PT-2021-7963 · Mdadm+3 · Mdadm+3

Nimish Verma · CVE-2023-28938 · Published 2021-07-27 · Updated 2023-10-05

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

4.4

Medium

Base vector

AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Mdadm versions prior to 4.2-rc2

Description The issue is related to uncontrolled resource consumption in the Mdadm utility for managing RAID arrays. This could allow an attacker to cause a denial of service via local access. A privileged user may potentially exploit this issue.

Recommendations For versions prior to 4.2-rc2, update to version 4.2-rc2 or later to resolve the issue. As a temporary workaround, consider restricting local access to the Mdadm utility to minimize the risk of exploitation.

Fix

DoS

Resource Exhaustion

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-400

Related Identifiers

AZL-27937

AZL-34975

BDU:2023-07643

CVE-2023-28938

OESA-2023-1647

OESA-2023-1648

OESA-2023-1649

OPENSUSE-SU-2023_3953-1

SUSE-SU-2023:3691-1

SUSE-SU-2023:3953-1

Affected Products

Astra Linux

Debian

Mdadm

Suse

References · 36

• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2023-28938 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2023-28938 · Vendor Advisory
• https://wiki.astralinux.ru/astra-linux-se47-bulletin-2024-0416SE47 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2023-28938 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-28938 · Security Note
• http://intel.com/content/www/us/en/security-center/advisory/intel-sa-00690.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2023-28938 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/AZL-34975 · Vendor Advisory
• https://wiki.astralinux.ru/astra-linux-se17-bulletin-2023-1023SE17 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-28938 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2023-28938 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/OESA-2023-1649 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/SUSE-SU-2023:3953-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/OESA-2023-1647 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/SUSE-SU-2023:3691-1 · Vendor Advisory