SUSE: 2020:0456-1 Critical: Linux Kernel Security Patch for Attacks
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January 5, 2018
An update that solves 14 vulnerabilities and has three An update that solves 14 vulnerabilities and has three An update that solves 14 vulnerabilities and has three fixes is now av...
Summary
The SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 SP1 LTSS kernel was updated to receive various security and bugfixes. This update adds mitigations for various side channel attacks against modern CPUs that could disclose content of otherwise unreadable memory (bnc#1068032). - CVE-2017-5753 / "SpectreAttack": Local attackers on systems with modern CPUs featuring deep instruction pipelining could use attacker controllable speculative execution over code patterns in the Linux Kernel to leak content from otherwise not readable memory in the same address space, allowing retrieval of passwords, cryptographic keys and other secrets. This problem is mitigated by adding speculative fencing on affected code paths throughout the Linux kernel. This issue is addressed for the x86_64, IBM Power and IBM zSeries architecture.
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References
#1012422 #1045205 #1050231 #1066569 #1066693
#1067678 #1068032 #1068671 #1070771 #1070781
#1071074 #1071470 #1071693 #1071694 #1071695
#1072561 #1072876
Cross- CVE-2017-11600 CVE-2017-13167 CVE-2017-15115
CVE-2017-15868 CVE-2017-16534 CVE-2017-16538
CVE-2017-17448 CVE-2017-17449 CVE-2017-17450
CVE-2017-17558 CVE-2017-5715 CVE-2017-5753
CVE-2017-5754 CVE-2017-8824
Affected Products:
SUSE OpenStack Cloud 6
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP 12-SP1
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP1-LTSS
SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Public Cloud 12
https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-11600.html
https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-13167.html
https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-15115.html
https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-15868.html
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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2018:0031-1
Rating: important
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