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SUSE-SU-2022:2721-1 Not scored

Security update for the Linux Kernel

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 kernel was updated to receive various security bugfixes. The following security bugs were fixed: - CVE-2022-36946: Fixed an incorrect packet trucation operation which could lead to denial of service (bnc#1201940). - CVE-2022-20166: Fixed several possible memory safety issues due to unsafe operations (bsc#1200598). - CVE-2020-15393: Fixed a memory leak in the usbtest driver which could lead to denial of service (bnc#1173514). - CVE-2020-36558: Fixed a race condition involving VT_RESIZEX which could lead to a NULL pointer dereference and general protection fault (bnc#1200910). - CVE-2020-36557: Fixed a race condition between the VT_DISALLOCATE ioctl and closing/opening of TTYs could lead to a use-after-free (bnc#1201429). - CVE-2021-33656: Fixed memory out of bounds write related to ioctl cmd PIO_FONT (bnc#1201636). - CVE-2021-33655: Fixed out of bounds write with ioctl FBIOPUT_VSCREENINFO (bnc#1201635). - CVE-2022-1462: Fixed an out-of-bounds read flaw in the TTY subsystem (bnc#1198829). - CVE-2022-26365, CVE-2022-33740, CVE-2022-33741, CVE-2022-33742: Fixed multiple potential data leaks with Block and Network devices when using untrusted backends (bsc#1200762). - CVE-2022-2318: Fixed a use-after-free vulnerability in the timer handler in Rose subsystem that allowed unprivileged attackers to crash the system (bsc#1201251). - CVE-2021-39713: Fixed a race condition in the network scheduling subsystem which could lead to a use-after-free (bnc#1196973). The following non-security bugs were fixed: - kvm: emulate: Do not adjust size of fastop and setcc subroutines (bsc#1201930). - kvm: emulate: Fix SETcc emulation function offsets with SLS (bsc#1201930).

Exploit probability Not scored
Published August 9, 2022
Required by Not available
Last source change February 4, 2026

02 / AFFECTED SOFTWARE

Affected packages

SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP2-BCL kernel-default
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP2-BCL kernel-source
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP2-BCL kernel-syms

03 / CONNECTIONS

Connected vulnerabilities

04 / EVIDENCE

Source records

Open Source Vulnerabilities SUSE-SU-2022:2721-1

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 kernel was updated to receive various security bugfixes. The following security bugs were fixed: - CVE-2022-36946: Fixed an incorrect packet trucation operation which could lead to denial of service (bnc#1201940). - CVE-2022-20166: Fixed several possible memory safety issues due to unsafe operations (bsc#1200598). - CVE-2020-15393: Fixed a memory leak in the usbtest driver which could lead to denial of service (bnc#1173514). - CVE-2020-36558: Fixed a race condition involving VT_RESIZEX which could lead to a NULL pointer dereference and general protection fault (bnc#1200910). - CVE-2020-36557: Fixed a race condition between the VT_DISALLOCATE ioctl and closing/opening of TTYs could lead to a use-after-free (bnc#1201429). - CVE-2021-33656: Fixed memory out of bounds write related to ioctl cmd PIO_FONT (bnc#1201636). - CVE-2021-33655: Fixed out of bounds write with ioctl FBIOPUT_VSCREENINFO (bnc#1201635). - CVE-2022-1462: Fixed an out-of-bounds read flaw in the TTY subsystem (bnc#1198829). - CVE-2022-26365, CVE-2022-33740, CVE-2022-33741, CVE-2022-33742: Fixed multiple potential data leaks with Block and Network devices when using untrusted backends (bsc#1200762). - CVE-2022-2318: Fixed a use-after-free vulnerability in the timer handler in Rose subsystem that allowed unprivileged attackers to crash the system (bsc#1201251). - CVE-2021-39713: Fixed a race condition in the network scheduling subsystem which could lead to a use-after-free (bnc#1196973). The following non-security bugs were fixed: - kvm: emulate: Do not adjust size of fastop and setcc subroutines (bsc#1201930). - kvm: emulate: Fix SETcc emulation function offsets with SLS (bsc#1201930).

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