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openSUSE 15.5: SUSE-SU-2025:0201-1 crucial: kernel security flaws

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Calendar Grey January 21, 2025
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Crucial patches for the openSUSE kernel tackle multiple security flaws, such as remote exploitation risks and unauthorized memory access.
An update that solves 77 vulnerabilities and has 31 security fixes can now be installed.

Description

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 SP5 kernel was updated to receive various security

bugfixes.

The following security bugs were fixed:

* CVE-2022-36280: Fixed out-of-bounds memory access vulnerability found in

vmwgfx driver (bsc#1203332).

* CVE-2022-48742: rtnetlink: make sure to refresh master_dev/m_ops in

__rtnl_newlink() (bsc#1226694).

* CVE-2022-49033: btrfs: qgroup: fix sleep from invalid context bug in

btrfs_qgroup_inherit() (bsc#1232045).

* CVE-2023-1382: Fixed denial of service in tipc_conn_close (bsc#1209288).

* CVE-2023-33951: Fixed a race condition that could have led to an information

disclosure inside the vmwgfx driver (bsc#1211593).

* CVE-2023-33952: Fixed a double free that could have led to a local privilege

escalation inside the vmwgfx driver (bsc#1211595).

* CVE-2023-52920: bpf: support non-r10 register spill/fill to/from stack in

precision tracking (bsc#1232823).

* CVE-2024-26886: Bluetooth: af_bluetooth: Fix deadlock...

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Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service security update important kernel memory access openSUSE

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-2025-201=1

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.5

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Micro-5.5-2025-201=1

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Live Patching 15-SP5

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Live-Patching-15-SP5-2025-201=1

* SUSE Linux Enterprise High Availability Extension 15 SP5

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Product-HA-15-SP5-2025-201=1

* SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing ESPOS 15 SP5

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Product-HPC-15-SP5-ESPOS-2025-201=1

* SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing LTSS 15 SP5

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Product-HPC-15-SP5-LTSS-2025-201=1

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP5 LTSS

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Product-SLES-15-SP5-LTSS-2025-201=1

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP5

zypper in -t patch...

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Package List

* openSUSE Leap 15.5 (noarch nosrc)

* kernel-docs-5.14.21-150500.55.91.1

* openSUSE Leap 15.5 (noarch)

* kernel-macros-5.14.21-150500.55.91.1

* kernel-source-vanilla-5.14.21-150500.55.91.1

* kernel-docs-html-5.14.21-150500.55.91.1

* kernel-source-5.14.21-150500.55.91.1

* kernel-devel-5.14.21-150500.55.91.1

* openSUSE Leap 15.5 (nosrc ppc64le x86_64)

* kernel-debug-5.14.21-150500.55.91.1

* openSUSE Leap 15.5 (ppc64le x86_64)

* kernel-debug-debuginfo-5.14.21-150500.55.91.1

* kernel-debug-devel-debuginfo-5.14.21-150500.55.91.1

* kernel-debug-debugsource-5.14.21-150500.55.91.1

* kernel-debug-devel-5.14.21-150500.55.91.1

* openSUSE Leap 15.5 (x86_64)

* kernel-default-vdso-debuginfo-5.14.21-150500.55.91.1

* kernel-kvmsmall-vdso-5.14.21-150500.55.91.1

* kernel-default-vdso-5.14.21-150500.55.91.1

* kernel-debug-vdso-5.14.21-150500.55.91.1

* kernel-kvmsmall-vdso-debuginfo-5.14.21-150500.55.91.1

* kernel-debug-vdso-debuginfo-5.14.21-150500.55.91.1

* openSUSE Leap 15.5 (aarch64 ppc64le x86_64)

*...

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References

* bsc#1170891

* bsc#1173139

* bsc#1185010

* bsc#1190358

* bsc#1190428

* bsc#1203332

* bsc#1205521

* bsc#1209288

* bsc#1209798

* bsc#1211593

* bsc#1211595

* bsc#1214635

* bsc#1215304

* bsc#1215523

* bsc#1216813

* bsc#1216909

* bsc#1219608

* bsc#1222878

* bsc#1223044

* bsc#1225758

* bsc#1225820

* bsc#1226694

* bsc#1228190

* bsc#1229809

* bsc#1230422

* bsc#1230697

* bsc#1231388

* bsc#1231453

* bsc#1231854

* bsc#1232045

* bsc#1232157

* bsc#1232166

* bsc#1232419

* bsc#1232436

* bsc#1232472

* bsc#1232823

* bsc#1233038

* bsc#1233050

* bsc#1233070

* bsc#1233096

* bsc#1233127

* bsc#1233200

* bsc#1233239

* bsc#1233324

* bsc#1233467

* bsc#1233468

* bsc#1233469

* bsc#1233485

* bsc#1233547

* bsc#1233550

* bsc#1233558

* bsc#1233564

* bsc#1233568

* bsc#1233637

* bsc#1233642

* bsc#1233701

* bsc#1233769

* bsc#1233837

* bsc#1234072

* bsc#1234073

* bsc#1234075

* bsc#1234076

* bsc#1234077

* bsc#1234087

* bsc#1234120

* bsc#1234156

* bsc#1234219

* bsc#1234220

* bsc#1234240

* bsc#1234241

* bsc#1234281

* bsc#1234282

* bsc#1234294

* bsc#1234338

* bsc#1234357

* bsc#1234437

*...

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Severity
important
Lowest
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Medium
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Critical

Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2025:0201-1
Release Date: 2025-01-21T12:51:49Z
Affected Products: * openSUSE Leap 15.5 * SUSE Linux Enterprise High Availability Extension 15 SP5 * SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP5 * SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing ESPOS 15 SP5 * SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing LTSS 15 SP5 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Live Patching 15-SP5 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.5 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time 15 SP5 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP5 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP5 LTSS * SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP5

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Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service security update important kernel memory access openSUSE

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