CVE-2023-53000 Affecting cluster-md-kmp-default package, versions <5.14.21-150500.55.100.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.02% (5th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES155-CLUSTERMDKMPDEFAULT-9704454
  • published15 Apr 2025
  • disclosed14 Apr 2025

Introduced: 14 Apr 2025

NewCVE-2023-53000  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:15.5 cluster-md-kmp-default to version 5.14.21-150500.55.100.1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream cluster-md-kmp-default package and not the cluster-md-kmp-default package as distributed by SLES. See How to fix? for SLES:15.5 relevant fixed versions and status.

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

netlink: prevent potential spectre v1 gadgets

Most netlink attributes are parsed and validated from __nla_validate_parse() or validate_nla()

u16 type = nla_type(nla);

if (type == 0 || type &gt; maxtype) { /* error or continue */ }

@type is then used as an array index and can be used as a Spectre v1 gadget.

array_index_nospec() can be used to prevent leaking content of kernel memory to malicious users.

This should take care of vast majority of netlink uses, but an audit is needed to take care of others where validation is not yet centralized in core netlink functions.

CVSS Base Scores

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