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SUSE: 2020:4371-1 Critical: Linux Kernel Live Patch Security Fix

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Calendar Grey December 11, 2019
Dist Suse Esm H88
Crucial SUSE Security Patch addressing multiple vulnerabilities in Linux Kernel Live Patch 0 for SLE 12 SP4 deployment.
An update that fixes 5 vulnerabilities is now available

Summary

This update for the Linux Kernel 4.12.14-94_41 fixes several issues. The following security issues were fixed: - CVE-2019-15917: Fixed a use-after-free when hci_uart_register_dev() fails in hci_uart_set_proto() (bsc#1156334). - CVE-2018-20856: Fixed a use-after-free in block/blk-core.c due to improper error handling (bsc#1156331). - CVE-2019-13272: Fixed a privilege escalation from user to root due to improper handling of credentials by leveraging certain scenarios with a parent-child process relationship (bsc#1156321). - CVE-2018-16871: Fixed an issue where an attacker, who could mount an exported NFS filesystem, was able to trigger a null pointer dereference by using an invalid NFS sequence leading to kernel panic and deny of access to the NFS server (bsc#1156320).

References

#1153108 #1156320 #1156321 #1156331 #1156334

Cross- CVE-2018-16871 CVE-2018-20856 CVE-2019-10220

CVE-2019-13272 CVE-2019-15917

Affected Products:

SUSE Linux Enterprise Live Patching 12-SP4

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-16871.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-20856.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-10220.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-13272.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-15917.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1153108

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1156320

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1156321

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1156331

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1156334

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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2019:3252-1
Rating: important

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