This update for kernel-firmware fixes the following issues :

  - CVE-2020-12373: Fixed an expired pointer dereference may     lead to DOS (bsc#1181738).

  - CVE-2020-12364: Fixed a NULL pointer reference may lead     to DOS (bsc#1181736). 

  - CVE-2020-12362: Fixed an integer overflow which could     have led to privilege escalation (bsc#1181720).

  - CVE-2020-12363: Fixed an improper input validation which     may have led to DOS (bsc#1181735).

This update was imported from the SUSE:SLE-15-SP1:Update update project.

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 SP2 kernel RT 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).

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 SP2 kernel 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).

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
147774	openSUSE Security Update : kernel-firmware (openSUSE-2021-407)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	3/15/2021	5/10/2022	high
147591	SUSE SLES15 Security Update : kernel (SUSE-SU-2021:0735-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	3/10/2021	1/10/2024	high
147563	openSUSE Security Update : the Linux Kernel (openSUSE-2021-393)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	3/10/2021	1/10/2024	high
147579	SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 Security Update : kernel (SUSE-SU-2021:0741-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	3/10/2021	1/10/2024	high

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