CVE-2023-52576 Affecting kernel-azure package, versions <5.14.21-150500.33.48.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.05% (18th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES155-KERNELAZURE-6808113
  • published4 May 2024
  • disclosed3 May 2024

Introduced: 3 May 2024

CVE-2023-52576  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:15.5 kernel-azure to version 5.14.21-150500.33.48.1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-azure package and not the kernel-azure 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:

x86/mm, kexec, ima: Use memblock_free_late() from ima_free_kexec_buffer()

The code calling ima_free_kexec_buffer() runs long after the memblock allocator has already been torn down, potentially resulting in a use after free in memblock_isolate_range().

With KASAN or KFENCE, this use after free will result in a BUG from the idle task, and a subsequent kernel panic.

Switch ima_free_kexec_buffer() over to memblock_free_late() to avoid that bug.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1