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openSUSE 15.4: SUSE-SU-2025:0835-1 important: kernel security update

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Calendar Grey March 11, 2025
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
SUSE-SU-2025:0835-2 brings significant updates regarding kernel security vulnerabilities affecting multiple openSUSE releases on 2025-03-12.
An update that solves 16 vulnerabilities and has 10 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-2022-49080: mm/mempolicy: fix mpol_new leak in shared_policy_replace

(bsc#1238033).

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

(bsc#1224700).

* CVE-2024-50128: net: wwan: fix global oob in wwan_rtnl_policy (bsc#1232905).

* CVE-2024-53135: KVM: VMX: Bury Intel PT virtualization (guest/host mode)

behind CONFIG_BROKEN (bsc#1234154).

* CVE-2024-57948: mac802154: check local interfaces before deleting sdata list

(bsc#1236677).

* CVE-2025-21690: scsi: storvsc: Ratelimit warning logs to prevent VM denial

of service (bsc#1237025).

* CVE-2025-21692: net: sched: fix ets qdisc OOB Indexing (bsc#1237028).

* CVE-2025-21699: gfs2: Truncate address space when flipping GFS2_DIF_JDATA

flag (bsc#1237139).

The following non-security bugs were fixed:

* idpf: call set_real_num_queues in...

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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-2025-835=1

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro for Rancher 5.3

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Micro-5.3-2025-835=1

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.3

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Micro-5.3-2025-835=1

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro for Rancher 5.4

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Micro-5.4-2025-835=1

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.4

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Micro-5.4-2025-835=1

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Live Patching 15-SP4

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Live-Patching-15-SP4-2025-835=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-SP4-2025-835=1

* SUSE Linux...

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Package List

* openSUSE Leap 15.4 (noarch nosrc)

* kernel-docs-5.14.21-150400.24.153.1

* openSUSE Leap 15.4 (noarch)

* kernel-devel-5.14.21-150400.24.153.1

* kernel-source-5.14.21-150400.24.153.1

* kernel-docs-html-5.14.21-150400.24.153.1

* kernel-source-vanilla-5.14.21-150400.24.153.1

* kernel-macros-5.14.21-150400.24.153.1

* openSUSE Leap 15.4 (nosrc ppc64le x86_64)

* kernel-debug-5.14.21-150400.24.153.1

* openSUSE Leap 15.4 (ppc64le x86_64)

* kernel-debug-debuginfo-5.14.21-150400.24.153.1

* kernel-debug-devel-debuginfo-5.14.21-150400.24.153.1

* kernel-debug-debugsource-5.14.21-150400.24.153.1

* kernel-debug-devel-5.14.21-150400.24.153.1

* openSUSE Leap 15.4 (aarch64 ppc64le x86_64)

* kernel-default-base-5.14.21-150400.24.153.1.150400.24.76.1

* kernel-kvmsmall-devel-5.14.21-150400.24.153.1

* kernel-kvmsmall-debugsource-5.14.21-150400.24.153.1

* kernel-kvmsmall-devel-debuginfo-5.14.21-150400.24.153.1

* kernel-default-base-rebuild-5.14.21-150400.24.153.1.150400.24.76.1

*...

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References

* bsc#1208995

* bsc#1220946

* bsc#1224700

* bsc#1225742

* bsc#1232905

* bsc#1232919

* bsc#1234154

* bsc#1234853

* bsc#1234891

* bsc#1234963

* bsc#1235054

* bsc#1235061

* bsc#1235073

* bsc#1236661

* bsc#1236675

* bsc#1236677

* bsc#1236757

* bsc#1236758

* bsc#1236760

* bsc#1236761

* bsc#1237025

* bsc#1237028

* bsc#1237139

* bsc#1237316

* bsc#1237693

* bsc#1238033

## References:

* https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-49080.html

* https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-1192.html

* https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-52572.html

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

* https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-50115.html

* https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-50128.html

* https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-53135.html

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

* https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-53239.html

* https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-56539.html

* https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-56548.html

*...

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Severity
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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2025:0835-1
Release Date: 2025-03-11T10:58:20Z
Affected Products: * openSUSE Leap 15.4 * 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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