# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2023-52618"
idYear: 2023
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2024-03-18T10:19:05.275Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T19:30:27.977Z"
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-2023-52618"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2023-52618.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-52618"
title: "block/rnbd-srv: Check for unlikely string overflow"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nblock/rnbd-srv: Check for unlikely string overflow\n\nSince \"dev_search_path\" can technically be as large as PATH_MAX,\nthere was a risk of truncation when copying it and a second string\ninto \"full_path\" since it was also PATH_MAX sized. The W=1 builds were\nreporting this warning:\n\ndrivers/block/rnbd/rnbd-srv.c: In function 'process_msg_open.isra':\ndrivers/block/rnbd/rnbd-srv.c:616:51: warning: '%s' directive output may be truncated writing up to 254 bytes into a region of size between 0 and 4095 [-Wformat-truncation=]\n  616 |                 snprintf(full_path, PATH_MAX, \"%s/%s\",\n      |                                                   ^~\nIn function 'rnbd_srv_get_full_path',\n    inlined from 'process_msg_open.isra' at drivers/block/rnbd/rnbd-srv.c:721:14: drivers/block/rnbd/rnbd-srv.c:616:17: note: 'snprintf' output between 2 and 4351 bytes into a destination of size 4096\n  616 |                 snprintf(full_path, PATH_MAX, \"%s/%s\",\n      |                 ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~\n  617 |                          dev_search_path, dev_name);\n      |                          ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~\n\nTo fix this, unconditionally check for truncation (as was already done\nfor the case where \"%SESSNAME%\" was present)."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"2de6c8de192b9341ffa5e84afe1ce6196d4eef41","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"95bc866c11974d3e4a9d922275ea8127ff809cf7"},{"version":"2de6c8de192b9341ffa5e84afe1ce6196d4eef41","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"f6abd5e17da33eba15df2bddc93413e76c2b55f7"},{"version":"2de6c8de192b9341ffa5e84afe1ce6196d4eef41","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"af7bbdac89739e2e7380387fda598848d3b7010f"},{"version":"2de6c8de192b9341ffa5e84afe1ce6196d4eef41","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"5b9ea86e662035a886ccb5c76d56793cba618827"},{"version":"2de6c8de192b9341ffa5e84afe1ce6196d4eef41","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"a2c6206f18104fba7f887bf4dbbfe4c41adc4339"},{"version":"2de6c8de192b9341ffa5e84afe1ce6196d4eef41","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"9e4bf6a08d1e127bcc4bd72557f2dfafc6bc7f41"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"5.8","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.8"},{"version":"5.10.210","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.149","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.77","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.16","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.7.4","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.7.*"},{"version":"6.8","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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