Exposure of Resource to Wrong Sphere Affecting kernel-default-devel package, versions <5.3.18-150300.59.87.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.07% (33rd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES153-KERNELDEFAULTDEVEL-2960767
  • published27 Jul 2022
  • disclosed26 Jul 2022

Introduced: 26 Jul 2022

CVE-2022-29901  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-668  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:15.3 kernel-default-devel to version 5.3.18-150300.59.87.1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-default-devel package and not the kernel-default-devel package as distributed by SLES. See How to fix? for SLES:15.3 relevant fixed versions and status.

Intel microprocessor generations 6 to 8 are affected by a new Spectre variant that is able to bypass their retpoline mitigation in the kernel to leak arbitrary data. An attacker with unprivileged user access can hijack return instructions to achieve arbitrary speculative code execution under certain microarchitecture-dependent conditions.

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