SB2021082529 - SUSE update for the Linux Kernel (Live Patch 36 for SLE 12 SP3)
Published: August 25, 2021
Breakdown by Severity
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Description
This security bulletin contains information about 2 vulnerabilities.
1) Race condition (CVE-ID: CVE-2021-3609)
CWE-ID: CWE-362 - Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization ('Race Condition')
CVSSv4: CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:P/U:Green
The vulnerability allows a local user to escalate privileges on the system.
The vulnerability exists due to a race condition in the CAN BCM networking protocol (net/can/bcm.c) in the Linux kernel ranging from version 2.6.25 to mainline 5.13-rc6. A local user can exploit the race and gain unauthorized access to sensitive information and escalate privileges on the system.
2) Out-of-bounds write (CVE-ID: CVE-2021-37576)
CWE-ID: CWE-787 - Out-of-bounds write
CVSSv4: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:H/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Green
The vulnerability allows a remote user to escalate privileges on the system.
The vulnerability exists due to a boundary error in arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_rtas.c in the Linux kernel through 5.13.5 on the powerpc platform. An attacker on KVM guest OS can cause host OS memory corruption via rtas_args.nargs and execute arbitrary code on the host OS.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.