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SUSE: 2020:2577-1 Important: Local Privilege Escalation Fix for Kernel

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Calendar Grey September 9, 2020
Dist Suse Esm H88
SUSE Security Patch: This urgent patch addresses a vulnerability that allows privilege escalation within the Linux Kernel for SUSE Linux Enterprise.
An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available

Summary

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 SP2 kernel was updated to receive various security and bugfixes. The following security bug was fixed: - CVE-2020-14386: Fixed a potential local privilege escalation via memory corruption (bsc#1176069).

References

#1176069

Cross- CVE-2020-14386

Affected Products:

SUSE Linux Enterprise Workstation Extension 15-SP2

SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Live Patching 15-SP2

SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Legacy Software 15-SP2

SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Development Tools 15-SP2

SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Basesystem 15-SP2

SUSE Linux Enterprise High Availability 15-SP2

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-14386.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1176069

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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2020:2577-1
Rating: important

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