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SUSE-SU-2019:2600-1 Not scored

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

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).

Exploit probability Not scored
Published October 8, 2019
Required by Not available
Last source change February 4, 2026

02 / AFFECTED SOFTWARE

Affected packages

SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP3-LTSS kgraft-patch-SLE12-SP3_Update_18
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP3-LTSS kgraft-patch-SLE12-SP3_Update_19
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP3-LTSS kgraft-patch-SLE12-SP3_Update_20
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP3-LTSS kgraft-patch-SLE12-SP3_Update_21
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP3-LTSS kgraft-patch-SLE12-SP3_Update_22
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP3-LTSS kgraft-patch-SLE12-SP3_Update_23
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP3-LTSS kgraft-patch-SLE12-SP3_Update_24
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP3-LTSS kgraft-patch-SLE12-SP3_Update_25
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP3-LTSS kgraft-patch-SLE12-SP3_Update_26
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP3-LTSS kgraft-patch-SLE12-SP3_Update_27
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP3-LTSS kgraft-patch-SLE12-SP3_Update_28
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP3 kgraft-patch-SLE12-SP3_Update_18
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP3 kgraft-patch-SLE12-SP3_Update_19
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP3 kgraft-patch-SLE12-SP3_Update_20
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP3 kgraft-patch-SLE12-SP3_Update_21
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP3 kgraft-patch-SLE12-SP3_Update_22
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP3 kgraft-patch-SLE12-SP3_Update_23
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP3 kgraft-patch-SLE12-SP3_Update_24
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP3 kgraft-patch-SLE12-SP3_Update_25
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP3 kgraft-patch-SLE12-SP3_Update_26
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP3 kgraft-patch-SLE12-SP3_Update_27
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP3 kgraft-patch-SLE12-SP3_Update_28

03 / CONNECTIONS

Connected vulnerabilities

04 / EVIDENCE

Source records

Open Source Vulnerabilities SUSE-SU-2019:2600-1

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).

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05 / REFERENCES

Further evidence