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SUSE: 2021:1975-1 Important: Linux Kernel Update Resolves 52 Issues

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Calendar Grey June 15, 2021
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A vital security patch from SUSE is available for the Linux Kernel, addressing 52 identified vulnerabilities along with several additional corrections.
An update that solves 52 vulnerabilities and has 250 fixes is now available

Summary

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 SP3 Azure kernel was updated to receive various security and bugfixes. The following security bugs were fixed: - CVE-2021-33200: Enforcing incorrect limits for pointer arithmetic operations by the BPF verifier could be abused to perform out-of-bounds reads and writes in kernel memory (bsc#1186484). - CVE-2021-33034: Fixed a use-after-free when destroying an hci_chan. This could lead to writing an arbitrary values. (bsc#1186111) - CVE-2020-26139: Fixed a denial-of-service when an Access Point (AP) forwards EAPOL frames to other clients even though the sender has not yet successfully authenticated to the AP. (bnc#1186062) - CVE-2021-23134: A Use After Free vulnerability in nfc sockets allowed local attackers to elevate their privileges. (bnc#1186060)

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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2021:1975-1
Rating: important

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