SUSE-SU-2019:2600-1

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    SUSE-SU-2019:2600-1

    Published: 8 Oct 2019Last Modified: 4 Feb 2026

    Summary: Security update for the Linux Kernel (Live Patch 25 for SLE 12 SP3)

    Details: This update for the Linux Kernel 4.4.178-94_91 fixes several issues. The following security issues were fixed: - CVE-2019-14835: A buffer overflow flaw was found in the way vhost functionality, that translates virtqueue buffers to IOVs, logged the buffer descriptors during migration. A privileged guest user able to pass descriptors with invalid length to the host when migration is underway, could use this flaw to increase their privileges on the host (bsc#1151021). - CVE-2017-18379: Fixed an out of boundary access that happened in drivers/nvme/target/fc.c (bsc#1145604).

    References: https://www.suse.com/support/update/announcement/2019/suse-su-20192600-1/, https://bugzilla.suse.com/1145604, https://bugzilla.suse.com/1151021, https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-18379, https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-14835

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: kgraft-patch-SLE12-SP3_Update_19

    Purl: pkg:rpm/suse/kgraft-patch-SLE12-SP3_Update_19&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%20for%20SAP%20Applications%2012%20SP3

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -8-2.1

    Affected versions

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High