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SUSE: 2019:2600-1 Important: Live Patch 27 Buffer Overflow and Access Fixes

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Calendar Grey October 8, 2019
Dist Suse Esm H88
SUSE Security Update addresses significant issues in Linux Kernel Live Patch 27 for SLE 12 SP3, fixing buffer overflows.
An update that fixes two vulnerabilities is now available

Summary

This update for the Linux Kernel 4.4.180-94_100 fixes several issues. The following security issues were fixed: - CVE-2019-14835: A buffer overflow flaw was found in the way vhost functionality, that translates virtqueue buffers to IOVs, logged the buffer descriptors during migration. A privileged guest user able to pass descriptors with invalid length to the host when migration is underway, could use this flaw to increase their privileges on the host (bsc#1151021). - CVE-2017-18379: Fixed an out of boundary access that happened in drivers/nvme/target/fc.c (bsc#1145604). Patch Instructions: To install this SUSE Security Update use the SUSE recommended installation methods like YaST online_update or "zypper patch". Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

References

#1145604 #1151021

Cross- CVE-2017-18379 CVE-2019-14835

Affected Products:

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP 12-SP3

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP3-LTSS

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-18379.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-14835.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1145604

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1151021

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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2019:2600-1
Rating: important

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