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SUSE: 2021:0118-1 Important Security Update for Linux Kernel (Critical DoS)

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Calendar Grey January 14, 2021
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A critical update from SUSE addresses 14 vulnerabilities, implementing 77 corrections that bolster the security and reliability of the Linux Kernel.
An update that solves 14 vulnerabilities and has 77 fixes is now available

Summary

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 SP1 kernel was updated to receive various security and bugfixes. The following security bugs were fixed: - CVE-2020-28374: Fixed a Linux SCSI target issue (bsc#1178372). - 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-2020-0465: Fixed multiple missing bounds checks in hid-multitouch.c that could have led to local privilege escalation (bnc#1180029).

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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2021:0118-1
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