Security update for the Linux Kernel (Live Patch 18 for SLE 15 SP1) (Important)
Description:
This update for the Linux Kernel 4.12.14-197_67 fixes several issues.
The following security issues were fixed:
- CVE-2021-22543: Fixed an issue with KVM, related to the handling of VM_IO|VM_PFNMAP vmas, which allowed users with the ability to start and control a VM to read/write random pages of memory and could result in local privilege escalation (bsc#1186482). - CVE-2021-37576: On the powerpc platform KVM guest OS users could cause host OS memory corruption via rtas_args.nargs (bsc#1188838). - CVE-2021-3609: Fixed a local privilege escalation via a race condition in net/can/bcm.c (bsc#1187215).
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP1 SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Live Patching 15 SP1 SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Python2 packages 15 SP1 SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP1 SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP1 SUSE Linux Enterprise Workstation Extension 15 SP1