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SUSE: 2019:0845-1 Important: Live Patch 8 Fixing Kernel Issues

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Calendar Grey April 2, 2019
Dist Suse Esm H88
Crucial SUSE Security Patch for the Linux Kernel tackling several vulnerabilities with Live Patch 8 for SLE 15.
An update that fixes four vulnerabilities is now available

Summary

This update for the Linux Kernel 4.12.14-25_28 fixes several issues. The following security issues were fixed: - CVE-2019-9213: Expand_downwards in mm/mmap.c lacked a check for the mmap minimum address, which made it easier for attackers to exploit kernel NULL pointer dereferences on non-SMAP platforms. This is related to a capability check for the wrong task (bsc#1128378). - CVE-2019-8912: af_alg_release() in crypto/af_alg.c neglected to set a NULL value for a certain structure member, which could have led to a use-after-free in sockfs_setattr (bsc#1126284). - CVE-2019-7221: Fixed a user-after-free vulnerability in the KVM hypervisor related to the emulation of a preemption timer, allowing an guest user/process to crash the host kernel. (bsc#1124734).

References

#1124729 #1124734 #1126284 #1128378

Cross- CVE-2019-6974 CVE-2019-7221 CVE-2019-8912

CVE-2019-9213

Affected Products:

SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Live Patching 15

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-6974.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-7221.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-8912.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-9213.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1124729

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1124734

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1126284

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1128378

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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2019:0845-1
Rating: important

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