The SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 SP2 LTSS kernel was updated to receive various security and bugfixes. The following security bugs were fixed :

  - CVE-2018-3620: Local attackers on baremetal systems     could use speculative code patterns on hyperthreaded     processors to read data present in the L1 Datacache used     by other hyperthreads on the same CPU core, potentially     leaking sensitive data. (bnc#1087081).

  - CVE-2018-3646: Local attackers in virtualized guest     systems could use speculative code patterns on     hyperthreaded processors to read data present in the L1     Datacache used by other hyperthreads on the same CPU     core, potentially leaking sensitive data, even from     other virtual machines or the host system.
    (bnc#1089343).

  - CVE-2018-5390 aka 'SegmentSmack': The Linux Kernel can     be forced to make very expensive calls to     tcp_collapse_ofo_queue() and tcp_prune_ofo_queue() for     every incoming packet which can lead to a denial of     service (bnc#1102340).

  - CVE-2018-5391 aka 'FragmentSmack': A flaw in the IP     packet reassembly could be used by remote attackers to     consume lots of CPU time (bnc#1103097).

  - CVE-2018-14734: drivers/infiniband/core/ucma.c allowed     ucma_leave_multicast to access a certain data structure     after a cleanup step in ucma_process_join, which allowed     attackers to cause a denial of service (use-after-free)     (bnc#1103119).

  - CVE-2017-18344: The timer_create syscall implementation     in kernel/time/posix-timers.c didn't properly validate     the sigevent->sigev_notify field, which leads to     out-of-bounds access in the show_timer function (called     when /proc/$PID/timers is read). This allowed userspace     applications to read arbitrary kernel memory (on a     kernel built with CONFIG_POSIX_TIMERS and     CONFIG_CHECKPOINT_RESTORE) (bnc#1102851 bnc#1103580).

  - CVE-2018-9385: When printing the 'driver_override'     option from with-in the amba driver, a very long line     could expose one additional uninitialized byte     (bnc#1100491).

  - CVE-2018-13053: The alarm_timer_nsleep function in     kernel/time/alarmtimer.c had an integer overflow via a     large relative timeout because ktime_add_safe is not     used (bnc#1099924).

  - CVE-2018-13405: The inode_init_owner function in     fs/inode.c allowed local users to create files with an     unintended group ownership, in a scenario where a     directory is SGID to a certain group and is writable by     a user who is not a member of that group. Here, the     non-member can trigger creation of a plain file whose     group ownership is that group. The intended behavior was     that the non-member can trigger creation of a directory     (but not a plain file) whose group ownership is that     group. The non-member can escalate privileges by making     the plain file executable and SGID (bnc#1100416).

  - CVE-2018-13406: An integer overflow in the     uvesafb_setcmap function in     drivers/video/fbdev/uvesafb.c could result in local     attackers being able to crash the kernel or potentially     elevate privileges because kmalloc_array is not used     (bnc#1098016 1100418).

  - CVE-2018-5814: Multiple race condition errors when     handling probe, disconnect, and rebind operations could     be exploited to trigger a use-after-free condition or a     NULL pointer dereference by sending multiple USB over IP     packets (bnc#1096480).

The update package also includes non-security fixes. See advisory for details.

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.

SUSE SLES12 Security Update : kernel (SUSE-SU-2018:2344-1) (Foreshadow)

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