Memory Leak Affecting kernel-azure-devel package, versions <5.14.21-150400.14.40.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.04% (6th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES154-KERNELAZUREDEVEL-5291990
  • published29 Mar 2023
  • disclosed28 Mar 2023

Introduced: 28 Mar 2023

CVE-2023-0597  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-401  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:15.4 kernel-azure-devel to version 5.14.21-150400.14.40.1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-azure-devel package and not the kernel-azure-devel package as distributed by SLES. See How to fix? for SLES:15.4 relevant fixed versions and status.

A flaw possibility of memory leak in the Linux kernel cpu_entry_area mapping of X86 CPU data to memory was found in the way user can guess location of exception stack(s) or other important data. A local user could use this flaw to get access to some important data with expected location in memory.

CVSS Scores

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