SUSE: 2019:3389-1 Critical Kernel Update Addressing Denial of Service Risks
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December 27, 2019
An update that solves 24 vulnerabilities and has 75 fixes is now available
Summary
The SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 SP5 kernel was updated to receive various security and bugfixes. The following security bugs were fixed: - CVE-2019-16746: There was an issue in net/wireless/nl80211.c where the kernel did not check the length of variable elements in a beacon head, leading to a buffer overflow (bnc#1152107). - CVE-2019-19066: Fixed memory leak in the bfad_im_get_stats() function in drivers/scsi/bfa/bfad_attr.c that allowed attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) by triggering bfa_port_get_stats() failures (bnc#1157303). - CVE-2019-19051: Fixed memory leak in the i2400m_op_rfkill_sw_toggle() function in drivers/net/wimax/i2400m/op-rfkill.c that allowed attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) (bnc#1159024).
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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2019:3389-1
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