SUSE: 2020:3105-2 Critical: Linux Kernel Vulnerability Patch
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November 15, 2019
An update that solves 49 vulnerabilities and has two fixes is now available
Summary
The SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 SP2 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).
References
#1068032 #1084878 #1092497 #1106913 #1117665
#1135966 #1135967 #1137865 #1139550 #1140671
#1141054 #1144338 #1144903 #1145477 #1146285
#1146361 #1146378 #1146391 #1146413 #1146425
#1146512 #1146514 #1146516 #1146519 #1146584
#1147122 #1148394 #1148938 #1149376 #1149522
#1149527 #1149555 #1149612 #1149849 #1150025
#1150112 #1150223 #1150452 #1150457 #1150465
#1150466 #1151347 #1151350 #1152685 #1152782
#1152788 #1153158 #1154372 #1155671 #1155898
#1156187
Cross- CVE-2016-10906 CVE-2017-18509 CVE-2017-18595
CVE-2018-12207 CVE-2018-20976 CVE-2019-0154
CVE-2019-0155 CVE-2019-10220 CVE-2019-11135
CVE-2019-13272 CVE-2019-14814 CVE-2019-14815
CVE-2019-14816 CVE-2019-14821 CVE-2019-14835
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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2019:2984-1
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