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SUSE: 2020:0649-1 Moderate Update for Linux Kernel Security Issue

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Calendar Grey March 12, 2020
Dist Suse Esm H88
SUSE Security Update for Linux Kernel fixes vulnerabilities and enhances security protocols with critical patches.
An update that solves four vulnerabilities and has 80 fixes is now available

Summary

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 12-SP4 kernel-RT was updated to 4.12.14 to receive various security and bugfixes. The following security bugs were fixed: - CVE-2020-8992: Fixed an issue in ext4_protect_reserved_inode in fs/ext4/block_validity.c that allowed attackers to cause a soft lockup via a crafted journal size (bsc#1164069). - CVE-2020-8648: Fixed a use-after-free vulnerability in the n_tty_receive_buf_common function in drivers/tty/n_tty.c (bsc#1162928). - CVE-2020-2732: Fixed an issue affecting Intel CPUs where an L2 guest may trick the L0 hypervisor into accessing sensitive L1 resources (bsc#1163971). - CVE-2020-8428: There was a use-after-free bug in fs/namei.c, which allowed local users to cause a denial of service (OOPS) or possibly

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security advisory moderate denial of service kernel update SUSE use-after-free soft lockup

References

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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2020:0649-1
Rating: moderate

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate denial of service kernel update SUSE use-after-free soft lockup

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