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SUSE: 2024:0772-1 Critical Update for Nvidia Kernel Firmware Issues

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Calendar Grey March 5, 2024
Dist Suse Esm H88
The latest release of kernel-firmware-nvidia-gspx-G06 addresses several bugs, among which are critical security flaws affecting SUSE. Find out more details.
* bsc#1220552 * jsc#PED-7117 Cross-References: * CVE-2022-42265

Summary

## This update for kernel-firmware-nvidia-gspx-G06, nvidia-open-driver-G06-signed fixes the following issues: Update to 550.54.14: * Added vGPU Host and vGPU Guest support. For vGPU Host, please refer to the README.vgpu packaged in the vGPU Host Package for more details. Security issues fixed: * CVE-2024-0074: A user could trigger a NULL ptr dereference. * CVE-2024-0075: A user could overwrite the end of a buffer, leading to crashes or code execution. * CVE-2022-42265: A unprivileged user could trigger an integer overflow which could lead to crashes or code execution. * create /run/udev/static_node-tags/uaccess/nvidia${devid} symlinks also during modprobing the nvidia module; this changes the issue of not having access to /dev/nvidia${devid}, when gfxcard has been replaced by a different

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Topics Covered

security advisory critical update SUSE Linux nvidia driver openSUSE kernel firmware suse patches

References

* bsc#1220552

* jsc#PED-7117

Cross-

* CVE-2022-42265

* CVE-2024-0074

* CVE-2024-0075

CVSS scores:

* CVE-2022-42265 ( SUSE ): 5.3 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L

* CVE-2022-42265 ( NVD ): 5.3 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L

* CVE-2024-0074 ( SUSE ): 7.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H

* CVE-2024-0075 ( SUSE ): 5.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected Products:

* Basesystem Module 15-SP5

* openSUSE Leap 15.5

* Public Cloud Module 15-SP5

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 15 SP5

* SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP5

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.5

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time 15 SP5

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP5

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP5

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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2024:0772-1
Rating: important

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Topics Covered

security advisory critical update SUSE Linux nvidia driver openSUSE kernel firmware suse patches

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