suse-su-2018:3032-2
Vulnerability from csaf_suse
Published
2019-03-22 09:42
Modified
2019-03-22 09:42
Summary
Security update for the Linux Kernel

Notes

Title of the patch
Security update for the Linux Kernel
Description of the patch
The SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 SP1 LTSS kernel was updated to receive a security fix. The following security bug was fixed: - CVE-2018-17182: 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).
Patchnames
SUSE-SLE-SAP-12-SP1-2019-526
Terms of use
CSAF 2.0 data is provided by SUSE under the Creative Commons License 4.0 with Attribution (CC-BY-4.0).


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