SUSE: 2018:1855-1 Important: Linux Kernel Security Update
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June 29, 2018
An update that solves 14 vulnerabilities and has 15 fixes is now available
Summary
The SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 SP2 LTSS kernel was updated receive various security and bugfixes. The following security bugs were fixed: - CVE-2018-5848: In the function wmi_set_ie(), the length validation code did not handle unsigned integer overflow properly. As a result, a large value of the 'ie_len' argument could have caused a buffer overflow (bnc#1097356) - CVE-2018-1000204: Prevent infoleak caused by incorrect handling of the SG_IO ioctl (bsc#1096728). - CVE-2017-18249: The add_free_nid function did not properly track an allocated nid, which allowed local users to cause a denial of service (race condition) or possibly have unspecified other impact via concurrent threads (bnc#1087036) - CVE-2018-3665: Prevent disclosure of FPU registers (including XMM and
References
#1068032 #1079152 #1082962 #1083650 #1083900
#1085185 #1086400 #1087007 #1087012 #1087036
#1087086 #1087095 #1089895 #1090534 #1090955
#1092497 #1092552 #1092813 #1092904 #1094033
#1094353 #1094823 #1095042 #1096140 #1096242
#1096281 #1096728 #1097356 #973378
Cross- CVE-2017-13305 CVE-2017-18241 CVE-2017-18249
CVE-2018-1000199 CVE-2018-1000204 CVE-2018-1065
CVE-2018-1092 CVE-2018-1093 CVE-2018-1094
CVE-2018-1130 CVE-2018-3665 CVE-2018-5803
CVE-2018-5848 CVE-2018-7492
Affected Products:
SUSE OpenStack Cloud 7
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP 12-SP2
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP2-LTSS
SUSE Enterprise Storage 4
OpenStack Cloud Magnum Orchestration 7
https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-13305.html
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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2018:1855-1
Rating: important
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