SUSE: 2019:2949-1 Important: Linux Kernel Denial of Service Risk
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November 12, 2019
An update that solves 49 vulnerabilities and has 18 fixes is now available
Summary
The SUSE Linux Enterprise 12-SP3 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-2019-16995: Fix a memory leak in hsr_dev_finalize() if hsr_add_port failed to add a port, which may have caused denial of service (bsc#1152685).
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References
#1051510 #1084878 #1117665 #1131107 #1133140
#1135966 #1135967 #1136261 #1137865 #1139073
#1140671 #1141013 #1141054 #1142458 #1143187
#1144123 #1144903 #1145477 #1146042 #1146163
#1146285 #1146361 #1146378 #1146391 #1146413
#1146425 #1146512 #1146514 #1146516 #1146519
#1146524 #1146526 #1146529 #1146540 #1146543
#1146547 #1146550 #1146584 #1146589 #1147022
#1147122 #1148394 #1148938 #1149083 #1149376
#1149522 #1149527 #1149555 #1149612 #1150025
#1150112 #1150452 #1150457 #1150465 #1150727
#1150942 #1151347 #1151350 #1152685 #1152782
#1152788 #1153158 #1153263 #1154103 #1154372
#1155131 #1155671
Cross- CVE-2016-10906 CVE-2017-18379 CVE-2017-18509
CVE-2017-18551 CVE-2017-18595 CVE-2018-12207
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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2019:2949-1
Rating: important
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