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openSUSE Leap 15.3: 2021:1977-1 Critical: Kernel Security Threat

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Calendar Grey July 11, 2021
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
Urgent Fedora upgrade fixes critical flaws in the Linux Kernel, improving overall system robustness and safeguarding against threats.
An update that solves 52 vulnerabilities and has 187 fixes is now available

Description

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 SP3 kernel was updated to receive various

security and bugfixes.

The following security bugs were fixed:

- CVE-2021-33200: Enforcing incorrect limits for pointer arithmetic

operations by the BPF verifier could be abused to perform out-of-bounds

reads and writes in kernel memory (bsc#1186484).

- CVE-2021-33034: Fixed a use-after-free when destroying an hci_chan. This

could lead to writing an arbitrary values. (bsc#1186111)

- CVE-2020-26139: Fixed a denial-of-service when an Access Point (AP)

forwards EAPOL frames to other clients even though the sender has not

yet successfully authenticated to the AP. (bnc#1186062)

- CVE-2021-23134: A Use After Free vulnerability in nfc sockets allowed

local attackers to elevate their privileges. (bnc#1186060)

- CVE-2021-3491: Fixed a potential heap overflow in mem_rw(). This

vulnerability is related to the PROVIDE_BUFFERS operation, which allowed

the...

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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 15.3:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-SLE-15.3-2021-1977=1

Package List

- openSUSE Leap 15.3 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64):

cluster-md-kmp-default-5.3.18-59.5.2

cluster-md-kmp-default-debuginfo-5.3.18-59.5.2

dlm-kmp-default-5.3.18-59.5.2

dlm-kmp-default-debuginfo-5.3.18-59.5.2

gfs2-kmp-default-5.3.18-59.5.2

gfs2-kmp-default-debuginfo-5.3.18-59.5.2

kernel-default-5.3.18-59.5.2

kernel-default-base-5.3.18-59.5.2.18.2.2

kernel-default-base-rebuild-5.3.18-59.5.2.18.2.2

kernel-default-debuginfo-5.3.18-59.5.2

kernel-default-debugsource-5.3.18-59.5.2

kernel-default-devel-5.3.18-59.5.2

kernel-default-devel-debuginfo-5.3.18-59.5.2

kernel-default-extra-5.3.18-59.5.2

kernel-default-extra-debuginfo-5.3.18-59.5.2

kernel-default-livepatch-5.3.18-59.5.2

kernel-default-livepatch-devel-5.3.18-59.5.2

kernel-default-optional-5.3.18-59.5.2

kernel-default-optional-debuginfo-5.3.18-59.5.2

kernel-obs-build-5.3.18-59.5.1

kernel-obs-build-debugsource-5.3.18-59.5.1

kernel-obs-qa-5.3.18-59.5.1

kernel-syms-5.3.18-59.5.1

kselftests-kmp-default-5.3.18-59.5.2

kselftests-kmp-default-debuginfo-5.3.18-59.5.2

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References

- spi: spi-fsl-dspi: set ColdFire to DMA mode (bsc#1167260).

- spi: spi-fsl-dspi: use XSPI mode instead of DMA for DPAA2 SoCs

(bsc#1167260).

- spi: spi-ti-qspi: Free DMA resources (git-fixes).

- spi: stm32: make spurious and overrun interrupts visible (git-fixes).

- squashfs: fix inode lookup sanity checks (bsc#1183750).

- squashfs: fix xattr id and id lookup sanity checks (bsc#1183750).

- staging: bcm2835-audio: Replace unsafe strcpy() with strscpy()

(git-fixes).

- staging: comedi: addi_apci_1032: Fix endian problem for COS sample

(git-fixes).

- staging: comedi: addi_apci_1500: Fix endian problem for command sample

(git-fixes).

- staging: comedi: adv_pci1710: Fix endian problem for AI command data

(git-fixes).

- staging: comedi: cb_pcidas64: fix request_irq() warn (git-fixes).

- staging: comedi: cb_pcidas: fix request_irq() warn (git-fixes).

- staging: comedi: das6402: Fix endian problem for AI command data

(git-fixes).

- staging: comedi: das800: Fix endian problem for AI command data

(git-fixes).

-...

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2021:1977-1
Rating: important
Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 15.3 ble.

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