Unscored SUSE-RU-2021:14663-1 2 CVEs

Security update for the Linux Kernel

Published Mar 9, 2021 · Updated Feb 4, 2026

Ecosystem: SUSE

Summary

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 SP4 kernel was updated to receive various security and bugfixes.

The following non-security bug was fixed:

- Fixed a regression where KVM VM hangs caused by the fix CVE-2020-29660 and CVE-2020-29661 (bsc#1182505).

Fixed packages 9

Release	Package	Fixed in
SUSE · SLES 11 SP4 Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4-LTSS	kernel-bigmem	3.0.101-108.123.1
SUSE · SLES 11 SP4 Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4-LTSS	kernel-default	3.0.101-108.123.1
SUSE · SLES 11 SP4 Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4-LTSS	kernel-ec2	3.0.101-108.123.1
SUSE · SLES 11 SP4 Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4-LTSS	kernel-pae	3.0.101-108.123.1
SUSE · SLES 11 SP4 Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4-LTSS	kernel-ppc64	3.0.101-108.123.1
SUSE · SLES 11 SP4 Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4-LTSS	kernel-source	3.0.101-108.123.1
SUSE · SLES 11 SP4 Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4-LTSS	kernel-syms	3.0.101-108.123.1
SUSE · SLES 11 SP4 Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4-LTSS	kernel-trace	3.0.101-108.123.1
SUSE · SLES 11 SP4 Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4-LTSS	kernel-xen	3.0.101-108.123.1

Vulnerabilities 2

Unscored —

CVE-2020-29660

A locking inconsistency issue was discovered in the tty subsystem of the Linux kernel through 5.9.13. drivers/tty/tty_i…

linux-raspi2 linux-hwe linux-azure linux-riscv Debian Ubuntu

Dec 9, 2020
Unscored —

CVE-2020-29661 Public exploit

A locking issue was discovered in the tty subsystem of the Linux kernel through 5.9.13. drivers/tty/tty_jobctrl.c allow…

linux-raspi2 linux-hwe linux-azure linux-riscv Debian Ubuntu

Dec 9, 2020

References

report
https://bugzilla.suse.com/1179745
report
https://bugzilla.suse.com/1182505
web
https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-29660
web
https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-29661