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openSUSE: 2024:4262-1 important: kernel critical issues fixed

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Calendar Grey December 9, 2024
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
Crucial security enhancement for Fedora's Linux Kernel Live Patch addressing major vulnerabilities and improving overall system reliability.
An update that solves four vulnerabilities and has one security fix can now be installed.

Description

This update for the Linux Kernel 5.14.21-150400_24_125 fixes several issues.

The following security issues were fixed:

* CVE-2024-43861: Fix memory leak for not ip packets (bsc#1229553).

* CVE-2021-47598: sch_cake: do not call cake_destroy() from cake_init()

(bsc#1227471).

* CVE-2024-40954: net: do not leave a dangling sk pointer, when socket

creation fails (bsc#1227808)

* CVE-2024-41059: hfsplus: fix uninit-value in copy_name (bsc#1228573).

Non-security issues fixed:

* Fixed intermittent nfs mount failures (may be due to SUNRPC over UDP)

(bsc#1231353)

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory critical issue kernel update security fix memory leak openSUSE socket creation

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-2024-4262=1

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Live Patching 15-SP4

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Live-Patching-15-SP4-2024-4262=1

Package List

* openSUSE Leap 15.4 (ppc64le s390x x86_64)

* kernel-livepatch-5_14_21-150400_24_125-default-debuginfo-4-150400.9.6.1

* kernel-livepatch-5_14_21-150400_24_125-default-4-150400.9.6.1

* kernel-livepatch-SLE15-SP4_Update_28-debugsource-4-150400.9.6.1

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Live Patching 15-SP4 (ppc64le s390x x86_64)

* kernel-livepatch-5_14_21-150400_24_125-default-debuginfo-4-150400.9.6.1

* kernel-livepatch-5_14_21-150400_24_125-default-4-150400.9.6.1

* kernel-livepatch-SLE15-SP4_Update_28-debugsource-4-150400.9.6.1

References

* bsc#1227471

* bsc#1228573

* bsc#1228786

* bsc#1229553

* bsc#1231353

## References:

* https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-47598.html

* https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-40954.html

* https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-41059.html

* https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-43861.html

* https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1227471

* https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1228573

* https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1228786

* https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1229553

* https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1231353

Severity
important
Lowest
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Medium
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Critical

Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2024:4262-1
Release Date: 2024-12-09T10:03:55Z
Affected Products: * openSUSE Leap 15.4 * SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP4 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Live Patching 15-SP4 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.3 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.4 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time 15 SP4 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP4 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP4

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Topics Covered

security advisory critical issue kernel update security fix memory leak openSUSE socket creation

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