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Mageia 8 MGASA-2023-0243 Severe: Kernel Access Rights Threat

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Calendar Grey July 26, 2023
Dist Mageia Esm H88
The recent kernel-linus patch in Mageia tackles critical vulnerabilities that could lead to serious data leaks and unauthorized privilege elevation.
This kernel-linus update is based on upstream 5.15.122 and fixes atleast the following security issues: Under specific microarchitectural circumstances, a register in "Zen 2" CPUs...

Summary

This kernel-linus update is based on upstream 5.15.122 and fixes atleast the following security issues:
Under specific microarchitectural circumstances, a register in "Zen 2" CPUs may not be written to 0 correctly. This may cause data from another process and/or thread to be stored in the YMM register, which may allow an attacker to potentially access sensitive information (CVE-2023-20593, also known as Zenbleed).
This update adds a kernel-side mitigation for this issue to protect users until Amd gets their fixed microcode / AGESA updates out for all affected CPUs. The fixed microcode for Amd EPYC gen2 is available in the microcode-0.20230613-2.mga8.nonfree package. For other affected CPUs, see the referenced amd.com url that has info about estimated microcode update timelines for various CPUs.
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References

- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=32140

- https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v5.x/ChangeLog-5.15.121

- https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v5.x/ChangeLog-5.15.122

- https://www.amd.com/en/resources/product-security/bulletin/amd-sb-7008.html

- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-20593

- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-31248

- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-35001

Resolution

SRPMS

- 8/core/kernel-linus-5.15.122-1.mga8

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Publication date: 26 Jul 2023
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2023-0243.html
Type: security
CVE: CVE-2023-20593, CVE-2023-31248, CVE-2023-35001

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