Insecure Default Initialization of Resource Affecting kernel-devel package, versions <5.3.18-150300.59.121.2


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.05% (18th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES153-KERNELDEVEL-5507494
  • published10 May 2023
  • disclosed9 May 2023

Introduced: 9 May 2023

CVE-2022-2196  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-1188  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:15.3 kernel-devel to version 5.3.18-150300.59.121.2 or higher.

NVD Description

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

A regression exists in the Linux Kernel within KVM: nVMX that allowed for speculative execution attacks. L2 can carry out Spectre v2 attacks on L1 due to L1 thinking it doesn't need retpolines or IBPB after running L2 due to KVM (L0) advertising eIBRS support to L1. An attacker at L2 with code execution can execute code on an indirect branch on the host machine. We recommend upgrading to Kernel 6.2 or past commit 2e7eab81425a

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