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openSUSE Leap 15.4 important: Linux Kernel Critical Patch

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Calendar Grey May 1, 2025
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
This notification presents an important security patch for the Linux Kernel within Fedora, addressing four significant exploits.
An update that solves three vulnerabilities can now be installed.

Description

This update for the Linux Kernel 5.14.21-150400_24_136 fixes several issues.

The following security issues were fixed:

* CVE-2024-8805: Bluetooth: hci_event: Align BR/EDR JUST_WORKS paring with LE

(bsc#1240840).

* CVE-2024-50205: ALSA: firewire-lib: Avoid division by zero in

apply_constraint_to_size() (bsc#1233294).

* CVE-2024-56650: netfilter: x_tables: fix LED ID check in led_tg_check()

(bsc#1235431).

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Topics Covered

security advisory kernel update security fix critical severity openSUSE Live Patching

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-2025-1425=1 SUSE-2025-1427=1 SUSE-2025-1424=1

SUSE-2025-1426=1

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Live Patching 15-SP4

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Live-Patching-15-SP4-2025-1426=1 SUSE-SLE-

Module-Live-Patching-15-SP4-2025-1425=1 SUSE-SLE-Module-Live-

Patching-15-SP4-2025-1427=1 SUSE-SLE-Module-Live-Patching-15-SP4-2025-1424=1

Package List

* openSUSE Leap 15.4 (ppc64le s390x x86_64)

* kernel-livepatch-5_14_21-150400_24_116-default-17-150400.2.1

* kernel-livepatch-5_14_21-150400_24_136-default-debuginfo-7-150400.2.1

* kernel-livepatch-5_14_21-150400_24_128-default-9-150400.2.1

* kernel-livepatch-SLE15-SP4_Update_31-debugsource-7-150400.2.1

* kernel-livepatch-SLE15-SP4_Update_25-debugsource-17-150400.2.1

* kernel-livepatch-5_14_21-150400_24_116-default-debuginfo-17-150400.2.1

* kernel-livepatch-5_14_21-150400_24_133-default-7-150400.2.1

* kernel-livepatch-5_14_21-150400_24_133-default-debuginfo-7-150400.2.1

* kernel-livepatch-SLE15-SP4_Update_32-debugsource-7-150400.2.1

* kernel-livepatch-5_14_21-150400_24_136-default-7-150400.2.1

* kernel-livepatch-SLE15-SP4_Update_29-debugsource-9-150400.2.1

* kernel-livepatch-5_14_21-150400_24_128-default-debuginfo-9-150400.2.1

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

* kernel-livepatch-5_14_21-150400_24_116-default-17-150400.2.1

*...

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References

* bsc#1233294

* bsc#1235431

* bsc#1240840

## References:

* https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-50205.html

* https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-56650.html

* https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-8805.html

* https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1233294

* https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1235431

* https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1240840

Severity
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Critical

Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2025:1425-1
Release Date: 2025-05-01T19:39:28Z
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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