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    <h1>Security update for the Linux Kernel</h1>

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            <th>Announcement ID:</th>
            <td>SUSE-SU-2024:3617-1</td>
        </tr>
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            <th>Release Date:</th>
            <td>2024-10-14T12:07:08Z</td>
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            <th>Rating:</th>
            <td>moderate</td>
        </tr>
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            <th>References:</th>
            <td>
                <ul>
                    
                        <li style="display: inline;">
                            <a href="https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1214298">bsc#1214298</a>
                        </li>
                    
                        <li style="display: inline;">
                            <a href="https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1226606">bsc#1226606</a>
                        </li>
                    
                        <li style="display: inline;">
                            <a href="https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1227764">bsc#1227764</a>
                        </li>
                    
                        <li style="display: inline;">
                            <a href="https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1228487">bsc#1228487</a>
                        </li>
                    
                        <li style="display: inline;">
                            <a href="https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1228654">bsc#1228654</a>
                        </li>
                    
                        <li style="display: inline;">
                            <a href="https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1230434">bsc#1230434</a>
                        </li>
                    
                    
                </ul>
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                <th>
                    Cross-References:
                </th>
                <td>
                    <ul>
                    
                        <li style="display: inline;">
                            <a href="https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-38538.html">CVE-2024-38538</a>
                        </li>
                    
                        <li style="display: inline;">
                            <a href="https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-40902.html">CVE-2024-40902</a>
                        </li>
                    
                        <li style="display: inline;">
                            <a href="https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-42104.html">CVE-2024-42104</a>
                        </li>
                    
                        <li style="display: inline;">
                            <a href="https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-42148.html">CVE-2024-42148</a>
                        </li>
                    
                        <li style="display: inline;">
                            <a href="https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-45021.html">CVE-2024-45021</a>
                        </li>
                    
                    </ul>
                </td>
            </tr>
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                <th>CVSS scores:</th>
                <td>
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                            <li class="list-group-item">
                                <span class="cvss-reference">CVE-2024-38538</span>
                                <span class="cvss-source">
                                    (
                                    
                                        SUSE
                                    
                                    ):
                                </span>
                                <span class="cvss-score">4.5</span>
                                <span class="cvss-vector">CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L</span>
                            </li>
                        
                            <li class="list-group-item">
                                <span class="cvss-reference">CVE-2024-38538</span>
                                <span class="cvss-source">
                                    (
                                    
                                        NVD
                                    
                                    ):
                                </span>
                                <span class="cvss-score">7.1</span>
                                <span class="cvss-vector">CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H</span>
                            </li>
                        
                            <li class="list-group-item">
                                <span class="cvss-reference">CVE-2024-40902</span>
                                <span class="cvss-source">
                                    (
                                    
                                        SUSE
                                    
                                    ):
                                </span>
                                <span class="cvss-score">5.5</span>
                                <span class="cvss-vector">CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N</span>
                            </li>
                        
                            <li class="list-group-item">
                                <span class="cvss-reference">CVE-2024-40902</span>
                                <span class="cvss-source">
                                    (
                                    
                                        NVD
                                    
                                    ):
                                </span>
                                <span class="cvss-score">7.8</span>
                                <span class="cvss-vector">CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H</span>
                            </li>
                        
                            <li class="list-group-item">
                                <span class="cvss-reference">CVE-2024-42104</span>
                                <span class="cvss-source">
                                    (
                                    
                                        SUSE
                                    
                                    ):
                                </span>
                                <span class="cvss-score">6.9</span>
                                <span class="cvss-vector">CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:L/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N</span>
                            </li>
                        
                            <li class="list-group-item">
                                <span class="cvss-reference">CVE-2024-42104</span>
                                <span class="cvss-source">
                                    (
                                    
                                        SUSE
                                    
                                    ):
                                </span>
                                <span class="cvss-score">6.1</span>
                                <span class="cvss-vector">CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:H</span>
                            </li>
                        
                            <li class="list-group-item">
                                <span class="cvss-reference">CVE-2024-42104</span>
                                <span class="cvss-source">
                                    (
                                    
