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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2023-52434" idYear: 2023 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2024-02-20T18:04:44.006Z" updatedAt: "2026-08-05T09:09:53.429Z" importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:57:03.413Z" snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"} url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2023-52434" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2023-52434.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-52434" title: "smb: client: fix potential OOBs in smb2_parse_contexts()" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nsmb: client: fix potential OOBs in smb2_parse_contexts()\n\nValidate offsets and lengths before dereferencing create contexts in\nsmb2_parse_contexts().\n\nThis fixes following oops when accessing invalid create contexts from\nserver:\n\n BUG: unable to handle page fault for address: ffff8881178d8cc3\n #PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode\n #PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page\n PGD 4a01067 P4D 4a01067 PUD 0\n Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP NOPTI\n CPU: 3 PID: 1736 Comm: mount.cifs Not tainted 6.7.0-rc4 #1\n Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS\n rel-1.16.2-3-gd478f380-rebuilt.opensuse.org 04/01/2014\n RIP: 0010:smb2_parse_contexts+0xa0/0x3a0 [cifs]\n Code: f8 10 75 13 48 b8 93 ad 25 50 9c b4 11 e7 49 39 06 0f 84 d2 00\n 00 00 8b 45 00 85 c0 74 61 41 29 c5 48 01 c5 41 83 fd 0f 76 55 \u003c0f\u003e b7\n 7d 04 0f b7 45 06 4c 8d 74 3d 00 66 83 f8 04 75 bc ba 04 00\n RSP: 0018:ffffc900007939e0 EFLAGS: 00010216\n RAX: ffffc90000793c78 RBX: ffff8880180cc000 RCX: ffffc90000793c90\n RDX: ffffc90000793cc0 RSI: ffff8880178d8cc0 RDI: ffff8880180cc000\n RBP: ffff8881178d8cbf R08: ffffc90000793c22 R09: 0000000000000000\n R10: ffff8880180cc000 R11: 0000000000000024 R12: 0000000000000000\n R13: 0000000000000020 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: ffffc90000793c22\n FS: 00007f873753cbc0(0000) GS:ffff88806bc00000(0000)\n knlGS:0000000000000000\n CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033\n CR2: ffff8881178d8cc3 CR3: 00000000181ca000 CR4: 0000000000750ef0\n PKRU: 55555554\n Call Trace:\n \u003cTASK\u003e\n ? __die+0x23/0x70\n ? page_fault_oops+0x181/0x480\n ? search_module_extables+0x19/0x60\n ? srso_alias_return_thunk+0x5/0xfbef5\n ? exc_page_fault+0x1b6/0x1c0\n ? asm_exc_page_fault+0x26/0x30\n ? smb2_parse_contexts+0xa0/0x3a0 [cifs]\n SMB2_open+0x38d/0x5f0 [cifs]\n ? smb2_is_path_accessible+0x138/0x260 [cifs]\n smb2_is_path_accessible+0x138/0x260 [cifs]\n cifs_is_path_remote+0x8d/0x230 [cifs]\n cifs_mount+0x7e/0x350 [cifs]\n cifs_smb3_do_mount+0x128/0x780 [cifs]\n smb3_get_tree+0xd9/0x290 [cifs]\n vfs_get_tree+0x2c/0x100\n ? capable+0x37/0x70\n path_mount+0x2d7/0xb80\n ? srso_alias_return_thunk+0x5/0xfbef5\n ? _raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x44/0x60\n __x64_sys_mount+0x11a/0x150\n do_syscall_64+0x47/0xf0\n entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x6f/0x77\n RIP: 0033:0x7f8737657b1e" affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"b8c32dbb0deb287a5fcb78251e4eae6c7275760d","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"6726429c18c62dbf5e96ebbd522f262e016553fb"},{"version":"b8c32dbb0deb287a5fcb78251e4eae6c7275760d","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"13fb0fc4917621f3dfa285a27eaf7151d770b5e5"},{"version":"b8c32dbb0deb287a5fcb78251e4eae6c7275760d","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"890bc4fac3c0973a49cac35f634579bebba7fe48"},{"version":"b8c32dbb0deb287a5fcb78251e4eae6c7275760d","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"1ae3c59355dc9882e09c020afe8ffbd895ad0f29"},{"version":"b8c32dbb0deb287a5fcb78251e4eae6c7275760d","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"17a0f64cc02d4972e21c733d9f21d1c512963afa"},{"version":"b8c32dbb0deb287a5fcb78251e4eae6c7275760d","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"af1689a9b7701d9907dfc84d2a4b57c4bc907144"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"3.7","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"3.7"},{"version":"5.4.277","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.4.*"},{"version":"5.10.211","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.150","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.79","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.8","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.7","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}] ## Source licences and attribution CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities: https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog (US government work) GitHub Advisory Database: https://github.com/advisories (CC BY 4.0) Have I Been Pwned: https://haveibeenpwned.com/ (CC BY 4.0) CVE Program (CVE records): https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse (CVE Terms of Use) Copyright © 1999-2026, The MITRE Corporation. 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