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SUSE: 2021:0096-1 Moderate: Important Kernel Fixes and Enhancements

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Calendar Grey January 12, 2021
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An update from SUSE tackles 12 security flaws in the Linux Kernel, enhancing both stability and protection.
An update that solves 12 vulnerabilities and has 93 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-2020-0444: Fixed a bad kfree due to a logic error in audit_data_to_entry (bnc#1180027). - CVE-2020-0465: Fixed multiple missing bounds checks in hid-multitouch.c that could have led to local privilege escalation (bnc#1180029). - CVE-2020-0466: Fixed a use-after-free due to a logic error in do_epoll_ctl and ep_loop_check_proc of eventpoll.c (bnc#1180031). - CVE-2020-11668: Fixed the mishandling of invalid descriptors in the Xirlink camera USB driver (bnc#1168952). - CVE-2020-27068: Fixed an out-of-bounds read due to a missing bounds check in the nl80211_policy policy of nl80211.c (bnc#1180086).

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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2021:0096-1
Rating: moderate

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