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SUSE 15 SP2: 2020:3713-1 Important: Kernel Access Issues and DoS

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Calendar Grey December 8, 2020
Dist Suse Esm H88
SUSE has released a Security Update addressing 15 vulnerabilities and providing 71 corrections for the Linux kernel. It is advisable to implement this update to enhance security.
An update that solves 15 vulnerabilities, contains one feature and has 71 fixes is now available

Summary

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 SP2 Azure kernel was updated to receive various security and bugfixes. The following security bugs were fixed: - CVE-2020-15436: Fixed a use after free vulnerability in fs/block_dev.c which could have allowed local users to gain privileges or cause a denial of service (bsc#1179141). - CVE-2020-15437: Fixed a null pointer dereference which could have allowed local users to cause a denial of service(bsc#1179140). - CVE-2020-25668: Fixed a concurrency use-after-free in con_font_op (bsc#1178123). - CVE-2020-25669: Fixed a use-after-free read in sunkbd_reinit() (bsc#1178182). - CVE-2020-25704: Fixed a leak in perf_event_parse_addr_filter() (bsc#1178393). - CVE-2020-27777: Restrict RTAS requests from userspace (bsc#1179107)

References

#1149032 #1152489 #1153274 #1154353 #1154852

#1155518 #1160634 #1166146 #1166166 #1167030

#1167773 #1170139 #1170415 #1170446 #1171073

#1171558 #1172873 #1174527 #1175306 #1175918

#1176109 #1176180 #1176200 #1176481 #1176586

#1176855 #1176983 #1177066 #1177070 #1177353

#1177397 #1177666 #1177703 #1177820 #1178123

#1178182 #1178227 #1178286 #1178304 #1178330

#1178393 #1178401 #1178426 #1178461 #1178579

#1178581 #1178584 #1178585 #1178589 #1178591

#1178635 #1178653 #1178659 #1178661 #1178669

#1178686 #1178740 #1178755 #1178762 #1178838

#1178853 #1178886 #1179001 #1179012 #1179014

#1179015 #1179045 #1179076 #1179082 #1179107

#1179140 #1179141 #1179160 #1179201 #1179211

#1179217 #117...

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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2020:3713-1
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