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SUSE: 2018:3032-1 Critical: CVE-2018-17182 Denial of Service Risk

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Calendar Grey October 5, 2018
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SUSE releases patches addressing a significant vulnerability in the Linux Kernel. Key update specifics provided for improved security measures.
An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available

Summary

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 SP1 LTSS kernel was updated to receive a security fix. The following security bug was fixed: - CVE-2018-17182: The vmacache_flush_all function in mm/vmacache.c mishandled sequence number overflows. An attacker can trigger a use-after-free (and possibly gain privileges) via certain thread creation, map, unmap, invalidation, and dereference operations (bnc#1108399).

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security advisory DoS important kernel SUSE Linux Enterprise

References

#1108399

Cross- CVE-2018-17182

Affected Products:

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP1-LTSS

SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Public Cloud 12

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-17182.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1108399

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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2018:3032-1
Rating: important

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Topics Covered

security advisory DoS important kernel SUSE Linux Enterprise

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