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October 15, 2020 3:16 pm

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SUSE Releases Fixes for BleedingTooth Vulnerabilities

Yesterday evening, Google and Intel published a new set of software vulnerabilities that affect machines running Linux Kernels that use Bluetooth. The set of vulnerabilities, called BleedingTooth, impact SUSE Linux Enterprise systems with enabled Bluetooth hardware. There are 3 separate issues bundled into this set: CVE-2020-24490 (BadVibes): A heap overflow when processing extended advertising report […]

Categories: Server, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server

By: Jason Phippen

April 24, 2019 11:00 am

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The DevOps Edge with SUSE Manager

SUSE Manager brings the power of DevOps to your enterprise Linux environment. DevOps is an IT management philosophy that requires speed, efficiency, and confidence. A DevOps environment is constantly evolving—containers spin up, new applications appear, tools are tested, and updates happen—all without stoppages or significant downtime. The professionals who work in […]

Tags: CVE, DevOps, Linux, SUSE Manager

Categories: SUSE Manager

By: Jason Phippen

January 15, 2019 6:11 pm

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Managing compliance for Linux systems with SUSE Manager

Many industries and governments require compliance with security standards to ensure security, identity, confidentiality, and data integrity. These standards specify a minimum security level and also mandate measures such as logging and auditing to reveal any hints of unauthorized use. Some of the most widely adopted standards are: Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX)—a US standard intended to […]

Tags: CVE, Linux, Salt, SLES, SUSE Manager

Categories: SUSE Manager, SUSE News

By: Alexander Bergmann

December 22, 2017 3:37 am

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We will switch to CVSS v3.0 starting in 2018

After our announcement back in January this year, and a transition phase where we scored both version 2 and version 3, we will finally switch entirely to the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) version 3.0 for vulnerability assessment with the beginning of 2018. Customers who automatically check our v2 scoring will no longer see […]

Categories: SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop, SUSE Linux Enterprise Live Patching, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, Technical Solutions

By: Marcus Meissner

September 5, 2017 8:33 pm

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Our CVE Pages – self help to security issues in SUSE Linux Enterprise

SUSE CVE Pages SUSE offers various self-service options for getting information on Security Issues. One of these self-service options that are intended for human consumption are our CVE Pages. For every CVE that might be related to our products we provide a webpage with our current status. These pages cover SUSE Enterprise products, and also […]

Categories: Server, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, Technical Solutions

By: Colin Hamilton

March 31, 2017 10:20 am

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Security Vulnerability Scanners on Enterprise Linux

Colin Hamilton coming at you again from the SUSE team. In this post I want to discuss security vulnerability scanners and their role in an Enterprise Linux environment like SUSE. This role is a common pitfall I've seen that lead customers to our support team. So what's the problem? Well, vulnerability scanners are kinda dumb. […]

Categories: Technical Solutions

By: SUSE

January 16, 2017 9:17 am

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SUSE will move to CVSS v3.0

One aspect of IT security is risk assessment and risk management. Newly announced or discovered vulnerabilities need to be evaluated and put into context to understand the impact they have. A widely-used framework to measure such issues is the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS). In practice currently two versions - CVSS v2 released in 2007 […]

Categories: SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server

By: Rich Paredes

August 4, 2015 11:42 am

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Stay Up On Latest Security Vulnerabilities

Staying updated on the latest security vulnerabilities can be daunting which can understandably lead you to ask whether a particular version of SLES is vulnerable. The first thing to note when you get a security notification, for example from https://cve.mitre.org, https://nvd.nist.gov, or even by word of mouth, is the CVE identifier […]

Categories: SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, Technical Solutions