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NTAP-20250103-0009 — CVE-2023-38429 Linux Kernel Vulnerability in NetApp Products

Published 2025-01-03 · Updated 2026-03-05 · Status: Final · Exploitation: Public · Severity: CRITICAL 9.8 · ONTAP affected: Yes

Official advisory: NTAP-20250103-0009 on security.netapp.com ↗. Affected versions, fixed releases, and workarounds live there — this page is a summary.

Product family: SolidFire / NetApp HCI · ONTAP | ONTAP-relevant | highest CVSS: 9.8

CVEs in this advisory

CVE-2023-38429 — CRITICAL · CVSS 9.8 · site index

What the CVE records say

CVE-2023-38429 — An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel before 6.3.4. fs/ksmbd/connection.c in ksmbd has an off-by-one error in memory allocation (because of ksmbd_smb2_check_message) that may lead to out-of-bounds access.

Impact

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could lead to disclosure of sensitive information, addition or modification of data, or Denial of Service (DoS).

Affected products

NetApp HCI Baseboard Management Controller (BMC) - H300S/H500S/H700S/H410S
NetApp HCI Baseboard Management Controller (BMC) - H410C
NetApp HCI Compute Node (Bootstrap OS)
ONTAP Select Deploy administration utility
ONTAP tools for VMware vSphere 10

Official fixes

ONTAP Select Deploy administration utility — vendor fix ↗
ONTAP tools for VMware vSphere 10 — vendor fix ↗

References

https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v6.x/ChangeLog-6.3.4 ↗

What to do

Check the affected products listed above against the official advisory's affected-versions table — that is where the exact ONTAP 9 release, ONTAP tool, or management product versions are named.
If affected and a fixed release exists, plan the upgrade — see the ONTAP upgrade runbook.
If exploitation is listed as "active", treat remediation as urgent and review exposure (management LIFs, ONTAP S3, SnapMirror endpoints).
Harden in parallel: security hardening baseline and ransomware protection on ONTAP.