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openSUSE Leap 15.5 Security Update: Critical Linux Kernel Vulnerabilities

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Calendar Grey July 21, 2025
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This announcement highlights key security updates for the Linux Kernel on openSUSE 15.5, tackling several urgent vulnerabilities.
An update that solves 10 vulnerabilities can now be installed.

Description

This update for the Linux Kernel 5.14.21-150500_55_68 fixes several issues.

The following security issues were fixed:

* CVE-2024-53146: NFSD: Prevent a potential integer overflow (bsc#1234854).

* CVE-2024-53214: vfio/pci: Properly hide first-in-list PCIe extended

capability (bsc#1235005).

* CVE-2024-53173: NFSv4.0: Fix a use-after-free problem in the asynchronous

open() (bsc#1234892).

* CVE-2024-57893: ALSA: seq: oss: Fix races at processing SysEx messages

(bsc#1235921).

* CVE-2024-42232: Fixed a race between delayed_work() and ceph_monc_stop().

(bsc#1228959)

* CVE-2025-21772: partitions: mac: fix handling of bogus partition table

(bsc#1238912).

* CVE-2024-53166: block, bfq: fix bfqq uaf in bfq_limit_depth() (bsc#1234885).

* CVE-2024-57793: virt: tdx-guest: Just leak decrypted memory on unrecoverable

errors (bsc#1235769).

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

(bsc#1233118).

* CVE-2024-56558:...

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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:

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Live Patching 15-SP5

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Live-Patching-15-SP5-2025-2403=1

* openSUSE Leap 15.5

zypper in -t patch SUSE-2025-2403=1

Package List

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Live Patching 15-SP5 (ppc64le s390x x86_64)

* kernel-livepatch-5_14_21-150500_55_68-default-18-150500.2.1

* kernel-livepatch-5_14_21-150500_55_68-default-debuginfo-18-150500.2.1

* kernel-livepatch-SLE15-SP5_Update_15-debugsource-18-150500.2.1

* openSUSE Leap 15.5 (ppc64le s390x x86_64)

* kernel-livepatch-5_14_21-150500_55_68-default-18-150500.2.1

* kernel-livepatch-5_14_21-150500_55_68-default-debuginfo-18-150500.2.1

* kernel-livepatch-SLE15-SP5_Update_15-debugsource-18-150500.2.1

References

* bsc#1229458

* bsc#1233118

* bsc#1234854

* bsc#1234885

* bsc#1234892

* bsc#1235005

* bsc#1235769

* bsc#1235921

* bsc#1238912

* bsc#1243648

## References:

* https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-42232.html

* https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-50208.html

* https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-53146.html

* https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-53166.html

* https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-53173.html

* https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-53214.html

* https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-56558.html

* https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-57793.html

* https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-57893.html

* https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-21772.html

* https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1229458

* https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1233118

* https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1234854

* https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1234885

* https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1234892

*...

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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2025:02403-1
Release Date: 2025-07-21T07:07:03Z
Affected Products: * openSUSE Leap 15.5 * SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 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 for SAP Applications 15 SP5

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