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Mageia 6 MGASA-2018-0391 Critical Kernel Denial of Service Issues

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Calendar Grey September 22, 2018
Dist Mageia Esm H88
The newest kernel improvement tackles several security vulnerabilities, including Denial of Service and L1 Terminal Fault issues, tailored for Mageia 6, including vital updates
This kernel update is based on the upstream 4.14.70 and adds additional fixes for the L1TF security issues

Summary

This kernel update is based on the upstream 4.14.70 and adds additional fixes for the L1TF security issues. It also fixes atleast the following security issues:
Linux kernel from versions 3.9 and up, is vulnerable to a denial of service attack with low rates of specially modified packets targeting IP fragment re-assembly. An attacker may cause a denial of service condition by sending specially crafted IP fragments (CVE-2018-5391, FragmentSmack).
A security flaw was found in the ip_frag_reasm() function in net/ipv4/ip_fragment.c in the Linux kernel caused by fixes for CVE-2018-5391, which can cause a later system crash in ip_do_fragment(). With certain non-default, but non-rare, configuration of a victim host, an attacker can trigger this crash remotely, thus leading to a remote denial-of-service (CVE-2018-14641).
An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel through 4.18.8. The vmacache_flush_all function in mm/vmacache.c mishandles sequence number overflows. An attacker can trigger a...

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References

- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23586

- https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/ChangeLog-4.14.70

- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-5391

- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-14641

- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-17182

Resolution

SRPMS

- 6/core/kernel-4.14.70-2.mga6

- 6/core/kernel-userspace-headers-4.14.70-2.mga6

- 6/core/kmod-vboxadditions-5.2.18-6.mga6

- 6/core/kmod-virtualbox-5.2.18-6.mga6

- 6/core/kmod-xtables-addons-2.13-66.mga6

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Publication date: 22 Sep 2018
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2018-0391.html
Type: security
CVE: CVE-2018-5391, CVE-2018-14641, CVE-2018-17182

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