Information Exposure Affecting kernel-syms package, versions <4.12.14-197.29.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.11% (47th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES151-KERNELSYMS-3255120
  • published14 Apr 2022
  • disclosed17 Dec 2019

Introduced: 17 Dec 2019

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

How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:15.1 kernel-syms to version 4.12.14-197.29.1 or higher.

NVD Description

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

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.

CVSS Scores

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