QID 174764

Date Published: 2021-04-19

QID 174764: SUSE Enterprise Linux Security update for the Linux Kernel (SUSE-SU-2021:0738-1)

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 SP2 kernel Azure 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). by remote attackers to read or write
files via directory traversal in an XCOPY request (bsc#178372).
- CVE-2020-12362: Fixed an integer overflow in the firmware which may have
allowed a privileged user to potentially enable an escalation of
privilege via local access (bsc#1181720).
- CVE-2020-12363: Fixed an improper input validation which may have
allowed a privileged user to potentially enable a denial of service via
local access (bsc#1181735).
- CVE-2020-12364: Fixed a null pointer reference which may have allowed a
privileged user to potentially enable a denial of service via local
access (bsc#1181736 ).
- CVE-2020-12373: Fixed an expired pointer dereference which may have
allowed a privileged user to potentially enable a denial of service via
local access (bsc#1181738).
- CVE-2020-29368,CVE-2020-29374: Fixed an issue in copy-on-write
implementation which could have granted unintended write access because
of a race condition in a THP mapcount check (bsc#1179660, bsc#1179428).

Successful exploitation allows attacker to compromise the system.

  • CVSS V3 rated as High - 7.8 severity.
  • CVSS V2 rated as High - 6.9 severity.
  • Solution
    Upgrade to the latest package which contains the patch. To install this SUSE Security Update use YaST online_update. Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product. To install packages using the command line interface, use command "yum update". Refer to Suse security advisory: https://lists.suse.com/pipermail/sle-security-updates/2021-March/008445.html to address this issue and obtain further details.
    Software Advisories
    Advisory ID Software Component Link
    SUSE-SU-2021:0738-1 SUSE Enterprise Linux URL Logo lists.suse.com/pipermail/sle-security-updates/2021-March/008445.html