SUSE: 2018:3618-1 Important: Kernel Update Denial of Service Issue
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November 5, 2018
An update that solves four vulnerabilities and has 5 fixes is now available
Summary
The SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 SP3 LTSS kernel was updated to receive various security and bugfixes. The following security bugs were fixed: - 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 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
#1099922 #1102870 #1106095 #1107829 #1108227
#1109967 #1110247 #1113337 #905299
Cross- CVE-2018-12896 CVE-2018-14617 CVE-2018-14633
CVE-2018-16276
Affected Products:
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11-SP3-LTSS
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11-EXTRA
SUSE Linux Enterprise Point of Sale 11-SP3
SUSE Linux Enterprise Debuginfo 11-SP3
https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-12896.html
https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-14617.html
https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-14633.html
https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-16276.html
https://bugzilla.suse.com/1099922
https://bugzilla.suse.com/1102870
https://bugzilla.suse.com/1106095
https://bugzilla.suse.com/1107829
https://bugzilla.suse.com/1108227
https://bugzilla.suse.com/1109967
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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2018:3618-1
Rating: important
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