QID 750137

QID 750137: SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for the Linux Kernel (SUSE-SU-2021:1915-1)

The suse linux enterprise 15 sp2 rt kernel was updated to receive various security and bugfixes.
the following security bugs were fixed: - cve-2021-29650: fixed an issue with 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-2021-29155: fixed an issue that was discovered in kernel/bpf/verifier.c that performs undesirable out-of-bounds speculation on pointer arithmetic, leading to side-channel attacks that defeat spectre mitigations and obtain sensitive information from kernel memory.
Specifically, for sequences of pointer arithmetic operations, the pointer modification performed by the first operation was not correctly accounted for when restricting subsequent operations (bnc#1184942).

Note: The preceding description block is extracted directly from the security advisory. Using automation, we have attempted to clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Successful exploitation allows attacker to compromise the system.

  • CVSS V3 rated as Medium - 5.5 severity.
  • CVSS V2 rated as Low - 2.1 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: SUSE-SU-2021:1915-1 to address this issue and obtain further details.

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    Software Advisories
    Advisory ID Software Component Link
    SUSE-SU-2021:1915-1 SUSE Enterprise Linux URL Logo lists.suse.com/pipermail/sle-security-updates/2021-June/008971.html