suse-su-2025:02932-1
Vulnerability from csaf_suse
Published
2025-08-20 18:03
Modified
2025-08-20 18:03
Summary
Security update for the Linux Kernel (Live Patch 55 for SLE 15 SP3)

Notes

Title of the patch
Security update for the Linux Kernel (Live Patch 55 for SLE 15 SP3)
Description of the patch
This update for the Linux Kernel 5.3.18-150300_59_198 fixes several issues. The following security issues were fixed: - CVE-2025-38494: HID: core: do not bypass hid_hw_raw_request (bsc#1247350). - CVE-2025-38495: HID: core: ensure the allocated report buffer can contain the reserved report ID (bsc#1247351). - CVE-2025-38079: crypto: algif_hash - fix double free in hash_accept (bsc#1245218). - CVE-2025-38083: net_sched: prio: fix a race in prio_tune() (bsc#1245350). - CVE-2024-36978: net: sched: sch_multiq: fix possible OOB write in multiq_tune() (bsc#1244631).
Patchnames
SUSE-2025-2932,SUSE-SLE-Module-Live-Patching-15-SP3-2025-2932
Terms of use
CSAF 2.0 data is provided by SUSE under the Creative Commons License 4.0 with Attribution (CC-BY-4.0).


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}


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