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Mageia 7: 2020-0392 Security Advisory for Kernel Issues

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Calendar Grey October 21, 2020
Dist Mageia Esm H88
The latest kernel updates resolve serious security flaws that threaten the stability and protection of systems running Mageia 7.
A flaw was found in the way the Linux kernel Bluetooth implementation handled L2CAP packets with A2MP CID

Summary

A flaw was found in the way the Linux kernel Bluetooth implementation handled L2CAP packets with A2MP CID. A remote attacker in adjacent range could use this flaw to crash the system causing denial of service or potentially execute arbitrary code on the system by sending a specially crafted L2CAP packet. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to data confidentiality and integrity as well as system availability (CVE-2020-12351).
An information leak flaw was found in the way the Linux kernel's Bluetooth stack implementation handled initialization of stack memory when handling certain AMP packets. A remote attacker in adjacent range could use this flaw to leak small portions of stack memory on the system by sending a specially crafted AMP packets. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to data confidentiality (CVE-2020-12352).
A flaw was found in the Linux kernel before 5.9-rc4. A failure of the file system metadata validator in XFS can cause an inode with a valid, user-c...

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References

- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27443

- - - - - - - - - - - https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-12351

- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-12352

- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-24490

- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-12351

- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-12352

- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-14385

- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-14386

- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-14390

- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-24490

- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-25211

- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-25221

- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-25284

- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-25285

- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-25641

- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-25643

- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-25645

Resolution

SRPMS

- 7/core/kernel-5.7.19-3.mga7

- 7/core/kmod-virtualbox-6.0.24-6.mga7

- 7/core/xtables-addons-3.11-1.mga7

- 7/core/kmod-xtables-addons-3.11-1.mga7

Severity
critical
Lowest
Low
Medium
High
Critical

Publication date: 21 Oct 2020
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2020-0392.html
Type: security
CVE: CVE-2020-12351, CVE-2020-12352, CVE-2020-14385, CVE-2020-14386, CVE-2020-14390, CVE-2020-24490, CVE-2020-25211, CVE-2020-25221, CVE-2020-25284, CVE-2020-25285, CVE-2020-25641, CVE-2020-25643, CVE-2020-25645

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