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SUSE Linux Enterprise 12-SP5: 2021:0098-1 Moderate Kernel Security

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Calendar Grey January 12, 2021
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Investigate the recent security advancements in the SUSE Linux Kernel that tackle 14 vulnerabilities along with 86 enhancements to ensure peak system protection.
An update that solves 14 vulnerabilities and has 86 fixes is now available

Summary

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 SP5 Azure kernel was updated to receive various security and bugfixes. The following security bugs were fixed: - CVE-2018-20669: Fixed an improper check i915_gem_execbuffer2_ioctl in drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_execbuffer.c (bsc#1122971). - CVE-2019-20934: Fixed a use-after-free in show_numa_stats() because NUMA fault statistics were inappropriately freed, aka CID-16d51a590a8c (bsc#1179663). - 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).

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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2021:0098-1
Rating: moderate

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security advisory moderate security issue kernel update Linux security system fix SUSE Linux

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