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openSUSE Leap 15.6 Release: SUSE-SU-2025:0262-1 Important Kernel Patch

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Calendar Grey January 27, 2025
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Essential security update for Linux Kernel Live Patch 2 for SLE 15 SP6. Addresses 11 significant vulnerabilities.
An update that solves 11 vulnerabilities can now be installed.

Description

This update for the Linux Kernel 6.4.0-150600_23_14 fixes several issues.

The following security issues were fixed:

* CVE-2024-40921: net: bridge: mst: pass vlan group directly to

br_mst_vlan_set_state (bsc#1227784).

* CVE-2024-40920: net: bridge: mst: fix suspicious rcu usage in

br_mst_set_state (bsc#1227781).

* CVE-2024-36979: net: bridge: mst: fix vlan use-after-free (bsc#1227369).

* CVE-2024-41057: cachefiles: fix slab-use-after-free in

cachefiles_withdraw_cookie() (bsc#1229275).

* CVE-2024-50264: vsock/virtio: Initialization of the dangling pointer

occurring in vsk->trans (bsc#1233712).

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

* CVE-2024-42133: Bluetooth: Ignore too large handle values in BIG

(bsc#1231419).

* CVE-2024-35949: btrfs: make sure that WRITTEN is set on all metadata blocks

(bsc#1229273).

* CVE-2023-52752: smb: client: fix use-after-free bug in

cifs_debug_data_proc_show() (bsc#1225819).

*...

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Topics Covered

security advisory security update important memory leak linux kernel openSUSE use-after-free

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 15.6

zypper in -t patch SUSE-2025-262=1

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Live Patching 15-SP6

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Live-Patching-15-SP6-2025-262=1

Package List

* openSUSE Leap 15.6 (ppc64le s390x x86_64)

* kernel-livepatch-6_4_0-150600_23_14-default-debuginfo-7-150600.13.6.1

* kernel-livepatch-6_4_0-150600_23_14-default-7-150600.13.6.1

* kernel-livepatch-SLE15-SP6_Update_2-debugsource-7-150600.13.6.1

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Live Patching 15-SP6 (ppc64le s390x x86_64)

* kernel-livepatch-6_4_0-150600_23_14-default-debuginfo-7-150600.13.6.1

* kernel-livepatch-6_4_0-150600_23_14-default-7-150600.13.6.1

* kernel-livepatch-SLE15-SP6_Update_2-debugsource-7-150600.13.6.1

References

* bsc#1225819

* bsc#1227369

* bsc#1227781

* bsc#1227784

* bsc#1228349

* bsc#1228786

* bsc#1229273

* bsc#1229275

* bsc#1229553

* bsc#1231419

* bsc#1233712

## References:

* https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-52752.html

* https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-35949.html

* https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-36979.html

* https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-40909.html

* https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-40920.html

* https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-40921.html

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

* https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-41057.html

* https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-42133.html

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

* https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-50264.html

* https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1225819

* https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1227369

* https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1227781

* https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1227784

*...

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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2025:0262-1
Release Date: 2025-01-27T14:04:01Z
Affected Products: * openSUSE Leap 15.6 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Live Patching 15-SP6 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time 15 SP6 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP6 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP6

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Topics Covered

security advisory security update important memory leak linux kernel openSUSE use-after-free

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