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SUSE: CVE-2017-17741: SUSE Linux Security Advisory

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SUSE: CVE-2017-17741: SUSE Linux Security Advisory

Severity
2
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
12/18/2017
Created
07/25/2018
Added
02/14/2018
Modified
02/04/2022

Description

The KVM implementation in the Linux kernel through 4.14.7 allows attackers to obtain potentially sensitive information from kernel memory, aka a write_mmio stack-based out-of-bounds read, related to arch/x86/kvm/x86.c and include/trace/events/kvm.h.

Solution(s)

  • suse-upgrade-kernel-azure-base
  • suse-upgrade-kernel-default
  • suse-upgrade-kernel-default-extra
  • suse-upgrade-kernel-default-man
  • suse-upgrade-kernel-devel-azure
  • suse-upgrade-kernel-docs
  • suse-upgrade-kernel-obs-build
  • suse-upgrade-kernel-source-azure

References

  • SUSE-SU-2018:0437-1
  • SUSE-SU-2018:0525-1
  • SUSE-SU-2018:0555-1
  • SUSE-SU-2018:0660-1
  • SUSE-SU-2018:0841-1
  • SUSE-SU-2018:1772-1
  • SUSE-SU-2018:1816-1
  • SUSE-SU-2019:1287-1
  • 102227
  • USN-3617-1
  • USN-3617-2
  • USN-3617-3
  • USN-3619-1
  • USN-3619-2
  • USN-3620-1
  • USN-3620-2
  • USN-3632-1
  • DSA-4073
  • DSA-4082
  • CVE-2017-17741
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