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SUSE: 2020:1605-1 Important: Linux Kernel Security Issues Resolved

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Calendar Grey June 10, 2020
Dist Suse Esm H88
Major SUSE update addresses numerous kernel vulnerabilities, bolstering security for Linux platforms with a total of 94 enhancements.
An update that solves 23 vulnerabilities and has 94 fixes is now available

Summary

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 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-2020-13143: Fixed an out-of-bounds read in gadget_dev_desc_UDC_store in drivers/usb/gadget/configfs.c (bsc#1171982). - CVE-2020-12769: Fixed an issue which could have allowed attackers to cause a panic via concurrent calls to dw_spi_irq and dw_spi_transfer_one (bsc#1171983). - CVE-2020-12768: Fixed a memory leak in svm_cpu_uninit in arch/x86/kvm/svm.c (bsc#1171736).

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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2020:1605-1
Rating: important

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