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SUSE-SU-2018:3100-1 Not scored

Security update for the Linux Kernel

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 SP4 kernel was updated to receive various security and bugfixes. The following security bugs were fixed: - CVE-2018-17182: An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel 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). The following non-security bugs were fixed: - x86/fpu: Do not do __thread_fpu_end() if use_eager_fpu() (bnc#1109967).

Exploit probability Not scored
Published October 11, 2018
Required by Not available
Last source change February 4, 2026

02 / AFFECTED SOFTWARE

Affected packages

SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4 kernel-bigmem
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4 kernel-default
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4 kernel-ec2
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4 kernel-pae
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4 kernel-ppc64
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4 kernel-source
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4 kernel-syms
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4 kernel-trace
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4 kernel-xen
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 11 SP4 kernel-bigmem
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 11 SP4 kernel-default
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 11 SP4 kernel-ec2
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 11 SP4 kernel-pae
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 11 SP4 kernel-ppc64
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 11 SP4 kernel-source
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 11 SP4 kernel-syms
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 11 SP4 kernel-trace
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 11 SP4 kernel-xen
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 11 SP4 kernel-docs

03 / CONNECTIONS

Connected vulnerabilities

04 / EVIDENCE

Source records

Open Source Vulnerabilities SUSE-SU-2018:3100-1

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 SP4 kernel was updated to receive various security and bugfixes. The following security bugs were fixed: - CVE-2018-17182: An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel 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). The following non-security bugs were fixed: - x86/fpu: Do not do __thread_fpu_end() if use_eager_fpu() (bnc#1109967).

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05 / REFERENCES

Further evidence