SUSE: 2020:2576-1 Important: Kernel Security Update Fixes Bugs
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September 9, 2020
An update that solves 5 vulnerabilities and has one errata is now available
Summary
The SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 SP2 kernel was updated to to receive various security and bugfixes. The following security bugs were fixed: - CVE-2020-14314: Fixed a potential negative array index in do_split() (bsc#1173798). - CVE-2020-14331: Fixed a missing check in vgacon scrollback handling (bsc#1174205). - CVE-2020-16166: Fixed a potential issue which could have allowed remote attackers to make observations that help to obtain sensitive information about the internal state of the network RNG (bsc#1174757). - CVE-2019-16746: Fixed an improper check of the length of variable elements in a beacon head, leading to a buffer overflow (bsc#1152107). - CVE-2020-14386: Fixed a potential local privilege escalation via memory corruption (bsc#1176069). The following non-security bug was fixed:
Topics Covered
References
#1152107 #1173798 #1174205 #1174757 #1175691
#1176069
Cross- CVE-2019-16746 CVE-2020-14314 CVE-2020-14331
CVE-2020-14386 CVE-2020-16166
Affected Products:
SUSE OpenStack Cloud 7
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP 12-SP2
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP2-LTSS
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP2-BCL
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Availability 12-SP2
https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-16746.html
https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-14314.html
https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-14331.html
https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-14386.html
https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-16166.html
https://bugzilla.suse.com/1152107
https://bugzilla.suse.com/1173798
https://bugzilla.suse.com/1174205
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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2020:2576-1
Rating: important
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