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medium 5.7

CVE-2023-28736 json

Buffer overflow in some Intel(R) SSD Tools software before version mdadm-4.2-rc2 may allow a privileged user to potentially enable escalati…

published 2023-08-11 3 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2023-32374

cvss
5.7
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.2%
EPSS 0.2% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 12%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Buffer overflow in some Intel(R) SSD Tools software before version mdadm-4.2-rc2 may allow a privileged user to potentially enable escalation of privilege via local access.

Patch / fix

  • mdadm_project mdadm 4.2
  • mdadm Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 4.2-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2023-28736

  • mdadm SLE Module for Basesystem 15 SP4, SLE Micro 5.4, SLE Micro 5.3 +5 more 4.1-150300.24.33.1
  • mdadm SLES for SAP 12 SP5, SLES 12 SP5 4.1-4.29.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2023:3953-1SUSE-SU-2023:3691-1

  • mdadm CBL-Mariner 2.0 4.1-10
  • mdadm Azure Linux 3.0 4.2-1

azure linux advisories AZL-27938AZL-34974

Azure Linux vulnerability data, Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation, from https://github.com/microsoft/AzureLinuxVulnerabilityData via OSV, under the MIT licence; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. MIT

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2023-28736 updated cvss 5.7

mdadm: Buffer overflow

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 mdadm Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 mdadm Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 mdadm
    affected: no fix planned “Out of support scope”
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 mdadm
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
2 y ago

Exploit prediction

0.22% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 12% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.1 5.7 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L
NVD 3.1 6.7 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected products

  • n/a Intel(R) SSD Tools software

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-120 Buffer Copy without Checking Size of Input

References

Sources

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