SUSE: 2018:0383-1 Important: Linux Kernel Security Update
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February 7, 2018
An update that solves 9 vulnerabilities and has 68 fixes is now available.
Summary
The SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 SP3 kernel was updated to 4.4.114 to receive various security and bugfixes. The following security bugs were fixed: - CVE-2017-5715: Systems with microprocessors utilizing speculative execution and indirect branch prediction may allow unauthorized disclosure of information to an attacker with local user access via a side-channel analysis (bnc#1068032). The previous fix using CPU Microcode has been complemented by building the Linux Kernel with return trampolines aka "retpolines". - CVE-2017-15129: A use-after-free vulnerability was found in network namespaces code affecting the Linux kernel in the function get_net_ns_by_id() in net/core/net_namespace.c did not check for the net::count value after it has found a peer network in netns_ids idr,
Topics Covered
References
#1005778 #1005780 #1005781 #1012382 #1012917
#1015342 #1015343 #1019784 #1022476 #1022595
#1022912 #1024296 #1024376 #1031395 #1031492
#1031717 #1037838 #1038078 #1038085 #1040182
#1043652 #1048325 #1048585 #1053472 #1060279
#1062129 #1066163 #1066223 #1068032 #1068038
#1068569 #1068984 #1069138 #1069160 #1070052
#1070799 #1072163 #1072484 #1073229 #1073928
#1074134 #1074488 #1074621 #1074709 #1074839
#1074847 #1075066 #1075078 #1075087 #1075091
#1075397 #1075428 #1075617 #1075621 #1075627
#1075811 #1075994 #1076017 #1076110 #1076187
#1076232 #1076805 #1076847 #1076872 #1076899
#1077068 #1077560 #1077592 #1077704 #1077871
#1078002 #1078681 #963844 #966170 #966172
#973818 #985025
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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2018:0383-1
Rating: important
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