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SUSE: 2018:3265-1 Important: Live Kernel Patch Denial Of Service

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Calendar Grey October 22, 2018
Dist Suse Esm H88
Critical update released for the SUSE Linux kernel addressing significant security issues and vulnerabilities impacting SLE 12 systems.
An update that fixes two vulnerabilities is now available

Summary

This update for the Linux Kernel 3.12.61-52_146 fixes several issues. The following security issues were fixed: - CVE-2018-14633: A security flaw was found in the chap_server_compute_md5() function in the ISCSI target code in the Linux kernel 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 built (i.e. depending on a compiler, compile flags and hardware architecture) an attack may lead to a system crash and thus to a denial-of-service or possibly to a non-authorized access to data exported by an iSCSI target. Due to the nature of the flaw, privilege

References

#1102682 #1107832

Cross- CVE-2018-14633 CVE-2018-5390

Affected Products:

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-LTSS

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-14633.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-5390.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1102682

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1107832

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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2018:3265-1
Rating: important

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