The SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 SP3 kernel was updated to 3.12.31 to receive various security and bugfixes.
The following security bugs were fixed:
- CVE-2022-21127: Fixed a stale MMIO data transient which can be exploited to speculatively/transiently disclose information via spectre like attacks. (bsc#1199650)
- CVE-2022-21123: Fixed a stale MMIO data transient which can be exploited to speculatively/transiently disclose information via spectre like attacks. (bsc#1199650)
- CVE-2022-21125: Fixed a stale MMIO data transient which can be exploited to speculatively/transiently disclose information via spectre like attacks. (bsc#1199650)
- CVE-2
The SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 SP3 kernel was updated.
The following security bugs were fixed:
- CVE-2022-1016: Fixed a vulnerability in the nf_tables component of the netfilter subsystem. This vulnerability gives an attacker a powerful primitive that can be used to both read from and write to relative stack data, which can lead to arbitrary code execution. (bsc#1197227)
- CVE-2022-1048: Fixed a race Condition in snd_pcm_hw_free leading to use-after-free due to the AB/BA lock with buffer_mutex and mmap_lock. (bsc#1197331)
- CVE-2022-0850: Fixed a kernel information leak vulnerability in iov_iter.c. (bsc#1196761)
- CVE-2021-45868: Fixed a wro
The SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 SP3 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
The SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 SP3 LTSS kernel was updated to receive various security and bugfixes.
The following security bugs were fixed:
- CVE-2018-25020: Fixed an overflow in the BPF subsystem due to a mishandling of a long jump over an instruction sequence where inner instructions require substantial expansions into multiple BPF instructions. This affects kernel/bpf/core.c and net/core/filter.c (bnc#1193575).
- CVE-2019-0136: Fixed insufficient access control in the Intel(R) PROSet/Wireless WiFi Software driver that may have allowed an unauthenticated user to potentially enable denial of service via adjacent access (bnc#1193157).
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The SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 SP3 LTSS kernel was updated to receive various security and bugfixes.
The following security bugs were fixed:
- Unprivileged BPF has been disabled by default to reduce attack surface as too many security issues have happened in the past (jsc#SLE-22573)
You can reenable via systemctl setting /proc/sys/kernel/unprivileged_bpf_disabled to 0. (kernel.unprivileged_bpf_disabled = 0)
- CVE-2021-31916: An out-of-bounds (OOB) memory write flaw was found in list_devices in drivers/md/dm-ioctl.c in the Multi-device driver module in the Linux kernel A bound check failure allowed an attacker with special user (CAP_SYS_
The SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 SP3 kernel was updated to receive various security and bugfixes.
The following security bugs were fixed:
- CVE-2021-22555: Fixed an heap out-of-bounds write in net/netfilter/x_tables.c that could allow local provilege escalation. (bsc#1188116)
- CVE-2021-33909: Fixed an out-of-bounds write in the filesystem layer that allows to obtain full root privileges. (bsc#1188062)
- CVE-2021-3609: Fixed a race condition in the CAN BCM networking protocol which allows for local privilege escalation. (bsc#1187215)
- CVE-2021-0605: Fixed an out-of-bounds read which could lead to local information disclosure in the kernel with
The SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 SP2 LTSS kernel was updated to receive various security and bugfixes.
The following security bugs were fixed:
- CVE-2020-36312: Fixed an issue in virt/kvm/kvm_main.c that had a kvm_io_bus_unregister_dev memory leak upon a kmalloc failure (bnc#1184509).
- CVE-2021-29650: Fixed an issue inside the netfilter subsystem that allowed attackers to cause a denial of service (panic) because net/netfilter/x_tables.c and include/linux/netfilter/x_tables.h lack a full memory barrier upon the assignment of a new table value (bnc#1184208).
- CVE-2020-27673: Fixed an issue in Xen where a guest OS users could have caused a den
The SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 SP3 kernel was updated to receive various security and bugfixes.
The following security bugs were fixed:
- CVE-2021-26930: Fixed an improper error handling in blkback's grant mapping (XSA-365 bsc#1181843).
- CVE-2021-26931: Fixed an issue where Linux kernel was treating grant mapping errors as bugs (XSA-362 bsc#1181753).
- CVE-2021-26932: Fixed improper error handling issues in Linux grant mapping (XSA-361 bsc#1181747).
- CVE-2020-28374: Fixed insufficient identifier checking in the LIO SCSI target code which could have been used
by remote attackers to read or write files via directory traversal in an XCOPY
The SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 SP3 kernel was updated to receive various security and bugfixes.
The following security bugs were fixed:
- CVE-2021-3347: A use-after-free was discovered in the PI futexes during fault handling, allowing local users to execute code in the kernel (bnc#1181349).
- CVE-2020-25211: Fixed a buffer overflow in ctnetlink_parse_tuple_filter() which could be triggered by a local attackers by injecting conntrack netlink configuration (bnc#1176395).
- CVE-2020-27835: A use-after-free in the infiniband hfi1 driver was found, specifically in the way user calls Ioctl after open dev file and fork. A local user could use this
The SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 SP3 kernel was updated to receive various security and bug fixes.
The following security bugs were fixed:
- CVE-2020-25705: A flaw in the way reply ICMP packets are limited in was found that allowed to quickly scan open UDP ports. This flaw allowed an off-path remote user to effectively bypassing source port UDP randomization. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to confidentiality and possibly integrity, because software and services that rely on UDP source port randomization (like DNS) are indirectly affected as well. Kernel versions may be vulnerable to this issue (bsc#1175721, bsc#1178782).
- CVE-
The SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 SP3 kernel was updated to receive various security and bugfixes.
The following security bugs were fixed:
- CVE-2020-14314: Fixed a potential negative array index in do_split() (bsc#1173798).
