Exposure of Resource to Wrong Sphere Affecting ocfs2-kmp-default package, versions <5.14.21-150400.24.11.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.07% (33rd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES154-OCFS2KMPDEFAULT-2959049
  • published22 Jul 2022
  • disclosed21 Jul 2022

Introduced: 21 Jul 2022

CVE-2022-29901  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-668  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:15.4 ocfs2-kmp-default to version 5.14.21-150400.24.11.1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream ocfs2-kmp-default package and not the ocfs2-kmp-default package as distributed by SLES. See How to fix? for SLES:15.4 relevant fixed versions and status.

Intel microprocessor generations 6 to 8 are affected by a new Spectre variant that is able to bypass their retpoline mitigation in the kernel to leak arbitrary data. An attacker with unprivileged user access can hijack return instructions to achieve arbitrary speculative code execution under certain microarchitecture-dependent conditions.

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