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SUSE: 2021:4052-1 Important: Kernel Live Patch Fixes Security Issues

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Calendar Grey December 14, 2021
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An important security patch has been issued for the Fedora Linux Kernel, addressing severe vulnerabilities that impact operating systems.
An update that fixes two vulnerabilities is now available

Summary

This update for the Linux Kernel 4.4.180-94_150 fixes several issues. The following security issues were fixed: - CVE-2021-0935: In ip6_xmit of ip6_output.c, there is a possible out of bounds write due to a use after free. This could lead to local escalation of privilege with System execution privileges needed. User interaction is not needed for exploitation. (bsc#1192032) - CVE-2021-28688: The fix for XSA-365 includes initialization of pointers such that subsequent cleanup code wouldn't use uninitialized or stale values. This initialization went too far and may under certain conditions also overwrite pointers which are in need of cleaning up. The lack of cleanup would result in leaking persistent grants. The leak in turn would prevent fully cleaning up after a respective guest has died,

References

#1182294 #1192042

Cross- CVE-2021-0935 CVE-2021-28688

CVSS scores:

CVE-2021-0935 (SUSE): 7.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CVE-2021-28688 (NVD) : 6.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H

CVE-2021-28688 (SUSE): 6.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/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-2021-0935.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-28688.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1182294

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1192042

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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2021:4052-1
Rating: important

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