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SUSE: 2021:3460-2 Critical Update for Kernel Security Vulnerability

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Calendar Grey October 18, 2021
Dist Suse Esm H88
Stay updated on the newest developments in the Linux Kernel, highlighting essential patches that tackle security vulnerabilities from unauthorized access and data corruption risks
An update that fixes four vulnerabilities is now available

Summary

This update for the Linux Kernel 4.4.180-94_147 fixes several issues. The following security issues were fixed: - CVE-2021-3715: Fixed a user-after-free in the Linux kernel's Traffic Control networking subsystem which could lead to local privilege escalation. (bsc#1190350). - CVE-2021-38160: Fixed a bug that could lead to a data corruption or loss. This can be triggered by an untrusted device that supplies a buf->len value exceeding the buffer size in drivers/char/virtio_console.c (bsc#1190118) - CVE-2021-3640: Fixed a user-after-free bug in the function sco_sock_sendmsg which could lead to local privilege escalation. (bsc#1188613) - CVE-2021-3573: Fixed a user-after-free bug in the function hci_sock_bound_ioctl which could lead to local privilege escalation. (bsc#1187054). Patch Instructions:

References

#1187054 #1188613 #1190118 #1190350

Cross- CVE-2021-3573 CVE-2021-3640 CVE-2021-3715

CVE-2021-38160

CVSS scores:

CVE-2021-3573 (SUSE): 8.4 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CVE-2021-3640 (SUSE): 7.4 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CVE-2021-3715 (SUSE): 7.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CVE-2021-38160 (SUSE): 7 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected Products:

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP 12-SP3

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP3-LTSS

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-3573.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-3640.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-3715.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-38160.html

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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2021:3459-1
Rating: important

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