Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2023-54257

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available. - net: macb: fix a memory corruption in extended buffer descriptor mode For quite some time we were chasing a bug which looked like a sudden permanent failure of...

UBUNTU-CVE-2023-54257

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: macb: fix a memory corruption in extended buffer descriptor mode For quite some time we were chasing a bug which looked like a sudden permanent failure of networking and mmc on some of our devices. The bug was very sensitive...

CVE-2023-54257

CVE-2023-54257 affects the Linux kernel net/macb driver. The issue is memory corruption in extended buffer descriptor mode, tied to RX/DMA handling (CONFIG_DMA_API_DEBUG=y reveals unmaps/free of DMA memory not allocated). A fix has been released in the Linux kernel (refs include upstream commits ...