SUSE: 2020:3748-1 Important: Linux Kernel Critical Fixes
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December 10, 2020
An update that solves 12 vulnerabilities and has 72 fixes is now available
Summary
The SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 SP2 kernel was updated to 3.12.31 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)
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#1179076 #1179082 #1179107 #1179140 #1179141
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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2020:3748-1
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