SUSE-SU-2026:1078-1 Security update for the Linux Kernel

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 SP5 kernel was updated to receive various security bugfixes. The following security bugs were fixed: - CVE-2022-50453: gpiolib: cdev: fix NULL-pointer dereferences bsc1250887. - CVE-2023-53794: cifs: fix session state check in reconnect to avoid use-after-free issue...

CVE-2022-50453

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: gpiolib: cdev: fix NULL-pointer dereferences There are several places where we can crash the kernel by requesting lines, unbinding the GPIO device, then calling any of the system calls relevant to the GPIO character device's...