Release of Invalid Pointer or Reference Affecting kernel-default-man package, versions <4.12.14-150100.197.154.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.04% (11th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES151-KERNELDEFAULTMAN-5856027
  • published24 Aug 2023
  • disclosed23 Aug 2023

Introduced: 23 Aug 2023

CVE-2023-0459  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-763  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:15.1 kernel-default-man to version 4.12.14-150100.197.154.1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-default-man package and not the kernel-default-man package as distributed by SLES. See How to fix? for SLES:15.1 relevant fixed versions and status.

Copy_from_user on 64-bit versions of the Linux kernel does not implement the __uaccess_begin_nospec allowing a user to bypass the "access_ok" check and pass a kernel pointer to copy_from_user(). This would allow an attacker to leak information. We recommend upgrading beyond commit 74e19ef0ff8061ef55957c3abd71614ef0f42f47

CVSS Scores

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