                                        NVD
                                    
                                    ):
                                </span>
                                <span class="cvss-score">7.8</span>
                                <span class="cvss-vector">CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H</span>
                            </li>
                        
                            <li class="list-group-item">
                                <span class="cvss-reference">CVE-2024-42148</span>
                                <span class="cvss-source">
                                    (
                                    
                                        SUSE
                                    
                                    ):
                                </span>
                                <span class="cvss-score">5.5</span>
                                <span class="cvss-vector">CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H</span>
                            </li>
                        
                            <li class="list-group-item">
                                <span class="cvss-reference">CVE-2024-42148</span>
                                <span class="cvss-source">
                                    (
                                    
                                        NVD
                                    
                                    ):
                                </span>
                                <span class="cvss-score">7.8</span>
                                <span class="cvss-vector">CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H</span>
                            </li>
                        
                            <li class="list-group-item">
                                <span class="cvss-reference">CVE-2024-45021</span>
                                <span class="cvss-source">
                                    (
                                    
                                        SUSE
                                    
                                    ):
                                </span>
                                <span class="cvss-score">5.5</span>
                                <span class="cvss-vector">CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H</span>
                            </li>
                        
                            <li class="list-group-item">
                                <span class="cvss-reference">CVE-2024-45021</span>
                                <span class="cvss-source">
                                    (
                                    
                                        NVD
                                    
                                    ):
                                </span>
                                <span class="cvss-score">5.5</span>
                                <span class="cvss-vector">CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H</span>
                            </li>
                        
                    </ul>
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            <th>Affected Products:</th>
            <td>
                <ul class="list-group">
                    
                        <li class="list-group-item">SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4</li>
                    
                        <li class="list-group-item">SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4 LTSS EXTREME CORE 11-SP4</li>
                    
                </ul>
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    <p>An update that solves five vulnerabilities and has one security fix can now be installed.</p>

    


    
        <h2>Description:</h2>
    
    <p>The SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 SP4 kernel was updated to receive various security bugfixes.</p>
<p>The following security bugs were fixed:</p>
<ul>
<li>CVE-2024-38538: net: bridge: xmit: make sure we have at least eth header len bytes (bsc#1226606).</li>
<li>CVE-2024-40902: jfs: xattr: fix buffer overflow for invalid xattr (bsc#1227764).</li>
<li>CVE-2024-42104: nilfs2: add missing check for inode numbers on directory entries  (bsc#1228654).</li>
<li>CVE-2024-42148: Fix multiple UBSAN array-index-out-of-bounds (bsc#1228487).</li>
<li>CVE-2024-45021: memcg_write_event_control(): fix a user-triggerable oops (bsc#1230434).</li>
</ul>
<p>The following non-security bugs were fixed:</p>
<ul>
<li>alarmtimer: Lock k_itimer during timer callback (bsc#1214298).</li>
<li>alarmtimers: Add alarm_forward functionality (bsc#1214298).</li>
<li>alarmtimers: Change alarmtimer functions to return alarmtimer_restart (bsc#1214298).</li>
<li>alarmtimers: Push rearming peroidic timers down into alamrtimer (bsc#1214298).</li>
<li>alarmtimers: Remove interval cap limit hack (bsc#1214298).</li>
<li>kABI fix for alarmtimer_restart functionality (bsc#1214298).</li>
<li>kABI fix update for alarm_forward (bsc#1214298).</li>
</ul>



    
        <h2>Special Instructions and Notes:</h2>
        <ul>
            
            
                <li>Please reboot the system after installing this update.</li>
            
            
        </ul>
    

    <h2>Patch Instructions:</h2>
    <p>
        To install this SUSE  update use the SUSE recommended
        installation methods like YaST online_update or "zypper patch".<br/>

        Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:
    </p>
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                SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4 LTSS EXTREME CORE 11-SP4
                
                    
                        <br/>
                        <code>zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-11-SP4-LTSS-EXTREME-CORE-2024-3617=1</code>
                    
                    
                
            </li>
        
            <li class="list-group-item">
                SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4
                
                    
                        <br/>
                        <code>zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-11-SP4-LTSS-EXTREME-CORE-2024-3617=1</code>
                    
