Improper Privilege Management Affecting kernel-preempt package, versions <5.3.18-150300.59.60.4


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

Based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.04% (15th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES153-KERNELPREEMPT-2640957
  • published14 Apr 2022
  • disclosed30 Mar 2022

Introduced: 30 Mar 2022

CVE-2022-25636  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-269  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:15.3 kernel-preempt to version 5.3.18-150300.59.60.4 or higher.

NVD Description

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

net/netfilter/nf_dup_netdev.c in the Linux kernel 5.4 through 5.6.10 allows local users to gain privileges because of a heap out-of-bounds write. This is related to nf_tables_offload.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1