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Missing Authorization The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package kernel-syms-rt  (opens in a new tab)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES152-KERNELSYMSRT-2695102
  • published14 Apr 2022
  • disclosed11 Dec 2020
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Introduced: 11 Dec 2020

CVE-2020-27777  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-862  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The SLES security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for SLES:15.2.

NVD Description

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

A flaw was found in the way RTAS handled memory accesses in userspace to kernel communication. On a locked down (usually due to Secure Boot) guest system running on top of PowerVM or KVM hypervisors (pseries platform) a root like local user could use this flaw to further increase their privileges to that of a running kernel.

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