SUSE Linux 12-SP5: 2020:0667-1 Important: Kernel Security Fixes
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March 13, 2020
An update that solves 6 vulnerabilities and has 102 fixes is now available
Summary
The SUSE Linux Enterprise 12-SP5 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-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 (bsc#1152107).
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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2020:0667-1
Rating: important
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