Potential security vulnerabilities in some Intel® SSD Tools software may allow escalation of privilege or denial of service. Intel is releasing software updates to mitigate these potential vulnerabilities.
CVEID: CVE-2023-28736
Description: Buffer overflow in some Intel® SSD Tools software before version mdadm-4.2-rc2 may allow a privileged user to potentially enable escalation of privilege via local access.
CVSS Base Score: 5.7 Medium
CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L
CVEID: CVE-2023-28938
Description: Uncontrolled resource consumption in some Intel® SSD Tools software before version mdadm-4.2-rc2 may allow a priviledged user to potentially enable denial of service via local access.
CVSS Base Score: 3.4 Low
CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:L
Intel® SSD Tools software before version mdadm-4.2-rc2.
Intel recommends updating Intel® SSD Tools software to version mdadm-4.2-rc2 or later.
Updates are available for download at this location:
<https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/utils/mdadm/mdadm.git>
These issues were found internally by an Intel employee. Intel would like to thank Nimish Verma.
Intel, and nearly the entire technology industry, follows a disclosure practice called Coordinated Disclosure, under which a cybersecurity vulnerability is generally publicly disclosed only after mitigations are available.