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SUSE 15 SP2: 2024:2944-1 Important: CVE-2023-31315 Denial of Service

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Calendar Grey August 16, 2024
Dist Suse Esm H88
A vital patch for kernel-firmware resolves a severe flaw impacting SUSE platforms. Restart necessary.
* bsc#1229069 Cross-References: * CVE-2023-31315

Summary

## This update for kernel-firmware fixes the following issues: * CVE-2023-31315: Fixed validation in a model specific register (MSR) that lead to modification of SMM configuration by malicious program with ring0 access (bsc#1229069)

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Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service important SUSE configuration modification kernel-firmware CVE-2023-31315

References

* bsc#1229069

Cross-

* CVE-2023-31315

CVSS scores:

* CVE-2023-31315 ( SUSE ): 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected Products:

* SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP2

* SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP2 LTSS 15-SP2

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP2

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP2 LTSS 15-SP2

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP2

An update that solves one vulnerability can now be installed.

##

* https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-31315.html

* https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1229069

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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2024:2944-1
Rating: important

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Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service important SUSE configuration modification kernel-firmware CVE-2023-31315

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