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SUSE: 2021:1625-1 Important: Kernel Bugfixes and Security Issues

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Calendar Grey May 18, 2021
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Critical patch for SUSE Linux Kernel addresses 32 security flaws with a total of 85 corrections. Vital for maintaining system stability.
An update that solves 32 vulnerabilities and has 85 fixes is now available

Summary

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 SP2 kernel RT was updated to receive various security and bugfixes. The following security bugs were fixed: - CVE-2021-3444: Fixed an issue with the bpf verifier which did not properly handle mod32 destination register truncation when the source register was known to be 0 leading to out of bounds read (bsc#1184170). - CVE-2021-3428: Fixed an integer overflow in ext4_es_cache_extent (bsc#1173485). - CVE-2021-29647: Fixed an issue in qrtr_recvmsg which could have allowed attackers to obtain sensitive information from kernel memory because of a partially uninitialized data structure (bsc#1184192 ). - CVE-2021-29265: Fixed an issue in usbip_sockfd_store which could have allowed attackers to cause a denial of service due to race conditions

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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2021:1625-1
Rating: important

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