Subject: Security Vulnerability in the Linux Kernel n_gsm line discipline CVE-2023-52564 / CVE-2023-6546
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Environment
For a comprehensive list of affected products please review the SUSE CVE announcements:
https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-52564.html
https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-6546.html
Situation
Resolution
The last reported problems currently have no CVE assigned by the Linux Kernel CNA yet due to process reasons, but might assign one later. Hence the above CVE announcements point to the currently known CVEs only and will be updated as soon as possible.
SUSE has released fixed kernel packages for its distributions:
- SLES 15 SP4 LTSS, SLE Micro 5.3, 5.4: default kernel: 5.14.21-150400.24.116.1 and newer
- SLE Micro 5.3, 5.4: RT kernel: 5.14.21-150400.15.76.1 and newer
(more kernels are still in QA)
Status
Additional Information
rmmod n_gsm echo "blacklist n_gsm" >> /etc/modprobe.d/99-n_gsm_blacklist.conf echo "install n_gsm /bin/true" >> /etc/modprobe.d/99-n_gsm_blacklist.conf
To disallow auto-loading of tty line discipline modules in general:
sysctl dev.tty.ldisc_autoload = 0
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- Creation Date: 19-Apr-2024
- Modified Date:08-May-2024
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