mdadm

Intel’s security advisory last year quietly tied a confusingly named component to a simple but real availability risk: an uncontrolled resource consumption bug in certain Intel® SSD Tools distributions — specifically those shipping an upstream mdadm build older than mdadm-4.2-rc2 — can allow a...

A buffer‑overflow flaw in Intel’s SSD Tools integration with the mdadm utility — tracked as CVE‑2023‑28736 — quietly landed on security lists in August 2023 and remains a textbook case in how a locally‑triggered memory corruption in low‑level storage tooling can produce outsized operational risk...