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SUSE 15 SP2: 2021:3658-1 Important Addressing Kernel Security Issues

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Calendar Grey November 11, 2021
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SUSE has issued a significant update fixing major vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel, addressing 11 security flaws that may lead to attacks or unauthorized access
An update that solves 11 vulnerabilities and has 35 fixes is now available

Summary

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 SP2 Real Time kernel was updated to receive various security and bugfixes. The following security bugs were fixed: - CVE-2021-3772: Fixed sctp vtag check in sctp_sf_ootb (bsc#1190351). - CVE-2021-3655: Fixed a missing size validations on inbound SCTP packets, which may have allowed the kernel to read uninitialized memory (bsc#1188563). - CVE-2021-43056: Fixed possible KVM host crash via malicious KVM guest on Power8 (bnc#1192107). - CVE-2021-3896: Fixed a array-index-out-bounds in detach_capi_ctr in drivers/isdn/capi/kcapi.c (bsc#1191958). - CVE-2021-3760: Fixed a use-after-free vulnerability with the ndev->rf_conn_info object (bsc#1190067). - CVE-2021-42739: The firewire subsystem had a buffer overflow related to drivers/media/firewire/firedtv-avc.c and

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#1157177 #1167773 #1172073 #1173604 #1176940

#1184673 #1185762 #1186063 #1187167 #1188563

#1189841 #1190006 #1190067 #1190349 #1190351

#1190479 #1190620 #1190642 #1190795 #1190941

#1191229 #1191241 #1191315 #1191317 #1191349

#1191384 #1191449 #1191450 #1191451 #1191452

#1191455 #1191456 #1191628 #1191731 #1191800

#1191934 #1191958 #1192040 #1192041 #1192107

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Cross- CVE-2021-3542 CVE-2021-3655 CVE-2021-3715

CVE-2021-3760 CVE-2021-3772 CVE-2021-3896

CVE-2021-41864 CVE-2021-42008 CVE-2021-42252

CVE-2021-42739 CVE-2021-43056

CVSS scores:

CVE-2021-3542 (SUSE): 6.4 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CVE-2021-3655 (SUSE): 4 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/...

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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2021:3658-1
Rating: important

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security advisory kernel fix bug fixes important update linux kernel SUSE Enterprise SUSE MicroOS

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