                    
                
            </li>
        
    </ul>

    <h2>Package List:</h2>
    <ul>
        
            
                <li>
                    SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4 LTSS EXTREME CORE 11-SP4 (nosrc x86_64)
                    <ul>
                        
                            <li>kernel-default-3.0.101-108.165.1</li>
                        
                            <li>kernel-xen-3.0.101-108.165.1</li>
                        
                            <li>kernel-trace-3.0.101-108.165.1</li>
                        
                            <li>kernel-ec2-3.0.101-108.165.1</li>
                        
                    </ul>
                </li>
            
                <li>
                    SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4 LTSS EXTREME CORE 11-SP4 (x86_64)
                    <ul>
                        
                            <li>kernel-default-base-3.0.101-108.165.1</li>
                        
                            <li>kernel-xen-base-3.0.101-108.165.1</li>
                        
                            <li>kernel-default-devel-3.0.101-108.165.1</li>
                        
                            <li>kernel-ec2-base-3.0.101-108.165.1</li>
                        
                            <li>kernel-trace-devel-3.0.101-108.165.1</li>
                        
                            <li>kernel-source-3.0.101-108.165.1</li>
                        
                            <li>kernel-xen-devel-3.0.101-108.165.1</li>
                        
                            <li>kernel-ec2-devel-3.0.101-108.165.1</li>
                        
                            <li>kernel-trace-base-3.0.101-108.165.1</li>
                        
                            <li>kernel-syms-3.0.101-108.165.1</li>
                        
                    </ul>
                </li>
            
        
            
                <li>
                    SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4 (nosrc x86_64)
                    <ul>
                        
                            <li>kernel-default-3.0.101-108.165.1</li>
                        
                            <li>kernel-xen-3.0.101-108.165.1</li>
                        
                            <li>kernel-trace-3.0.101-108.165.1</li>
                        
                            <li>kernel-ec2-3.0.101-108.165.1</li>
                        
                    </ul>
                </li>
            
                <li>
                    SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4 (x86_64)
                    <ul>
                        
                            <li>kernel-default-base-3.0.101-108.165.1</li>
                        
                            <li>kernel-xen-base-3.0.101-108.165.1</li>
                        
                            <li>kernel-default-devel-3.0.101-108.165.1</li>
                        
                            <li>kernel-ec2-base-3.0.101-108.165.1</li>
                        
                            <li>kernel-trace-devel-3.0.101-108.165.1</li>
                        
                            <li>kernel-source-3.0.101-108.165.1</li>
                        
                            <li>kernel-xen-devel-3.0.101-108.165.1</li>
                        
                            <li>kernel-ec2-devel-3.0.101-108.165.1</li>
                        
                            <li>kernel-trace-base-3.0.101-108.165.1</li>
                        
                            <li>kernel-syms-3.0.101-108.165.1</li>
                        
                    </ul>
                </li>
            
        
    </ul>

    
        <h2>References:</h2>
        <ul>
            
                
                    <li>
                        <a href="https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-38538.html">https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-38538.html</a>
                    </li>
                
            
                
                    <li>
                        <a href="https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-40902.html">https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-40902.html</a>
                    </li>
                
            
                
                    <li>
                        <a href="https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-42104.html">https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-42104.html</a>
                    </li>
                
            
                
                    <li>
                        <a href="https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-42148.html">https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-42148.html</a>
                    </li>
                
            
                
                    <li>
                        <a href="https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-45021.html">https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-45021.html</a>
                    </li>
                
            
                
                    <li>
                        <a href="https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1214298">https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1214298</a>
                    </li>
                
            
                
                    <li>
                        <a href="https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1226606">https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1226606</a>
                    </li>
                
            
                
                    <li>
                        <a href="https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1227764">https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1227764</a>
                    </li>
                
            
                
                    <li>
                        <a href="https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1228487">https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1228487</a>
                    </li>
                
            
                
                    <li>
                        <a href="https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1228654">https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1228654</a>
                    </li>
                
            
                
                    <li>
                        <a href="https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1230434">https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1230434</a>
                    </li>
                
            
        </ul>
    
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