SUSE: 2019:2948-1 important: the Linux Kernel
Summary
The SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 SP4 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://www.suse.com/support/kb/ 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 to the previously described "Microarchitectural Data Sampling" attack. The Linux kernel was supplemented with the option to disable TSX operation a...
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#1051510 #1082635 #1083647 #1090631 #1096254
#1117665 #1119461 #1119465 #1123034 #1135966
#1135967 #1137040 #1138190 #1139073 #1140090
#1143706 #1144338 #1144903 #1146612 #1149119
#1150457 #1151225 #1152624 #1153476 #1153509
#1153969 #1154737 #1154848 #1154858 #1154905
#1154959 #1155178 #1155179 #1155184 #1155186
#1155671
Cross- CVE-2018-12207 CVE-2019-0154 CVE-2019-0155
CVE-2019-10220 CVE-2019-11135 CVE-2019-16233
Affected Products:
SUSE Linux Enterprise Live Patching 12-SP4
https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-12207.html
https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-0154.html
https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-0155.html
https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-10220.html
https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-11135.html
https://www.suse.com/security...
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