openSUSE Leap 15.1: 2020:1153-1 Important: Kernel Security Update
opensuse
August 6, 2020
An update that solves 19 vulnerabilities and has 92 fixes is now available.
Description
The openSUSE Leap 15.1 kernel was updated to receive various security and
bugfixes.
The following security bugs were fixed:
- CVE-2019-16746: An issue was discovered in net/wireless/nl80211.c where
it did not check the length of variable elements in a beacon head,
leading to a buffer overflow (bnc#1152107 1173659).
- CVE-2019-20810: go7007_snd_init in drivers/media/usb/go7007/snd-go7007.c
did not call snd_card_free for a failure path, which causes a memory
leak, aka CID-9453264ef586 (bnc#1172458).
- CVE-2019-20908: An issue was discovered in drivers/firmware/efi/efi.c
where Incorrect access permissions for the efivar_ssdt ACPI variable
could be used by attackers to bypass lockdown or secure boot
restrictions, aka CID-1957a85b0032 (bnc#1173567).
- CVE-2020-0305: In cdev_get of char_dev.c, there is a possible
use-after-free due to a race condition. This could lead to local
escalation of privilege with System...
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Patch
Patch Instructions:
To install this openSUSE Security Update use the SUSE recommended installation methods
like YaST online_update or "zypper patch".
Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:
- openSUSE Leap 15.1:
zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2020-1153=1
Package List
- openSUSE Leap 15.1 (x86_64):
kernel-debug-4.12.14-lp151.28.59.1
kernel-debug-base-4.12.14-lp151.28.59.1
kernel-debug-base-debuginfo-4.12.14-lp151.28.59.1
kernel-debug-debuginfo-4.12.14-lp151.28.59.1
kernel-debug-debugsource-4.12.14-lp151.28.59.1
kernel-debug-devel-4.12.14-lp151.28.59.1
kernel-debug-devel-debuginfo-4.12.14-lp151.28.59.1
kernel-default-4.12.14-lp151.28.59.1
kernel-default-base-4.12.14-lp151.28.59.1
kernel-default-base-debuginfo-4.12.14-lp151.28.59.1
kernel-default-debuginfo-4.12.14-lp151.28.59.1
kernel-default-debugsource-4.12.14-lp151.28.59.1
kernel-default-devel-4.12.14-lp151.28.59.1
kernel-default-devel-debuginfo-4.12.14-lp151.28.59.1
kernel-kvmsmall-4.12.14-lp151.28.59.1
kernel-kvmsmall-base-4.12.14-lp151.28.59.1
kernel-kvmsmall-base-debuginfo-4.12.14-lp151.28.59.1
kernel-kvmsmall-debuginfo-4.12.14-lp151.28.59.1
kernel-kvmsmall-debugsource-4.12.14-lp151.28.59.1
kernel-kvmsmall-devel-4.12.14-lp151.28.59.1
kernel-kvmsmall-devel-debuginfo-4.12.14-lp151.28.59.1
kernel-obs-build-4.12.14-lp15...
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bsc#1174549
- copy_{to,from}_user(): consolidate object size checks (git fixes).
- crypto: algboss - do not wait during notifier callback (bsc#1111666).
- crypto: algif_skcipher - Cap recv SG list at ctx->used (bsc#1111666).
- crypto: caam - update xts sector size for large input length
(bsc#1111666).
- crypto: cavium/nitrox - Fix 'nitrox_get_first_device()' when ndevlist is
fully iterated (bsc#1111666).
- crypto: cavium/nitrox - Fix 'nitrox_get_first_device()' when ndevlist is
fully iterated (git-fixes).
- crypto/chcr: fix for ccm(aes) failed test (bsc#1111666).
- crypto: chelsio/chtls: properly set tp->lsndtime (bsc#1111666).
- crypto: rockchip - fix scatterlist nents error (git-fixes).
- crypto: stm32/crc32 - fix ext4 chksum BUG_ON() (git-fixes).
- crypto: talitos - check AES key size (git-fixes).
- crypto: talitos - fix ablkcipher for CONFIG_VMAP_STACK (git-fixes).
- crypto: talitos - fix IPsec cipher in length (git-fixes).
- crypto: talitos - reorder code in talitos_edesc_alloc() (git-fixes).
-...
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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2020:1153-1
Rating: important
Affected Products:
openSUSE Leap 15.1
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