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openSUSE 15.5: 2023:4427-1 Moderate Security Update for NVIDIA Driver

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Calendar Grey November 13, 2023
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The recent release of kernel firmware along with an NVIDIA driver upgrade mitigates a significant security vulnerability, enhancing the overall resilience and safety of the system.
This update for kernel-firmware-nvidia-gspx-G06, nvidia-open-driver-G06-signed fixes the following issues: Security issue fixed:

Description

This update for kernel-firmware-nvidia-gspx-G06, nvidia-open-driver-G06-signed

fixes the following issues:

Security issue fixed:

* CVE-2023-31022: Fixed NULL ptr deref in kernel module layer

Changes in kernel-firmware-nvidia-gspx-G06:

* update firmware to version 535.129.03

* update firmware to version 535.113.01

Changes in nvidia-open-driver-G06-signed:

* Update to version 535.129.03

* Add a devel package so other modules can be built against this one.

[jira#PED-4964]

* disabled build of nvidia-peermem module; it's no longer needed and never

worked anyway (it was only a stub) [bsc#1211892]

* preamble: added conflict to nvidia-gfxG05-kmp to prevent users from

accidently installing conflicting proprietary kernelspace drivers from CUDA

repository

* Update to version 535.113.01

* kmp-post.sh/kmp-postun.sh:

* add/remove nosimplefb=1 kernel option in order to fix Linux console also on

sle15-sp6/Leap 15.6 kernel, which will come with simpledrm support

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Topics Covered

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Patch

## Patch Instructions:

To install this SUSE 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 15.5

zypper in -t patch SUSE-2023-4427=1 openSUSE-SLE-15.5-2023-4427=1

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.5

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Micro-5.5-2023-4427=1

* Basesystem Module 15-SP5

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Basesystem-15-SP5-2023-4427=1

* Public Cloud Module 15-SP5

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Public-Cloud-15-SP5-2023-4427=1

Package List

* openSUSE Leap 15.5 (aarch64 nosrc x86_64)

* kernel-firmware-nvidia-gspx-G06-535.129.03-150500.11.9.1

* openSUSE Leap 15.5 (x86_64)

* nvidia-open-driver-G06-signed-kmp-azure-debuginfo-535.129.03_k5.14.21_150500.33.20-150500.3.13.1

* nvidia-open-driver-G06-signed-kmp-azure-535.129.03_k5.14.21_150500.33.20-150500.3.13.1

* nvidia-open-driver-G06-signed-azure-devel-535.129.03-150500.3.13.1

* openSUSE Leap 15.5 (aarch64 x86_64)

* nvidia-open-driver-G06-signed-debugsource-535.129.03-150500.3.13.1

* nvidia-open-driver-G06-signed-default-devel-535.129.03-150500.3.13.1

* nvidia-open-driver-G06-signed-kmp-default-debuginfo-535.129.03_k5.14.21_150500.55.31-150500.3.13.1

* nvidia-open-driver-G06-signed-kmp-default-535.129.03_k5.14.21_150500.55.31-150500.3.13.1

* openSUSE Leap 15.5 (aarch64)

* nvidia-open-driver-G06-signed-64kb-devel-535.129.03-150500.3.13.1

* nvidia-open-driver-G06-signed-kmp-64kb-debuginfo-535.129.03_k5.14.21_150500.55.31-150500.3.13.1

*...

Read the Full Advisory

References

* bsc#1211892

* bsc#1216826

* jsc#PED-4964

## References:

* https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-31022.html

* https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1211892

* https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1216826

*

Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2023:4427-1
Rating: moderate

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