CVE-2020-10766 Affecting kernel-default-base package, versions <5.3.18-24.9.1.9.2.6


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.09% (39th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES152-KERNELDEFAULTBASE-2706845
  • published14 Apr 2022
  • disclosed3 Aug 2020

Introduced: 3 Aug 2020

CVE-2020-10766  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:15.2 kernel-default-base to version 5.3.18-24.9.1.9.2.6 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-default-base package and not the kernel-default-base package as distributed by SLES. See How to fix? for SLES:15.2 relevant fixed versions and status.

A logic bug flaw was found in Linux kernel before 5.8-rc1 in the implementation of SSBD. A bug in the logic handling allows an attacker with a local account to disable SSBD protection during a context switch when additional speculative execution mitigations are in place. This issue was introduced when the per task/process conditional STIPB switching was added on top of the existing SSBD switching. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to confidentiality.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1