SUSE SLES12 Security Update : kernel (SUSE-SU-2018:2096-1)
Medium Nessus Plugin ID 111445
Synopsis
The remote SUSE host is missing one or more security updates.
Description
This update for the Linux Kernel 3.12.61-52_122 fixes several issues.
The following security issue was fixed :
- CVE-2018-3665: System software utilizing Lazy FP state restore technique on systems using Intel Core-based microprocessors may potentially have allowed a local process to infer data from another process via a speculative execution side channel (bsc#1090338, bsc#1096740).
Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.
Solution
To install this SUSE Security 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 Server 12-LTSS:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-2018-1424=1