SUSE: 2020:2580-1 Important: Local Privilege Escalation Fix
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September 9, 2020
An update that solves one vulnerability and has 30 fixes is now available
Summary
The SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 SP2 Azure 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). The following non-security bugs were fixed: - bcache: allocate meta data pages as compound pages (bsc#1172873). - block: check queue's limits.discard_granularity in __blkdev_issue_discard() (bsc#1152148). - block: improve discard bio alignment in __blkdev_issue_discard() (bsc#1152148). - char: virtio: Select VIRTIO from VIRTIO_CONSOLE (bsc#1175667). - dax: do not print error message for non-persistent memory block device (bsc#1171073). - dax: print error message by pr_info() in __generic_fsdax_supported() (bsc#1171073).
References
#1065600 #1136666 #1152148 #1155798 #1156395
#1170232 #1171000 #1171073 #1171558 #1172419
#1172873 #1173060 #1173267 #1174029 #1174110
#1174111 #1174484 #1174486 #1175263 #1175667
#1175787 #1175952 #1175996 #1175997 #1175998
#1175999 #1176000 #1176001 #1176022 #1176063
#1176069
Cross- CVE-2020-14386
Affected Products:
SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Public Cloud 15-SP2
- kabi/severities: ignore kABI for net/ethernet/mscc/
bsc#1176001,bsc#1175999 Exported symbols from drivers/net/ethernet/mscc/
are only used by drivers/net/dsa/ocelot/
- mei: fix CNL itouch device number to match the spec (bsc#1175952).
- mei: me: disable mei interface on LBG servers (bsc#1175952).
- mei: me: disable mei interface on Mehlow server platforms (bsc#1175952).
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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2020:2580-1
Rating: important
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