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SUSE 2021:3178-1 Important: Kernel Security Update with 16 Fixes

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Calendar Grey September 21, 2021
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Important SUSE patch addresses 16 vulnerabilities in the Linux core, requiring immediate application and system restart.
An update that solves 16 vulnerabilities and has 94 fixes is now available

Summary

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 SP2 Azure kernel was updated to receive various security and bugfixes. The following security bugs were fixed: - CVE-2021-3759: Unaccounted ipc objects in Linux kernel could have lead to breaking memcg limits and DoS attacks (bsc#1190115). - CVE-2021-38160: Data corruption or loss could be triggered by an untrusted device that supplies a buf->len value exceeding the buffer size in drivers/char/virtio_console.c (bsc#1190117) - CVE-2021-3640: Fixed a Use-After-Free vulnerability in function sco_sock_sendmsg() in the bluetooth stack (bsc#1188172). - CVE-2021-3753: Fixed race out-of-bounds in virtual terminal handling (bsc#1190025). - CVE-2021-3743: Fixed OOB Read in qrtr_endpoint_post (bsc#1189883). - CVE-2021-3739: Fixed a NULL pointer dereference when deleting device by

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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2021:3178-1
Rating: important

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