SUSE Linux 12-SP3 Advisory: 2019-0901-1 Important Kernel Security Fixes
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April 8, 2019
An update that solves 8 vulnerabilities and has 102 fixes is now available
Summary
The SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 SP3 Azure kernel was updated to 4.4.176 to receive various security and bugfixes. The following security bugs were fixed: - CVE-2019-2024: A use-after-free when disconnecting a source was fixed which could lead to crashes. bnc#1129179). - 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 (bnc#1128166). - CVE-2019-6974: kvm_ioctl_create_device in virt/kvm/kvm_main.c mishandled reference counting because of a race condition, leading to a use-after-free. (bnc#1124728) - CVE-2019-3459, CVE-2019-3460: The Bluetooth stack suffered from two
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#1012382 #1020413 #1023175 #1031492 #1042286
#1050549 #1065600 #1070767 #1075697 #1078355
#1082943 #1086095 #1086652 #1087036 #1087092
#1090435 #1094823 #1099810 #1102875 #1102877
#1102879 #1102882 #1102896 #1102959 #1103429
#1105428 #1106061 #1106105 #1106929 #1107866
#1109137 #1109248 #1109695 #1114893 #1116345
#1116653 #1117108 #1117645 #1117744 #1119019
#1119680 #1119843 #1120017 #1120691 #1120722
#1120758 #1120902 #1121713 #1121726 #1121805
#1122650 #1122651 #1122779 #1122885 #1123321
#1123323 #1123357 #1123933 #1124166 #1124235
#1124728 #1124732 #1124735 #1124775 #1124777
#1124780 #1124811 #1125000 #1125014 #1125315
#1125446 #1125794 #1125796 #1125808 #1125809
#1125810 #112...
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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2019:0901-1
Rating: important
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