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SUSE: 2021:1650-1 Critical: Linux Kernel Security Vulnerability Patch

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Calendar Grey May 18, 2021
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Critical update for SUSE Linux Kernel fixes 35 vulnerabilities enhancing security and system performance.
An update that solves 35 vulnerabilities and has 12 fixes is now available

Summary

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 SP1 LTSS kernel was updated to receive various security and bugfixes. The following security bugs were fixed: - CVE-2020-36312: Fixed an issue in virt/kvm/kvm_main.c that had a kvm_io_bus_unregister_dev memory leak upon a kmalloc failure (bnc#1184509). - CVE-2021-29650: Fixed an issue inside the netfilter subsystem that allowed attackers to cause a denial of service (panic) because net/netfilter/x_tables.c and include/linux/netfilter/x_tables.h lack a full memory barrier upon the assignment of a new table value (bnc#1184208). - CVE-2021-29155: Fixed an issue within kernel/bpf/verifier.c that performed undesirable out-of-bounds speculation on pointer arithmetic, leading to side-channel attacks that defeat Spectre mitigations and

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security advisory memory leak system stability Denial of Service SUSE Linux important update Linux Kernel

References

#1047233 #1172455 #1173485 #1176720 #1177411

#1178181 #1179454 #1180197 #1181960 #1182011

#1182672 #1182715 #1182716 #1182717 #1183022

#1183063 #1183069 #1183509 #1183593 #1183646

#1183686 #1183696 #1183775 #1184120 #1184167

#1184168 #1184170 #1184192 #1184193 #1184194

#1184196 #1184198 #1184208 #1184211 #1184388

#1184391 #1184393 #1184397 #1184509 #1184511

#1184512 #1184514 #1184583 #1184650 #1184942

#1185113 #1185244

Cross- CVE-2020-0433 CVE-2020-25670 CVE-2020-25671

CVE-2020-25672 CVE-2020-25673 CVE-2020-27170

CVE-2020-27171 CVE-2020-27673 CVE-2020-27815

CVE-2020-35519 CVE-2020-36310 CVE-2020-36311

CVE-2020-36312 CVE-2020-36322 CVE-2021-20219

CVE-2021-27363 CVE-2021-27364 CVE-2021-27365

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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2021:1624-1
Rating: important

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security advisory memory leak system stability Denial of Service SUSE Linux important update Linux Kernel

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