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SUSE: 2022:0198-1 Important: Privilege Escalation and DoS Fix

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Calendar Grey January 26, 2022
Dist Suse Esm H88
SUSE Linux Kernel security update fixes multiple issues, requiring a reboot to apply. Stay secure with the latest patches.
An update that solves 10 vulnerabilities and has 33 fixes is now available

Summary

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 SP3 kernel was updated to receive various security and bugfixes. The following security bugs were fixed: - CVE-2022-0185: Incorrect param length parsing in legacy_parse_param which could have led to a local privilege escalation (bsc#1194517). - CVE-2022-0322: Fixed a denial of service in SCTP sctp_addto_chunk (bsc#1194985). - CVE-2021-4197: Fixed a cgroup issue where lower privileged processes could write to fds of lower privileged ones that could lead to privilege escalation (bsc#1194302). - CVE-2021-46283: nf_tables_newset in net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c in the Linux kernel allowed local users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and general protection fault) because of the missing initialization for nft_set_elem_expr_alloc. A local user can set a

References

#1065729 #1071995 #1154353 #1154492 #1156395

#1167773 #1176447 #1176774 #1177437 #1190256

#1191271 #1191929 #1192931 #1193255 #1193328

#1193660 #1193669 #1193727 #1193901 #1193927

#1194001 #1194027 #1194087 #1194094 #1194266

#1194302 #1194493 #1194516 #1194517 #1194518

#1194529 #1194578 #1194580 #1194584 #1194586

#1194587 #1194589 #1194590 #1194591 #1194592

#1194888 #1194953 #1194985

Cross- CVE-2021-4083 CVE-2021-4135 CVE-2021-4149

CVE-2021-4197 CVE-2021-4202 CVE-2021-45485

CVE-2021-45486 CVE-2021-46283 CVE-2022-0185

CVE-2022-0322

CVSS scores:

CVE-2021-4083 (SUSE): 7.4 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CVE-2021-4135 (SUSE): 5.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

CVE-2021-4149 (SUSE):...

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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2022:0198-1
Rating: important

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