SUSE: 2019:2984-1 important: the Linux Kernel
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://www.suse.com/support/kb/ - 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). - 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 microarchit...
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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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