The SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 SP2 kernel was updated to to receive various security and bugfixes.

The following security bugs were fixed :

CVE-2020-14314: Fixed a potential negative array index in do_split() (bsc#1173798).

CVE-2020-14331: Fixed a missing check in vgacon scrollback handling (bsc#1174205).

CVE-2020-16166: Fixed a potential issue which could have allowed remote attackers to make observations that help to obtain sensitive information about the internal state of the network RNG (bsc#1174757).

CVE-2019-16746: Fixed an improper check of the length of variable elements in a beacon head, leading to a buffer overflow (bsc#1152107).

CVE-2020-14386: Fixed a potential local privilege escalation via memory corruption (bsc#1176069).

The update package also includes non-security fixes. See advisory for details.

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 SP1 realtime kernel was updated to receive various security and bugfixes.

The following security bugs were fixed :

CVE-2020-14314: Fixed a potential negative array index in do_split() (bsc#1173798).

CVE-2020-14356: Fixed a NULL pointer dereference in cgroupv2 subsystem which could have led to privilege escalation (bsc#1175213).

CVE-2020-14331: Fixed a missing check in vgacon scrollback handling (bsc#1174205).

CVE-2020-16166: Fixed a potential issue which could have allowed remote attackers to make observations that help to obtain sensitive information about the internal state of the network RNG (bsc#1174757).

CVE-2020-24394: Fixed an issue which could set incorrect permissions on new filesystem objects when the filesystem lacks ACL support (bsc#1175518).

The update package also includes non-security fixes. See advisory for details.

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Published	Updated	Severity
140476	SUSE SLES12 Security Update : kernel (SUSE-SU-2020:2576-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	9/10/2020	2/21/2024	critical
143833	SUSE SLES15 Security Update : kernel (SUSE-SU-2020:2631-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	12/9/2020	2/5/2024	high

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