[LU-14375] kernel update [SLES15 SP2 5.3.18-24.46.1]

• 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-2020-28374: Fixed a Linux SCSI target issue (bsc#1178372).
• CVE-2020-36158: Fixed a potential remote code execution in the Marvell
  mwifiex driver (bsc#1180559).
• CVE-2020-27825: Fixed a race in the trace_open and buffer resize calls
  (bsc#1179960).
• CVE-2020-0466: Fixed a use-after-free due to a logic error in
  do_epoll_ctl and ep_loop_check_proc of eventpoll.c (bnc#1180031).
• CVE-2020-27068: Fixed an out-of-bounds read due to a missing bounds
  check in the nl80211_policy policy of nl80211.c (bnc#1180086).
• CVE-2020-0444: Fixed a bad kfree due to a logic error in
  audit_data_to_entry (bnc#1180027).
• CVE-2020-0465: Fixed multiple missing bounds checks in hid-multitouch.c
  that could have led to local privilege escalation (bnc#1180029).
• CVE-2020-29661: Fixed a locking issue in the tty subsystem that allowed
  a use-after-free attack against TIOCSPGRP (bsc#1179745).
• CVE-2020-29660: Fixed a locking inconsistency in the tty subsystem that
  may have allowed a read-after-free attack against TIOCGSID (bnc#1179745).
• CVE-2020-27777: Fixed a privilege escalation in the Run-Time Abstraction
  Services (RTAS) interface, affecting guests running on top of PowerVM or
  KVM hypervisors (bnc#1179107).
• CVE-2020-29373: Fixed an unsafe handling of the root directory during
  path lookups in fs/io_uring.c (bnc#1179434).
• CVE-2020-11668: Fixed the mishandling of invalid descriptors in the
  Xirlink camera USB driver (bnc#1168952).
• CVE-2020-27830: Fixed a null pointer dereference in speakup
  (bsc#1179656).
• CVE-2020-29370: Fixed a race condition in kmem_cache_alloc_bulk
  (bnc#1179435).
• CVE-2020-27786: Fixed a use after free in kernel midi subsystem
  snd_rawmidi_kernel_read1() (bsc#1179601).

The following non-security bugs were fixed:
https://lists.suse.com/pipermail/sle-security-updates/2021-January/008196.html

Issue Links

• is related to: LU-14451 kernel update [SLES15 SP2 5.3.18-24.49.2]
• is related to: LU-14219 kernel update [SLES15 SP2 5.3.18-24.43.2]