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SUSE: 2022:0241-1 Important: Linux Kernel Live Patch for SLE 15 SP2

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Calendar Grey January 31, 2022
Dist Suse Esm H88
A critical SUSE patch addresses five vulnerabilities in the Linux Kernel, strengthening overall system security.
An update that fixes four vulnerabilities is now available

Summary

This update for the Linux Kernel 5.3.18-24_75 fixes several issues. The following security issues 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-2021-4154: Fixed option parsing with cgroups version 1 (bsc#1193842). - CVE-2020-3702: Fixed a bug which could be triggered with specifically timed and handcrafted traffic and cause internal errors in a WLAN device that lead to improper layer 2 Wi-Fi encryption with a consequent possibility of information disclosure. (bsc#1191193) - CVE-2021-42739: The firewire subsystem had a buffer overflow related to drivers/media/firewire/firedtv-avc.c and drivers/media/firewire/firedtv-ci.c, because avc_ca_pmt mishandled bounds checking (bsc#1184673).

References

#1191529 #1192036 #1194461 #1194737

Cross- CVE-2020-3702 CVE-2021-4154 CVE-2021-42739

CVE-2022-0185

CVSS scores:

CVE-2020-3702 (NVD) : 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

CVE-2020-3702 (SUSE): 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

CVE-2021-4154 (SUSE): 8.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

CVE-2021-42739 (SUSE): 8.4 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CVE-2022-0185 (SUSE): 7.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected Products:

SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Live Patching 15-SP2

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-3702.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-4154.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-42739.html

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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2022:0241-1
Rating: important

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