CVE-2023-20592 Affecting kernel-firmware-brcm package, versions <20210208-150300.4.19.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.05% (24th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES153-KERNELFIRMWAREBRCM-6102821
  • published7 Dec 2023
  • disclosed6 Dec 2023

Introduced: 6 Dec 2023

CVE-2023-20592  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:15.3 kernel-firmware-brcm to version 20210208-150300.4.19.1 or higher.

NVD Description

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

Improper or unexpected behavior of the INVD instruction in some AMD CPUs may allow an attacker with a malicious hypervisor to affect cache line write-back behavior of the CPU leading to a potential loss of guest virtual machine (VM) memory integrity.

CVSS Scores

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