The SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 SP2 LTSS kernel was updated to receive various security and bugfixes.

The following security bugs were fixed :

CVE-2019-2024: A use-after-free when disconnecting a source was fixed which could lead to crashes. bnc#1129179).

CVE-2019-9213: expand_downwards in mm/mmap.c lacked a check for the mmap minimum address, which made it easier for attackers to exploit kernel NULL pointer dereferences on non-SMAP platforms. This is related to a capability check for the wrong task (bnc#1128166).

CVE-2018-14633: A security flaw was found in the chap_server_compute_md5() function in the ISCSI target code in the Linux kernel in a way an authentication request from an ISCSI initiator is processed. (bnc#1107829).

CVE-2019-7221: The KVM implementation in the Linux kernel had a Use-after-Free (bnc#1124732).

CVE-2019-7222: The KVM implementation in the Linux kernel had an Information Leak (bnc#1124735).

CVE-2019-6974: kvm_ioctl_create_device in virt/kvm/kvm_main.c mishandled reference counting because of a race condition, which led to a use-after-free (bnc#1124728).

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.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Published	Updated	Severity
123635	SUSE SLES12 Security Update : kernel (SUSE-SU-2019:0828-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	4/2/2019	5/20/2022	high
117988	openSUSE Security Update : the Linux Kernel (openSUSE-2018-1140)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	10/9/2018	1/19/2021	high

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