CVE-2023-52931 Affecting kernel-default package, versions <5.14.21-150500.55.103.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.01% (2nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES155-KERNELDEFAULT-10224596
  • published22 May 2025
  • disclosed21 May 2025

Introduced: 21 May 2025

NewCVE-2023-52931  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:15.5 kernel-default to version 5.14.21-150500.55.103.1 or higher.

NVD Description

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

drm/i915: Avoid potential vm use-after-free

Adding the vm to the vm_xa table makes it visible to userspace, which could try to race with us to close the vm. So we need to take our extra reference before putting it in the table.

(cherry picked from commit 99343c46d4e2b34c285d3d5f68ff04274c2f9fb4)

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1