Use of a Broken or Risky Cryptographic Algorithm Affecting kernel-default-livepatch package, versions <5.3.18-59.40.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
low
0
10

Based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.05% (20th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES153-KERNELDEFAULTLIVEPATCH-2651068
  • published14 Apr 2022
  • disclosed19 Jan 2022

Introduced: 19 Jan 2022

CVE-2021-45486  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-327  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:15.3 kernel-default-livepatch to version 5.3.18-59.40.1 or higher.

NVD Description

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

In the IPv4 implementation in the Linux kernel before 5.12.4, net/ipv4/route.c has an information leak because the hash table is very small.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1