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SUSE 12-SP5: 2022:3587-1 Critical Kernel Vulnerability Resolution

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Calendar Grey October 14, 2022
Dist Suse Esm H88
Important security patch launched for SUSE Linux tackling 8 kernel vulnerabilities. Safeguard your systems by installing the update promptly.
An update that solves 8 vulnerabilities and has 11 fixes is now available

Summary

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 SP5 kernel was updated. The following security bugs were fixed: - CVE-2022-3303: Fixed a race condition in the sound subsystem due to improper locking (bnc#1203769). - CVE-2022-41218: Fixed an use-after-free caused by refcount races in drivers/media/dvb-core/dmxdev.c (bnc#1202960). - CVE-2022-3239: Fixed an use-after-free in the video4linux driver that could lead a local user to able to crash the system or escalate their privileges (bnc#1203552). - CVE-2022-41848: Fixed a race condition and resultant use-after-free if a physically proximate attacker removes a PCMCIA device while calling ioctl (bnc#1203987). - CVE-2022-2503: Fixed a vulnerability that allowed root to bypass LoadPin and load untrusted and unverified kernel modules and firmware (bnc#1202677).

References

#1124235 #1129770 #1154048 #1190317 #1199564

#1201309 #1202097 #1202385 #1202677 #1202960

#1203098 #1203107 #1203410 #1203424 #1203462

#1203552 #1203769 #1203935 #1203987

Cross- CVE-2022-20008 CVE-2022-2503 CVE-2022-2663

CVE-2022-3239 CVE-2022-3303 CVE-2022-39188

CVE-2022-41218 CVE-2022-41848

CVSS scores:

CVE-2022-20008 (NVD) : 4.6 CVSS:3.1/AV:P/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

CVE-2022-20008 (SUSE): 6.2 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

CVE-2022-2503 (NVD) : 6.7 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CVE-2022-2503 (SUSE): 6.7 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CVE-2022-2663 (NVD) : 5.3 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

CVE-2022-2663 (SUSE): 5.9 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2022:3587-1
Rating: important

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