Security update for the Linux Kernel (Live Patch 2 for SLE 15 SP2) (Important)
Description:
This update for the Linux Kernel 5.3.18-24_12 fixes several issues.
The following security issues were fixed:
- CVE-2020-25212: A TOCTOU mismatch in the NFS client code could be used by local attackers to corrupt memory or possibly have unspecified other impact because a size check is in fs/nfs/nfs4proc.c instead of fs/nfs/nfs4xdr.c (bsc#1176381). - CVE-2020-14386: Fixed a memory corruption which could have lead to an attacker gaining root privileges from unprivileged processes. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to data confidentiality and integrity (bsc#1176069).