Information Exposure Affecting kernel-syms-azure package, versions <6.4.0-150600.8.20.1
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Test your applications- Snyk IDSNYK-SLES156-KERNELSYMSAZURE-8504246
- published14 Dec 2024
- disclosed13 Dec 2024
Introduced: 13 Dec 2024
NewCVE-2024-50102 (opens in a new tab)How to fix?
Upgrade SLES:15.6 kernel-syms-azure to version 6.4.0-150600.8.20.1 or higher.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-syms-azure package and not the kernel-syms-azure package as distributed by SLES.
See How to fix? for SLES:15.6 relevant fixed versions and status.
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
x86: fix user address masking non-canonical speculation issue
It turns out that AMD has a "Meltdown Lite(tm)" issue with non-canonical accesses in kernel space. And so using just the high bit to decide whether an access is in user space or kernel space ends up with the good old "leak speculative data" if you have the right gadget using the result:
CVE-2020-12965 “Transient Execution of Non-Canonical Accesses“
Now, the kernel surrounds the access with a STAC/CLAC pair, and those instructions end up serializing execution on older Zen architectures, which closes the speculation window.
But that was true only up until Zen 5, which renames the AC bit [1]. That improves performance of STAC/CLAC a lot, but also means that the speculation window is now open.
Note that this affects not just the new address masking, but also the regular valid_user_address() check used by access_ok(), and the asm version of the sign bit check in the get_user() helpers.
It does not affect put_user() or clear_user() variants, since there's no speculative result to be used in a gadget for those operations.