CVE-2023-6536 is a NULL pointer dereference in the Linux kernel NVMe target driver's NVMe-over-Fabrics TCP request-completion path, specifically __nvmet_req_complete. Crafted NVMe-oF/TCP packets can cause the vulnerable completion handling to dereference a NULL pointer.
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Linux kernel NULL-pointer dereference in __nvmet_req_complete().
NULL-pointer dereference vulnerability in Linux kernel __nvmet_req_complete.
NULL-pointer dereference vulnerability in the Linux kernel NVMe target request-completion path.
Linux kernel NULL-pointer dereference in the NVMe target __nvmet_req_complete function.
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