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openSUSE Leap 15.2: 2020:1236-1 Important: Linux Kernel Fixes

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Calendar Grey August 21, 2020
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Crucial news regarding Fedora's kernel resolves five security vulnerabilities, boosting system protection with 85 adjustments.
An update that solves 7 vulnerabilities and has 109 fixes is now available.

Description

The openSUSE Leap 15.2 kernel was updated to receive various security and

bugfixes.

This update is signed with the new UEFI signing key for openSUSE. It

contains rebuilds of all available KMP packages also rebuilt with the new

UEFi signing key. (boo#1174543)

The following security bugs were fixed:

- CVE-2020-14356: A use after free vulnerability in cgroup BPF component

was fixed (bsc#1175213).

- CVE-2020-14331: A buffer over write in vgacon_scroll was fixed

(bnc#1174205).

- CVE-2020-16166: The Linux kernel allowed remote attackers to make

observations that help to obtain sensitive information about the

internal state of the network RNG, aka CID-f227e3ec3b5c. This is related

to drivers/char/random.c and kernel/time/timer.c (bnc#1174757).

- CVE-2020-10135: Legacy pairing and secure-connections pairing

authentication in Bluetooth® BR/EDR Core Specification v5.2 and earlier

may have allowed an unauthenticated user to...

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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 15.2:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2020-1236=1

Package List

- openSUSE Leap 15.2 (noarch):

dpdk-doc-19.11.1-lp152.2.5.1

kernel-devel-5.3.18-lp152.36.1

kernel-docs-5.3.18-lp152.36.1

kernel-docs-html-5.3.18-lp152.36.1

kernel-macros-5.3.18-lp152.36.1

kernel-source-5.3.18-lp152.36.1

kernel-source-vanilla-5.3.18-lp152.36.1

virtualbox-guest-desktop-icons-6.1.10-lp152.2.2.1

virtualbox-guest-source-6.1.10-lp152.2.2.1

virtualbox-host-source-6.1.10-lp152.2.2.1

- openSUSE Leap 15.2 (x86_64):

bbswitch-0.8-lp152.6.2.1

bbswitch-debugsource-0.8-lp152.6.2.1

bbswitch-kmp-default-0.8_k5.3.18_lp152.36-lp152.6.2.1

bbswitch-kmp-default-debuginfo-0.8_k5.3.18_lp152.36-lp152.6.2.1

bbswitch-kmp-preempt-0.8_k5.3.18_lp152.36-lp152.6.2.1

bbswitch-kmp-preempt-debuginfo-0.8_k5.3.18_lp152.36-lp152.6.2.1

crash-7.2.8-lp152.3.2.1

crash-debuginfo-7.2.8-lp152.3.2.1

crash-debugsource-7.2.8-lp152.3.2.1

crash-devel-7.2.8-lp152.3.2.1

crash-doc-7.2.8-lp152.3.2.1

crash-eppic-7.2.8-lp152.3.2.1

crash-eppic-debuginfo-7.2.8-lp152.3.2.1

crash-gcore-7.2.8-lp152.3.2.1

crash-gcore-debuginfo-7.2.8-lp152.3.2.1

crash-kmp-d...

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References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-0305.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-10135.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-10781.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-14331.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-14356.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-15780.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-16166.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1065600

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1065729

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1120163

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1133021

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1149032

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1152472

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1152489

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1153274

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1154353

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1154488

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1155518

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1155798

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1165933

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1167773

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1168959

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1169771

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1171857

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1171988

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1172197

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2020:1236-1
Rating: important
Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 15.2 le.

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