Use After Free Affecting kernel-livepatch-5_3_18-150200_24_148-default package, versions <2-150200.2.3


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

Based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.31% (22nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES152-KERNELLIVEPATCH531815020024148DEFAULT-6591985
  • published8 Apr 2024
  • disclosed6 Jun 2023

Introduced: 6 Jun 2023

CVE-2023-1872  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-416  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:15.2 kernel-livepatch-5_3_18-150200_24_148-default to version 2-150200.2.3 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-livepatch-5_3_18-150200_24_148-default package and not the kernel-livepatch-5_3_18-150200_24_148-default package as distributed by SLES. See How to fix? for SLES:15.2 relevant fixed versions and status.

A use-after-free vulnerability in the Linux Kernel io_uring system can be exploited to achieve local privilege escalation.

The io_file_get_fixed function lacks the presence of ctx->uring_lock which can lead to a Use-After-Free vulnerability due a race condition with fixed files getting unregistered.

We recommend upgrading past commit da24142b1ef9fd5d36b76e36bab328a5b27523e8.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1