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SUSE: 2022:3072-1 Important: Remote DoS And Memory Corruption Fixes

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Calendar Grey September 5, 2022
Dist Suse Esm H88
The recent Linux Kernel patch addresses four serious vulnerabilities, notably including risks associated with remote denial of service attacks and potential memory corruption flaws.
An update that fixes four vulnerabilities is now available

Summary

This update for the Linux Kernel 5.14.21-150400_24_11 fixes several issues. The following security issues were fixed: - CVE-2020-36516: Fixed an off-path attack via mixed IPID assignment method with the hash-based IPID assignment policy to inject data into a victim's TCP session or terminate that session (bsc#1196867). - CVE-2021-39698: Fixed possible memory corruption in aio_poll_complete_work of aio.c, that could have led to local escalation of privilege with no additional execution privileges needed (bsc#1196959). - CVE-2022-2585: Fixed use-after-free in POSIX CPU timer (bsc#1202163). - CVE-2022-36946: Fixed a remote denial of service attack inside nfqnl_mangle in net/netfilter/nfnetlink_queue.c, in the case of an nf_queue verdict with a one-byte nfta_payload attribute, an skb_pull can

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References

#1196867 #1196959 #1201941 #1202163

Cross- CVE-2020-36516 CVE-2021-39698 CVE-2022-2585

CVE-2022-36946

CVSS scores:

CVE-2020-36516 (NVD) : 5.9 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:L

CVE-2020-36516 (SUSE): 8.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H

CVE-2021-39698 (NVD) : 7.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CVE-2021-39698 (SUSE): 7.4 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CVE-2022-2585 (SUSE): 8.4 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CVE-2022-36946 (NVD) : 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CVE-2022-36946 (SUSE): 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected Products:

SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15-SP4

SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Live Patching 15-SP4

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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2022:3072-1
Rating: important

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