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openSUSE Leap 15.2: 2021:0579-1 Important Kernel Security Fixes

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Calendar Grey April 19, 2021
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
An important enhancement for openSUSE Leap 15.2's Linux Kernel resolves 12 problems, addressing severe bugs and security risks.
An update that solves 12 vulnerabilities and has 15 fixes is now available

Description

The openSUSE Linux Leap 15.2 kernel was updated to receive various

security and bugfixes.

The following security bugs were fixed:

- CVE-2021-3483: Fixed a use-after-free in nosy.c (bsc#1184393).

- CVE-2021-30002: Fixed a memory leak for large arguments in

video_usercopy (bsc#1184120).

- CVE-2021-29154: Fixed incorrect computation of branch displacements,

allowing arbitrary code execution (bsc#1184391).

- CVE-2021-28950: Fixed an issue in fs/fuse/fuse_i.h due to a retry loop

continually was finding the same bad inode (bsc#1184194).

- CVE-2020-36312: Fixed a memory leak upon a kmalloc failure (bsc#1184509

).

- CVE-2020-36311: Fixed a denial of service (soft lockup) by triggering

destruction of a large SEV VM (bsc#1184511).

- CVE-2020-36310: Fixed infinite loop for certain nested page faults

(bsc#1184512).

- CVE-2020-25670, CVE-2020-25671, CVE-2020-25672, CVE-2020-25673: Fixed

multiple bugs in NFC subsytem...

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Topics Covered

security advisory security patch important update openSUSE kernel fixes system bugs critical bugs

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-2021-579=1

Package List

- openSUSE Leap 15.2 (x86_64):

kernel-debug-5.3.18-lp152.72.1

kernel-debug-debuginfo-5.3.18-lp152.72.1

kernel-debug-debugsource-5.3.18-lp152.72.1

kernel-debug-devel-5.3.18-lp152.72.1

kernel-debug-devel-debuginfo-5.3.18-lp152.72.1

kernel-default-5.3.18-lp152.72.1

kernel-default-base-5.3.18-lp152.72.1.lp152.8.30.1

kernel-default-base-rebuild-5.3.18-lp152.72.1.lp152.8.30.1

kernel-default-debuginfo-5.3.18-lp152.72.1

kernel-default-debugsource-5.3.18-lp152.72.1

kernel-default-devel-5.3.18-lp152.72.1

kernel-default-devel-debuginfo-5.3.18-lp152.72.1

kernel-kvmsmall-5.3.18-lp152.72.1

kernel-kvmsmall-debuginfo-5.3.18-lp152.72.1

kernel-kvmsmall-debugsource-5.3.18-lp152.72.1

kernel-kvmsmall-devel-5.3.18-lp152.72.1

kernel-kvmsmall-devel-debuginfo-5.3.18-lp152.72.1

kernel-obs-build-5.3.18-lp152.72.1

kernel-obs-build-debugsource-5.3.18-lp152.72.1

kernel-obs-qa-5.3.18-lp152.72.1

kernel-preempt-5.3.18-lp152.72.1

kernel-preempt-debuginfo-5.3.18-lp152.72.1

kernel-preempt-debugsource-5.3.18-lp152.72.1

kernel-preempt-devel-5.3.1...

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References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-25670.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-25671.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-25672.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-25673.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-36310.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-36311.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-36312.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-36322.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-28950.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-29154.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-30002.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-3483.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1047233

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1065729

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1113295

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1152489

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1154353

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1155518

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1156395

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1167574

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1175995

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1178181

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1181507

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2021:0579-1
Rating: important
Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 15.2 ble.

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Topics Covered

security advisory security patch important update openSUSE kernel fixes system bugs critical bugs

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