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SUSE: 2022:0764-1 Important: Branch Target Injection Fixes

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Calendar Grey March 8, 2022
Dist Suse Esm H88
The latest SUSE Linux kernel upgrade addresses a pair of security flaws and features critical patches, accompanied by necessary restart guidelines.
An update that solves two vulnerabilities and has three fixes is now available

Summary

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 SP2 RT kernel was updated to receive various security and bugfixes. Transient execution side-channel attacks attacking the Branch History Buffer (BHB), named "Branch Target Injection" and "Intra-Mode Branch History Injection" are now mitigated. The following security bugs were fixed: - CVE-2022-0001: Fixed Branch History Injection vulnerability (bsc#1191580). - CVE-2022-0002: Fixed Intra-Mode Branch Target Injection vulnerability (bsc#1191580). The following non-security bugs were fixed: - btrfs: check for missing device in btrfs_trim_fs (bsc#1195701). - lib/iov_iter: initialize "flags" in new pipe_buffer (bsc#1196584). - nfsd: allow delegation state ids to be revoked and then freed (bsc#1192483). - nfsd: allow open state ids to be revoked and then freed (bsc#1192483).

References

#1191580 #1192483 #1195701 #1195995 #1196584

Cross- CVE-2022-0001 CVE-2022-0002

CVSS scores:

CVE-2022-0001 (SUSE): 5.6 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N

CVE-2022-0002 (SUSE): 5.6 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N

Affected Products:

SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.0

SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Realtime 15-SP2

SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time 15-SP2

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-0001.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-0002.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1191580

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1192483

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1195701

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1195995

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1196584

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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2022:0764-1
Rating: important

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