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openSUSE: 2024:4131-1 important: the Linux Kernel Advisory Security Update

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Calendar Grey December 2, 2024
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An important SUSE security advisory addressing 105 vulnerabilities and introducing key fixes to the Linux Kernel.
An update that solves 105 vulnerabilities, contains one feature and has 19 security fixes can now be installed.

Description

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 SP4 kernel was updated to receive various security

bugfixes.

The following security bugs were fixed:

* CVE-2024-43854: Initialize integrity buffer to zero before writing it to

media (bsc#1229345)

* CVE-2024-49925: fbdev: efifb: Register sysfs groups through driver core

(bsc#1232224)

* CVE-2024-49945: net/ncsi: Disable the ncsi work before freeing the

associated structure (bsc#1232165).

* CVE-2024-50208: RDMA/bnxt_re: Fix a bug while setting up Level-2 PBL pages

(bsc#1233117).

* CVE-2022-48879: efi: fix NULL-deref in init error path (bsc#1229556).

* CVE-2022-48956: ipv6: avoid use-after-free in ip6_fragment() (bsc#1231893).

* CVE-2022-48959: net: dsa: sja1105: fix memory leak in

sja1105_setup_devlink_regions() (bsc#1231976).

* CVE-2022-48960: net: hisilicon: Fix potential use-after-free in hix5hd2_rx()

(bsc#1231979).

* CVE-2022-48962: net: hisilicon: Fix potential use-after-free in

hisi_femac_rx()...

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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 15.4

zypper in -t patch SUSE-2024-4131=1

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro for Rancher 5.3

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Micro-5.3-2024-4131=1

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.3

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Micro-5.3-2024-4131=1

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro for Rancher 5.4

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Micro-5.4-2024-4131=1

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.4

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Micro-5.4-2024-4131=1

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Live Patching 15-SP4

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Live-Patching-15-SP4-2024-4131=1

Please note that this is the initial kernel livepatch without fixes itself, this

package is later updated by separate standalone kernel livepatch updates.

* SUSE Linux Enterprise High Availability Extension 15 SP4

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Product-HA-15-SP4-2024-4131=1

* SUSE Linux...

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Package List

* openSUSE Leap 15.4 (ppc64le s390x x86_64)

* kernel-livepatch-5_14_21-150400_24_141-default-debuginfo-1-150400.9.5.1

* kernel-livepatch-5_14_21-150400_24_141-default-1-150400.9.5.1

* kernel-livepatch-SLE15-SP4_Update_33-debugsource-1-150400.9.5.1

* openSUSE Leap 15.4 (noarch nosrc)

* kernel-docs-5.14.21-150400.24.141.1

* openSUSE Leap 15.4 (noarch)

* kernel-docs-html-5.14.21-150400.24.141.1

* kernel-devel-5.14.21-150400.24.141.1

* kernel-source-vanilla-5.14.21-150400.24.141.1

* kernel-macros-5.14.21-150400.24.141.1

* kernel-source-5.14.21-150400.24.141.1

* openSUSE Leap 15.4 (nosrc ppc64le x86_64)

* kernel-debug-5.14.21-150400.24.141.1

* openSUSE Leap 15.4 (ppc64le x86_64)

* kernel-debug-devel-debuginfo-5.14.21-150400.24.141.1

* kernel-debug-livepatch-devel-5.14.21-150400.24.141.1

* kernel-debug-devel-5.14.21-150400.24.141.1

* kernel-debug-debuginfo-5.14.21-150400.24.141.1

* kernel-debug-debugsource-5.14.21-150400.24.141.1

* openSUSE Leap 15.4 (aarch64 ppc64le x86_64)

*...

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References

* bsc#1204171

* bsc#1205796

* bsc#1206188

* bsc#1206344

* bsc#1209290

* bsc#1210449

* bsc#1210627

* bsc#1213034

* bsc#1216223

* bsc#1216813

* bsc#1218562

* bsc#1220382

* bsc#1223384

* bsc#1223524

* bsc#1223824

* bsc#1225189

* bsc#1225336

* bsc#1225611

* bsc#1226666

* bsc#1228743

* bsc#1229345

* bsc#1229452

* bsc#1229454

* bsc#1229456

* bsc#1229556

* bsc#1230429

* bsc#1230442

* bsc#1230454

* bsc#1230600

* bsc#1230620

* bsc#1230715

* bsc#1230903

* bsc#1231016

* bsc#1231073

* bsc#1231191

* bsc#1231193

* bsc#1231195

* bsc#1231197

* bsc#1231200

* bsc#1231203

* bsc#1231293

* bsc#1231375

* bsc#1231502

* bsc#1231673

* bsc#1231861

* bsc#1231883

* bsc#1231885

* bsc#1231887

* bsc#1231888

* bsc#1231890

* bsc#1231892

* bsc#1231893

* bsc#1231895

* bsc#1231896

* bsc#1231897

* bsc#1231929

* bsc#1231936

* bsc#1231937

* bsc#1231938

* bsc#1231939

* bsc#1231940

* bsc#1231941

* bsc#1231942

* bsc#1231958

* bsc#1231960

* bsc#1231961

* bsc#1231962

* bsc#1231972

* bsc#1231976

* bsc#1231979

* bsc#1231987

* bsc#1231988

* bsc#1231991

* bsc#1231992

* bsc#1231995

* bsc#1231996

*...

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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2024:4131-1
Release Date: 2024-12-02T10:00:25Z
Affected Products: * openSUSE Leap 15.4 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 15 SP4 LTSS * SUSE Linux Enterprise High Availability Extension 15 SP4 * SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP4 * SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing ESPOS 15 SP4 * SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing LTSS 15 SP4 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Live Patching 15-SP4 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.3 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.4 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro for Rancher 5.3 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro for Rancher 5.4 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time 15 SP4 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP4 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP4 LTSS * SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP4 * SUSE Manager Proxy 4.3 * SUSE Manager Retail Branch Server 4.3 * SUSE Manager Server 4.3

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