SUSE: 2019:2946-1 Important: Kernel Security Fixes and Updates
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November 12, 2019
An update that solves 12 vulnerabilities and has 93 fixes is now available
Summary
The SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 kernel was updated to receive various security and bugfixes. The following security bugs were fixed: - CVE-2018-12207: Untrusted virtual machines on Intel CPUs could exploit a race condition in the Instruction Fetch Unit of the Intel CPU to cause a Machine Exception during Page Size Change, causing the CPU core to be non-functional. The Linux Kernel kvm hypervisor was adjusted to avoid page size changes in executable pages by splitting / merging huge pages into small pages as needed. More information can be found on https://support.scc.suse.com/s/kb?language=en_US - CVE-2019-11135: Aborting an asynchronous TSX operation on Intel CPUs with Transactional Memory support could be used to facilitate sidechannel information leaks out of microarchitectural buffers, similar
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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2019:2946-1
Rating: important
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