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SUSE: CVE-2018-25020: SUSE Linux Security Advisory

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SUSE: CVE-2018-25020: SUSE Linux Security Advisory

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
12/08/2021
Created
01/18/2022
Added
01/14/2022
Modified
02/18/2022

Description

The BPF subsystem in the Linux kernel before 4.17 mishandles situations with a long jump over an instruction sequence where inner instructions require substantial expansions into multiple BPF instructions, leading to an overflow. This affects kernel/bpf/core.c and net/core/filter.c.

Solution(s)

  • suse-upgrade-kernel-debug-base
  • suse-upgrade-kernel-default
  • suse-upgrade-kernel-default-extra
  • suse-upgrade-kernel-default-man
  • suse-upgrade-kernel-docs
  • suse-upgrade-kernel-kvmsmall-base
  • suse-upgrade-kernel-obs-build
  • suse-upgrade-kernel-vanilla
  • suse-upgrade-kernel-vanilla-base
  • suse-upgrade-kernel-vanilla-devel
  • suse-upgrade-kernel-vanilla-livepatch-devel
  • suse-upgrade-kernel-zfcpdump-man

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