Updated kernel packages fix security vulnerabilities

This kernel update is based on upstream 5.15.74 and fixes at least the following security issues: A flaw was found in the Linux kernel. The existing KVM SEV API has a vulnerability that allows a non-root host user-level application to crash the host kernel by creating a confidential guest VM...

openSUSE Security Update : the Linux Kernel (openSUSE-2020-1153)

The openSUSE Leap 15.1 kernel was updated to receive various security and bugfixes. The following security bugs were fixed : - CVE-2019-16746: An issue was discovered in net/wireless/nl80211.c where it did not check the length of variable elements in a beacon head, leading to a buffer overflow...

CVE-2019-20908: Undefined Security Weakness

An issue was discovered in drivers/firmware/efi/efi.c in the Linux kernel before 5.4. Incorrect access permissions for the efivarssdt ACPI variable could be used by attackers to bypass lockdown or secure boot restrictions, aka CID-1957a85b0032...