CVE-2023-45862

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2023-10-14 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-770

Description

An issue was discovered in drivers/usb/storage/ene_ub6250.c for the ENE UB6250 reader driver in the Linux kernel before 6.2.5. An object could potentially extend beyond the end of an allocation.

Affected products

Linux kernel: before 6.2.5 — fixed in 6.2.5
Active IQ Unified Manager for VMware vSphere, Linux, and Microsoft Windows: all versions
NetApp H410C Firmware: all versions

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Linux kernel 6.2.5. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v6.x/ChangeLog-6.2.5
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=ce33e64c1788912976b61314b56935abd4bc97ef
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20231116-0004/
https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v6.x/ChangeLog-6.2.5
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=ce33e64c1788912976b61314b56935abd4bc97ef
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20231116-0004/

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