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SUSE: 2020:4512-1 Critical Update for OpenSSL Security Vulnerability

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Calendar Grey October 9, 2018
Dist Suse Esm H88
SUSE Security Patch: Critical kernel updates addressing various weaknesses. Apply patches to maintain system integrity.
An update that solves 20 vulnerabilities and has 13 fixes is now available

Summary

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 kernel was updated to receive various security and bugfixes. The following security bugs were fixed: - CVE-2018-14634: Prevent integer overflow in create_elf_tables that allowed a local attacker to exploit this vulnerability via a SUID-root binary and obtain full root privileges (bsc#1108912) - CVE-2018-14617: Prevent NULL pointer dereference and panic in hfsplus_lookup() when opening a file (that is purportedly a hard link) in an hfs+ filesystem that has malformed catalog data, and is mounted read-only without a metadata directory (bsc#1102870) - CVE-2018-16276: Incorrect bounds checking in the yurex USB driver in yurex_read allowed local attackers to use user access read/writes to crash the kernel or potentially escalate privileges (bsc#1106095)

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Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service important kernel local attack SUSE bugfixes

References

#1012382 #1062604 #1064232 #1065999 #1092903

#1093215 #1096547 #1097104 #1099811 #1099813

#1099844 #1099845 #1099846 #1099849 #1099863

#1099864 #1099922 #1100001 #1100089 #1102870

#1103445 #1104319 #1104495 #1104906 #1105322

#1105412 #1106095 #1106369 #1106509 #1106511

#1107689 #1108399 #1108912

Cross- CVE-2018-10853 CVE-2018-10876 CVE-2018-10877

CVE-2018-10878 CVE-2018-10879 CVE-2018-10880

CVE-2018-10881 CVE-2018-10882 CVE-2018-10883

CVE-2018-10902 CVE-2018-10940 CVE-2018-12896

CVE-2018-13093 CVE-2018-14617 CVE-2018-14634

CVE-2018-16276 CVE-2018-16658 CVE-2018-17182

CVE-2018-6554 CVE-2018-6555

Affected Products:

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-LTSS

SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Public Cloud 12

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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2018:3083-1
Rating: important

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security advisory denial of service important kernel local attack SUSE bugfixes

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