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SUSE: 2020:0688-1 Moderate: Linux Kernel Soft Lockup Issue

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Calendar Grey March 13, 2020
Dist Suse Esm H88
SUSE Security Announcement provides remedies for Linux Kernel flaws along with guidance for installation and reboot procedures.
An update that solves three vulnerabilities and has 84 fixes is now available

Summary

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 15-SP1 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). The following non-security bugs were fixed: - ACPI: PM: Avoid attaching ACPI PM domain to certain devices (bsc#1051510). - ACPI / video: Add force_none quirk for Dell OptiPlex 9020M (bsc#1051510).

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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2020:0688-1
Rating: moderate

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security advisory moderate update fix SUSE Linux Linux Kernel soft lockup

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