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SUSE: 2025:0089-1 important: kernel memory leak issues fixed

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Calendar Grey January 14, 2025
Dist Suse Esm H88
Critical patch release for SUSE Linux Kernel tackling several vulnerabilities impacting SLE 12 SP5 installations.
* bsc#1228573 * bsc#1229273 * bsc#1229553 * bsc#1232637 * bsc#1233712

Summary

## This update for the Linux Kernel 4.12.14-122_222 fixes several issues. The following security issues were fixed: * CVE-2024-50264: vsock/virtio: Initialization of the dangling pointer occurring in vsk->trans (bsc#1233712). * CVE-2022-48956: ipv6: avoid use-after-free in ip6_fragment() (bsc#1232637). * CVE-2024-43861: Fix memory leak for not ip packets (bsc#1229553). * CVE-2024-35949: btrfs: make sure that WRITTEN is set on all metadata blocks (bsc#1229273). * CVE-2024-41059: hfsplus: fix uninit-value in copy_name (bsc#1228573). ## Patch Instructions: To install this SUSE update use the SUSE recommended installation methods like YaST online_update or "zypper patch". Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product: * SUSE Linux Enterprise Live Patching 12-SP5

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security advisory kernel update important memory leak security issues SUSE Linux

References

* bsc#1228573

* bsc#1229273

* bsc#1229553

* bsc#1232637

* bsc#1233712

Cross-

* CVE-2022-48956

* CVE-2024-35949

* CVE-2024-41059

* CVE-2024-43861

* CVE-2024-50264

CVSS scores:

* CVE-2022-48956 ( SUSE ): 7.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

* CVE-2022-48956 ( NVD ): 7.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

* CVE-2024-35949 ( SUSE ): 7.0 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

* CVE-2024-41059 ( SUSE ): 7.3

CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:H/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

* CVE-2024-41059 ( SUSE ): 7.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

* CVE-2024-41059 ( NVD ): 7.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H

* CVE-2024-43861 ( SUSE ): 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2025:0089-1
Release Date: 2025-01-14T06:03:50Z
Rating: important

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