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SUSE: 2018:2344-2 Important: Data Leak and DoS Issues in Linux Kernel

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Calendar Grey October 18, 2018
Dist Suse Esm H88
Essential security improvement for the Linux Kernel addresses ten vulnerabilities, comprising possible information exposure and service disruptions.
An update that solves 11 vulnerabilities and has 18 fixes is now available

Summary

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 SP2 LTSS kernel was updated to receive various security and bugfixes. The following security bugs were fixed: - CVE-2018-3620: Local attackers on baremetal systems could use speculative code patterns on hyperthreaded processors to read data present in the L1 Datacache used by other hyperthreads on the same CPU core, potentially leaking sensitive data. (bnc#1087081). - CVE-2018-3646: Local attackers in virtualized guest systems could use speculative code patterns on hyperthreaded processors to read data present in the L1 Datacache used by other hyperthreads on the same CPU core, potentially leaking sensitive data, even from other virtual machines or the host system. (bnc#1089343). - CVE-2018-5390 aka "SegmentSmack": The Linux Kernel can be forced to make

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security advisory denial of service bug fix important SUSE data leak Linux Kernel

References

#1064232 #1076110 #1083635 #1085042 #1086652

#1087081 #1089343 #1090123 #1091171 #1094248

#1096130 #1096480 #1096978 #1097140 #1097551

#1098016 #1098425 #1098435 #1099924 #1100089

#1100416 #1100418 #1100491 #1101557 #1102340

#1102851 #1103097 #1103119 #1103580

Cross- CVE-2017-18344 CVE-2018-13053 CVE-2018-13405

CVE-2018-13406 CVE-2018-14734 CVE-2018-3620

CVE-2018-3646 CVE-2018-5390 CVE-2018-5391

CVE-2018-5814 CVE-2018-9385

Affected Products:

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP2-BCL

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-18344.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-13053.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-13405.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-13406.html

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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2018:2344-2
Rating: important

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