openSUSE Security Update : the Linux Kernel (openSUSE-2020-2161)

The openSUSE Leap 15.2 kernel was updated to receive various security and bugfixes. The following security bugs were fixed : - CVE-2020-29369: There was a race condition between certain expand functions expanddownwards and expandupwards and page-table free operations from an munmap call, aka...

CVE-2020-28974

A slab-out-of-bounds read in fbcon in the Linux kernel before 5.9.7 could be used by local attackers to read privileged information or potentially crash the kernel, aka CID-3c4e0dff2095. This occurs because KDFONTOPCOPY in drivers/tty/vt/vt.c can be used for manipulations such as font height...

Design/Logic Flaw

A slab-out-of-bounds read in fbcon in the Linux kernel before 5.9.7 could be used by local attackers to read privileged information or potentially crash the kernel, aka CID-3c4e0dff2095. This occurs because KDFONTOPCOPY in drivers/tty/vt/vt.c can be used for manipulations such as font height...

CVE-2020-28974

A slab-out-of-bounds read in fbcon in the Linux kernel before 5.9.7 could be used by local attackers to read privileged information or potentially crash the kernel, aka CID-3c4e0dff2095. This occurs because KDFONTOPCOPY in drivers/tty/vt/vt.c can be used for manipulations such as font height...