Google: sys-kernel/lakitu-kernel-6_1: security update to 18026.0.0

medium Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 451746

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

- In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: serial: 8250_port: Check IRQ data
before use In case the leaf driver wants to use IRQ polling (irq = 0) and IIR register shows that an
interrupt happened in the 8250 hardware the IRQ data can be NULL. In such a case we need to skip the wake
event as we came to this path from the timer interrupt and quite likely system is already awake. Without
this fix we have got an Oops: serial8250: ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 0, base_baud = 115200) is a 16550A ...
BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000010 RIP: 0010:serial8250_handle_irq+0x7c/0x240
Call Trace: ? serial8250_handle_irq+0x7c/0x240 ? __pfx_serial8250_timeout+0x10/0x10 (CVE-2023-52567)

Solution

Update the sys-kernel/lakitu-kernel-6_1 library and its related packages to version 18026.0.0 or later.

See Also

https://storage.googleapis.com/cos-oval-vulnerability-feed/cos-113.oval.xml.tar.gz

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 451746

Version: Revision 1.1

Type: Local

Published: 10/1/2026

Updated: 10/1/2026

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3

Percentile: 23.18

Vendor

Vendor Severity: MEDIUM

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.6

Temporal Score: 3.4

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-52567

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 4.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/12/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-52567