Sensitive Information Uncleared Before Release Affecting kernel-rt-debug-devel package, versions <0:4.18.0-305.108.1.rt7.183.el8_4


Severity

Recommended
high

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.04% (6th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL8-KERNELRTDEBUGDEVEL-6004970
  • published29 Mar 2023
  • disclosed5 Apr 2022

Introduced: 5 Apr 2022

CVE-2023-1637  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-226  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-385  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-200  (opens in a new tab)
First added by Snyk

How to fix?

Upgrade RHEL:8 kernel-rt-debug-devel to version 0:4.18.0-305.108.1.rt7.183.el8_4 or higher.
This issue was patched in RHSA-2023:5794.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-rt-debug-devel package and not the kernel-rt-debug-devel package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:8 relevant fixed versions and status.

A flaw that boot CPU could be vulnerable for the speculative execution behavior kind of attacks in the Linux kernel X86 CPU Power management options functionality was found in the way user resuming CPU from suspend-to-RAM. A local user could use this flaw to potentially get unauthorized access to some memory of the CPU similar to the speculative execution behavior kind of attacks.

CVSS Scores

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