Information Exposure The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package kernel-debug-debuginfo (opens in a new tab)
Threat Intelligence
Exploit Maturity
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Proof of Concept
EPSS
The probability is the direct output of the EPSS model, and conveys an overall sense of the threat of exploitation in the wild. The percentile measures the EPSS probability relative to all known EPSS scores. Note: This data is updated daily, relying on the latest available EPSS model version. Check out the EPSS documentation for more details.
94.27% (100th percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL10-KERNELDEBUGDEBUGINFO-9844352
- published28 Apr 2025
- disclosed1 Jan 2017
Introduced: 1 Jan 2017
CVE-2017-5753 (opens in a new tab)Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) are common identifiers for publicly known security vulnerabilities
Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE) is a category system for software weaknesses
Amendment
The Red Hat security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for RHEL:10.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-debug-debuginfo package and not the kernel-debug-debuginfo package as distributed by RHEL.
Systems with microprocessors utilizing speculative execution and branch prediction may allow unauthorized disclosure of information to an attacker with local user access via a side-channel analysis.
References
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1519778
- https://access.redhat.com/security/vulnerabilities/speculativeexecution
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- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0292
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- https://cert.vde.com/en-us/advisories/vde-2018-003
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- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/03/msg00034.html
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- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3540-2/
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3541-1/
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3541-2/
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3542-1/
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3542-2/
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3549-1/
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3580-1/
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3597-1/
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3597-2/
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-3516-1/
- https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4187
- https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4188
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/43427/
- https://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/180049
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- https://www.synology.com/support/security/Synology_SA_18_01
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