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SUSE Linux: 2021:0108-1 Important Update For Kernel Security

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Calendar Grey January 13, 2021
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A recent SUSE Linux Kernel security patch addresses 13 vulnerabilities, improving overall system performance through significant enhancements.
An update that solves 13 vulnerabilities and has 89 fixes is now available

Summary

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 SP2 RT kernel was updated to receive various security and bugfixes. The following security bugs were fixed: - CVE-2020-36158: Fixed a potential remote code execution in the Marvell mwifiex driver (bsc#1180559). - CVE-2020-27825: Fixed a race in the trace_open and buffer resize calls (bsc#1179960). - 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-2020-27068: Fixed an out-of-bounds read due to a missing bounds check in the nl80211_policy policy of nl80211.c (bnc#1180086). - 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

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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2021:0108-1
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