SUSE: 2022:0767-1 Important: Kernel Update Addresses Critical Issues
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March 8, 2022
An update that solves 10 vulnerabilities, contains one feature and has 50 fixes is now available
Summary
The SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 SP5 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). - CVE-2022-0617: Fixed a null pointer dereference in UDF file system functionality. A local user could crash the system by triggering udf_file_write_iter() via a malicious UDF image. (bsc#1196079) - CVE-2022-0644: Fixed a denial of service by a local user. A assertion
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References
#1046306 #1050244 #1089644 #1094978 #1097583
#1097584 #1097585 #1097586 #1097587 #1097588
#1101674 #1101816 #1103991 #1109837 #1111981
#1112374 #1114648 #1114685 #1114893 #1117495
#1118661 #1119113 #1136460 #1136461 #1157038
#1157923 #1158533 #1174852 #1185377 #1185973
#1187716 #1189126 #1191271 #1191580 #1191655
#1193857 #1193867 #1194048 #1194516 #1195080
#1195377 #1195536 #1195543 #1195612 #1195638
#1195795 #1195823 #1195840 #1195897 #1195908
#1195934 #1195949 #1195987 #1195995 #1196079
#1196155 #1196400 #1196516 #1196584 #1196612
SLE-20809
Cross- CVE-2021-44879 CVE-2021-45095 CVE-2022-0001
CVE-2022-0002 CVE-2022-0487 CVE-2022-0492
CVE-2022-0617 CVE-2022-0644 CVE-2022-24448
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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2022:0767-1
Rating: important
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