Information Exposure The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package kernel-obs-qa  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES150-KERNELOBSQA-2722224
  • published14 Apr 2022
  • disclosed23 Dec 2019

Introduced: 23 Dec 2019

CVE-2019-18660  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-200  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The SLES security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for SLES:15.0.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-obs-qa package and not the kernel-obs-qa package as distributed by SLES.

The Linux kernel before 5.4.1 on powerpc allows Information Exposure because the Spectre-RSB mitigation is not in place for all applicable CPUs, aka CID-39e72bf96f58. This is related to arch/powerpc/kernel/entry_64.S and arch/powerpc/kernel/security.c.