Security update for the Linux Kernel

Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2018:3100-1
Rating: important
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CVSS scores:
  • CVE-2018-17182 ( SUSE ): 7.0 CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
  • CVE-2018-17182 ( NVD ): 7.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
  • CVE-2018-17182 ( NVD ): 7.8 CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Affected Products:
  • SLES for SAP Applications 11-SP4
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 11 SP4

An update that solves one vulnerability and has one security fix can now be installed.

Description:

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 SP4 kernel was updated to receive various security and bugfixes.

The following security bugs were fixed:

  • CVE-2018-17182: An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel The vmacache_flush_all function in mm/vmacache.c mishandled sequence number overflows. An attacker can trigger a use-after-free (and possibly gain privileges) via certain thread creation, map, unmap, invalidation, and dereference operations (bnc#1108399).

The following non-security bugs were fixed:

  • x86/fpu: Do not do __thread_fpu_end() if use_eager_fpu() (bnc#1109967).

Special Instructions and Notes:

  • Please reboot the system after installing this update.

Patch Instructions:

To install this SUSE update use the SUSE recommended installation methods like YaST online_update or "zypper patch".
Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 11 SP4
    zypper in -t patch sdksp4-kernel-20181003-13812=1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4
    zypper in -t patch slessp4-kernel-20181003-13812=1
  • SLES for SAP Applications 11-SP4
    zypper in -t patch slessp4-kernel-20181003-13812=1

Package List:

  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 11 SP4 (noarch nosrc)
    • kernel-docs-3.0.101-108.77.1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4 (s390x x86_64 i586 ppc64 ia64 nosrc)
    • kernel-trace-3.0.101-108.77.1
    • kernel-default-3.0.101-108.77.1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4 (s390x x86_64 i586 ppc64 ia64)
    • kernel-trace-base-3.0.101-108.77.1
    • kernel-trace-devel-3.0.101-108.77.1
    • kernel-default-devel-3.0.101-108.77.1
    • kernel-source-3.0.101-108.77.1
    • kernel-syms-3.0.101-108.77.1
    • kernel-default-base-3.0.101-108.77.1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4 (nosrc x86_64 i586)
    • kernel-xen-3.0.101-108.77.1
    • kernel-ec2-3.0.101-108.77.1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4 (x86_64 i586)
    • kernel-xen-devel-3.0.101-108.77.1
    • kernel-ec2-devel-3.0.101-108.77.1
    • kernel-ec2-base-3.0.101-108.77.1
    • kernel-xen-base-3.0.101-108.77.1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4 (nosrc i586)
    • kernel-pae-3.0.101-108.77.1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4 (i586)
    • kernel-pae-devel-3.0.101-108.77.1
    • kernel-pae-base-3.0.101-108.77.1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4 (ppc64 nosrc)
    • kernel-bigmem-3.0.101-108.77.1
    • kernel-ppc64-3.0.101-108.77.1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4 (ppc64)
    • kernel-bigmem-devel-3.0.101-108.77.1
    • kernel-ppc64-devel-3.0.101-108.77.1
    • kernel-bigmem-base-3.0.101-108.77.1
    • kernel-ppc64-base-3.0.101-108.77.1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4 (s390x)
    • kernel-default-man-3.0.101-108.77.1
  • SLES for SAP Applications 11-SP4 (ppc64 nosrc)
    • kernel-bigmem-3.0.101-108.77.1
    • kernel-ppc64-3.0.101-108.77.1
  • SLES for SAP Applications 11-SP4 (ppc64)
    • kernel-bigmem-devel-3.0.101-108.77.1
    • kernel-ppc64-devel-3.0.101-108.77.1
    • kernel-bigmem-base-3.0.101-108.77.1
    • kernel-ppc64-base-3.0.101-108.77.1
  • SLES for SAP Applications 11-SP4 (ppc64 nosrc x86_64)
    • kernel-trace-3.0.101-108.77.1
    • kernel-default-3.0.101-108.77.1
  • SLES for SAP Applications 11-SP4 (ppc64 x86_64)
    • kernel-trace-base-3.0.101-108.77.1
    • kernel-trace-devel-3.0.101-108.77.1
    • kernel-default-devel-3.0.101-108.77.1
    • kernel-source-3.0.101-108.77.1
    • kernel-syms-3.0.101-108.77.1
    • kernel-default-base-3.0.101-108.77.1
  • SLES for SAP Applications 11-SP4 (nosrc x86_64)
    • kernel-xen-3.0.101-108.77.1
    • kernel-ec2-3.0.101-108.77.1
  • SLES for SAP Applications 11-SP4 (x86_64)
    • kernel-xen-devel-3.0.101-108.77.1
    • kernel-ec2-devel-3.0.101-108.77.1
    • kernel-ec2-base-3.0.101-108.77.1
    • kernel-xen-base-3.0.101-108.77.1

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