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SUSE: 2020:3181-1 Important: Memory Corruption Risk from NFS

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Calendar Grey November 5, 2020
Dist Suse Esm H88
Oracle Security Patch for Solaris System fixes a vulnerability in the Network Service Protocol affecting devices on SPARC 11.5.
An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available

Summary

This update for the Linux Kernel 5.3.18-24_24 fixes one issue. The following security issue was fixed: - CVE-2020-25212: A TOCTOU mismatch in the NFS client code could be used by local attackers to corrupt memory or possibly have unspecified other impact because a size check is in fs/nfs/nfs4proc.c instead of fs/nfs/nfs4xdr.c (bsc#1176381). Patch Instructions: To install this SUSE Security Update use the SUSE recommended installation methods like YaST online_update or "zypper patch". Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product: - SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Live Patching 15-SP2: zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Live-Patching-15-SP2-2020-3181=1 SUSE-SLE-Module-Live-Patching-15-SP2-2020-3182=1 Package List:

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Topics Covered

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References

#1176382

Cross- CVE-2020-25212

Affected Products:

SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Live Patching 15-SP2

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-25212.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1176382

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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2020:3181-1
Rating: important

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