- CVE-2020-14331: Fixed a missing check in vgacon scrollback handling (bsc#1174205).
- CVE-2020-16166: Fixed a potential issue which could have allowed remote attackers to make observations that help to obtain sensitive information about the internal state of the network RNG (bsc#1174757).
- CVE-2019-16746: Fixed an improper check of the length of variable elements in a beacon head, leading to a buffer overflow (bsc#1152107)
The SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 SP3 kernel was updated to receive various security and bugfixes.
The following security bugs were fixed:
- CVE-2020-10135: Legacy pairing and secure-connections pairing authentication in Bluetooth may have allowed an unauthenticated user to complete authentication without pairing credentials via adjacent access. An unauthenticated, adjacent attacker could impersonate a Bluetooth BR/EDR master or slave to pair with a previously paired remote device to successfully complete the authentication procedure without knowing the link key (bnc#1171988).
- CVE-2020-10711: A NULL pointer dereference flaw was found in the S
The SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 SP3 kernel was updated to receive various security and bugfixes.
The following security bugs were fixed:
- CVE-2020-10768: Fixed an issue with the prctl() function which could have allowed indirect branch speculation even after it has been disabled (bsc#1172783).
- CVE-2020-10767: Fixed an issue where the Indirect Branch Prediction Barrier (IBPB) would have been disabled when STIBP is unavailable or enhanced IBRS is available making the system vulnerable to spectre v2 (bsc#1172782).
- CVE-2020-10766: Fixed an issue with Linux scheduler which could have allowed an attacker to turn off the SSBD protection (bsc#117
The SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 SP3 kernel was updated to receive various security and bugfixes.
The following security bugs were fixed:
- CVE-2020-0543: Fixed a side channel attack against special registers which could have resulted in leaking of read values to cores other than the one which called it.
This attack is known as Special Register Buffer Data Sampling (SRBDS) or 'CrossTalk' (bsc#1154824).
- CVE-2020-12652: Fixed an issue which could have allowed local users to hold an incorrect lock during the ioctl operation and trigger a race condition (bsc#1171218).
- CVE-2020-12653: Fixed an issue in the wifi driver which could have allowed
The SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 SP3 kernel was updated to receive various security and bugfixes.
The following security bugs were fixed:
- CVE-2020-11494: An issue was discovered in slc_bump in drivers/net/can/slcan.c, which allowed attackers to read uninitialized can_frame data, potentially containing sensitive information from kernel stack memory, if the configuration lacks CONFIG_INIT_STACK_ALL (bnc#1168424).
- CVE-2020-10942: In get_raw_socket in drivers/vhost/net.c lacks validation of an sk_family field, which might allow attackers to trigger kernel stack corruption via crafted system calls (bnc#1167629).
- CVE-2020-8647: Fixed a use-aft
The SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 SP 3 LTSS kernel was updated to receive various security and bugfixes.
The following security bugs were fixed:
- CVE-2019-14895: A heap-based buffer overflow was discovered in the Linux kernel in Marvell WiFi chip driver. The flaw could occur when the station attempts a connection negotiation during the handling of the remote devices country settings. This could have allowed the remote device to cause a denial of service (system crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code (bnc#1157158).
- CVE-2019-18660: The Linux kernel on powerpc allowed Information Exposure because the Spectre-RSB mitigation is not in place fo
The SUSE Linux Enterprise 12-SP3 kernel was updated to receive various security and bugfixes.
The following security bugs were fixed:
- CVE-2018-12207: Untrusted virtual machines on Intel CPUs could exploit a race
condition in the Instruction Fetch Unit of the Intel CPU to cause a Machine
Exception during Page Size Change, causing the CPU core to be non-functional.
The Linux Kernel kvm hypervisor was adjusted to avoid page size changes in
executable pages by splitting / merging huge pages into small pages as
needed. More information can be found on https://www.suse.com/support/kb/doc/?id=7023735
- CVE-2019-16995: Fix a memory l
The SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 SP3 kernel was updated to receive various security and bugfixes.
The following security bugs were fixed:
- CVE-2019-1125: Enable Spectre v1 swapgs mitigations (bsc#1139358).
- CVE-2018-20855: An issue was discovered in create_qp_common in drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx5/qp.c, mlx5_ib_create_qp_resp was never initialized, resulting in a leak of stack memory to userspace (bsc#1143045).
- CVE-2019-14284: The drivers/block/floppy.c allowed a denial of service by setup_format_params division-by-zero. Two consecutive ioctls can trigger the bug: the first one should set the drive geometry with .sect and .rate values that ma
The SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 SP3 kernel was updated to receive various security and bugfixes.
The following security bugs were fixed:
- CVE-2019-10638: In the Linux kernel, a device could be tracked by an attacker using the IP ID values the kernel produces for connection-less protocols (e.g., UDP and ICMP). When such traffic was sent to multiple destination IP addresses, it was possible to obtain hash collisions (of indices to the counter array) and thereby obtain the hashing key (via enumeration). An attack may have been conducted by hosting a crafted web page that uses WebRTC or gQUIC to force UDP traffic to attacker-controlled IP addres
The SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 SP3 kernel was updated to 4.4.180 to receive various security and bugfixes.
The following security bugs were fixed:
- CVE-2019-11477: A sequence of SACKs may have been crafted such that one can trigger an integer overflow, leading to a kernel panic.
- CVE-2019-11478: It was possible to send a crafted sequence of SACKs which will
fragment the TCP retransmission queue. An attacker may have been able to further exploit the fragmented queue to cause an
expensive linked-list walk for subsequent SACKs received for that same TCP connection.
- CVE-2019-11479: An attacker could force the Linux kernel to segment its resp