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SUSE: 2019:2950-1 Important: Kernel Security Update and System Fixes

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Calendar Grey November 12, 2019
Dist Suse Esm H88
An important update from SUSE addresses 40 vulnerabilities in the Linux Kernel, delivering significant improvements aimed at bolstering system reliability.
An update that solves 40 vulnerabilities and has 9 fixes is now available

Summary

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 SP1 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

References

#1117665 #1123959 #1137586 #1137865 #1137944

#1139073 #1139751 #1142857 #1144903 #1145477

#1145922 #1146042 #1146163 #1146285 #1146361

#1146378 #1146391 #1146413 #1146425 #1146512

#1146514 #1146516 #1146519 #1146524 #1146526

#1146529 #1146540 #1146543 #1146547 #1146584

#1146612 #1147122 #1148938 #1149376 #1149522

#1149527 #1149555 #1150025 #1150112 #1150452

#1150457 #1150465 #1151347 #1151350 #1152782

#1152788 #1153119 #1155671 #999278

Cross- CVE-2016-10906 CVE-2017-18509 CVE-2017-18551

CVE-2017-18595 CVE-2018-12207 CVE-2018-20976

CVE-2019-10207 CVE-2019-10220 CVE-2019-11135

CVE-2019-11477 CVE-2019-14814 CVE-2019-14815

CVE-2019-14816 CVE-2019-14821 CVE-2019-14835

CVE-2019-15098 CVE-2019-15118 CVE-2019-...

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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2019:2950-1
Rating: important

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