[LU-14219] kernel update [SLES15 SP2 5.3.18-24.43.2]

Related — Thu, 28 Jan 2021 00:40:22 +0000

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 SP2 kernel was updated to 3.12.31 to receive
various security and bugfixes.

The following security bugs were fixed:

CVE-2020-15436: Fixed a use after free vulnerability in fs/block_dev.c
which could have allowed local users to gain privileges or cause a
denial of service (bsc#1179141).
CVE-2020-15437: Fixed a null pointer dereference which could have
allowed local users to cause a denial of service(bsc#1179140).
CVE-2020-25668: Fixed a concurrency use-after-free in con_font_op
(bsc#1178123).
CVE-2020-25669: Fixed a use-after-free read in sunkbd_reinit()
(bsc#1178182).
CVE-2020-25704: Fixed a leak in perf_event_parse_addr_filter()
(bsc#1178393).
CVE-2020-27777: Restrict RTAS requests from userspace (bsc#1179107)
CVE-2020-28915: Fixed a buffer over-read in the fbcon code which could
have been used by local attackers to read kernel memory (bsc#1178886).
CVE-2020-28974: Fixed a slab-out-of-bounds read in fbcon which could
have been used by local attackers to read privileged information or
potentially crash the kernel (bsc#1178589).
CVE-2020-29371: Fixed uninitialized memory leaks to userspace
(bsc#1179429).
CVE-2020-25705: Fixed an issue which could have allowed to quickly scan
open UDP ports. This flaw allowed an off-path remote user to effectively
bypassing source port UDP randomization (bsc#1175721).
CVE-2020-28941: Fixed an issue where local attackers on systems with the
speakup driver could cause a local denial of service attack
(bsc#1178740).
CVE-2020-4788: Fixed an issue with IBM Power9 processors could have
allowed a local user to obtain sensitive information from the data in
the L1 cache under extenuating circumstances (bsc#1177666).
CVE-2020-29369: Fixed a race condition between certain expand functions
(expand_downwards and expand_upwards) and page-table free operations
from an munmap call, aka CID-246c320a8cfe (bnc#1173504 1179432).

The following non-security bugs were fixed:
https://lists.suse.com/pipermail/sle-security-updates/2020-December/007964.html

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[LU-14219] kernel update [SLES15 SP2 5.3.18-24.43.2]