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SUSE: 2018:3159-1 Important: Linux Kernel Security Fix and Update

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Calendar Grey October 16, 2018
Dist Suse Esm H88
Red Hat Security Patch for OS Kernel addressing two security flaws resolved. Significant, urgent security advisories included.
An update that solves two vulnerabilities and has 52 fixes is now available

Summary

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 kernel was updated to receive various security and bugfixes. The following security bugs were 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). - CVE-2018-14633: A security flaw was found in the chap_server_compute_md5() function in the ISCSI target code in a way an authentication request from an ISCSI initiator is processed. An unauthenticated remote attacker can cause a stack buffer overflow and smash up to 17 bytes of the stack. The attack requires the iSCSI target to be enabled on the victim host. Depending on how the target's code was

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security advisory denial of service security fix important kernel authentication SUSE Linux Enterprise

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#1110639 #1110642 #1110643 #1110644 #1110645

#1110646 #1110647 #1110649 #1110650

Cross- CVE-2018-14633 CVE-2018-17182

Affected Products:

SUSE Linux Enterprise Workstation Extension 15

SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Legacy Software 15

SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Development Tools 15

SUSE Linux Enter...

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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2018:3159-1
Rating: important

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security advisory denial of service security fix important kernel authentication SUSE Linux Enterprise

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