What to do next

Remediation and response

Ubuntu Security Notices guidance

Vendor revision: Sep 21, 2026

Vendor remediation details

This update corrects flaws in the following subsystems: - ARM32 architecture; - ARM64 architecture; - MIPS architecture; - PowerPC architecture; - S390 architecture; - x86 architecture; - Block layer subsystem; - Cryptographic API; - ACPI drivers; - ATM drivers; - Drivers core; - Power management core; - DRBD Distributed Replicated Block Device drivers; - RNBD block device driver; - Bluetooth drivers; - Bus devices; - Character device driver; - TPM device driver; - Clocksource drivers; - Data acquisition framework and drivers; - CPU frequency scaling framework; - CPU idle management framework; - Hardware crypto device drivers; - DMA engine subsystem; - Arm Firmware Framework for ARMv8-A(FFA); - EFI core; - GPIO subsystem; - GPU drivers; - HID subsystem; - Hardware monitoring drivers; - I2C

Ubuntu Security Notices guidance

Vendor revision: Aug 21, 2026

Vendor remediation details

CISA KEVNot listedBased on the latest collected catalog

EPSS0.2%Estimated 30-day exploitation probability

Ransomware useNot markedCISA KEV ransomware field

Threat actors0Source-linked actor relationships

Overview

What is CVE-2023-45896?

ntfs3 in the Linux kernel through 6.8.0 allows a physically proximate attacker to read kernel memory by mounting a filesystem (e.g., if a Linux distribution is configured to allow unprivileged mounts of removable media) and then leveraging local access to trigger an out-of-bounds read. A length value can be larger than the amount of memory allocated.

NOTE: the supplier's perspective is that there is no vulnerability when an attack requires an attacker-modified filesystem image.

Source: NVD