[LU-14127] kernel update [SLES15 SP2 5.3.18-24.34.1]

• Type: Improvement
• Resolution: Won't Fix
• Priority: Minor
• Assignee: Jian Yu
• Reporter: Jian Yu

Description

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 SP2 kernel was updated to receive various
security and bugfixes.

The following security bugs were fixed:

• CVE-2020-25285: A race condition between hugetlb sysctl handlers in
  mm/hugetlb.c could be used by local attackers to corrupt memory, cause a
  NULL pointer dereference, or possibly have unspecified other impact
  (bnc#1176485).
• CVE-2020-16120: Fixed permission check to open real file when using
  overlayfs. It was possible to have a file not readable by an
  unprivileged user be copied to a mountpoint controlled by that user and
  then be able to access the file. (bsc#1177470)
• CVE-2020-14351: Fixed a race condition in the perf_mmap_close() function
  (bsc#1177086).

The following non-security bugs were fixed:
https://lists.suse.com/pipermail/sle-security-updates/2020-November/007685.html

Issue Links

• is related to: LU-14133 kernel update [SLES15 SP2 5.3.18-24.37.1]
• is related to: LU-14078 kernel update [SLES15 SP2 5.3.18-24.29.2]