SUSE: 2020:1663-1 Important: The Linux Kernel Critical Issue Patch
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June 18, 2020
An update that solves 55 vulnerabilities and has 93 fixes is now available
Summary
The SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 kernel was updated 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-2020-9383: Fixed an out-of-bounds read due to improper error condition check of FDC index (bsc#1165111). - CVE-2020-8992: Fixed an issue which could have allowed attackers to cause a soft lockup via a crafted journal size (bsc#1164069). - CVE-2020-8834: Fixed a stack corruption which could have lead to kernel panic (bsc#1168276). - CVE-2020-8649: Fixed a use-after-free in the vgacon_invert_region
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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2020:1663-1
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