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SUSE Linux Enterprise 11-SP4 Important: Kernel Security Update and Fixes

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Calendar Grey June 9, 2020
Dist Suse Esm H88
SUSE enhances its kernel to tackle several critical concerns, including vulnerabilities related to side channel attacks. Discover further details.
An update that solves 5 vulnerabilities and has two fixes is now available

Summary

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 SP4 kernel was updated to receive various security and bugfixes. The following security bugs were fixed: - CVE-2020-0543: Fixed a side channel attack against special registers which could have resulted in leaking of read values to cores other than the one which called it. This attack is known as Special Register Buffer Data Sampling (SRBDS) or "CrossTalk" (bsc#1154824). - CVE-2020-12652: Fixed an issue which could have allowed local users to hold an incorrect lock during the ioctl operation and trigger a race condition (bsc#1171218). - CVE-2020-12653: Fixed an issue in the wifi driver which could have allowed local users to gain privileges or cause a denial of service (bsc#1171195). - CVE-2020-12654: Fixed an issue in he wifi driver which could have

References

#1154290 #1154824 #1164871 #1170056 #1171195

#1171202 #1171218

Cross- CVE-2020-0543 CVE-2020-10690 CVE-2020-12652

CVE-2020-12653 CVE-2020-12654

Affected Products:

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11-SP4-LTSS

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11-EXTRA

SUSE Linux Enterprise Debuginfo 11-SP4

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-0543.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-10690.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-12652.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-12653.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-12654.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1154290

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1154824

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1164871

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1170056

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1171195

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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2020:14393-1
Rating: important

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