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SUSE: CVE-2019-3016: SUSE Linux Security Advisory

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SUSE: CVE-2019-3016: SUSE Linux Security Advisory

Severity
2
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
01/31/2020
Created
02/10/2022
Added
02/04/2022
Modified
02/04/2022

Description

In a Linux KVM guest that has PV TLB enabled, a process in the guest kernel may be able to read memory locations from another process in the same guest. This problem is limit to the host running linux kernel 4.10 with a guest running linux kernel 4.16 or later. The problem mainly affects AMD processors but Intel CPUs cannot be ruled out.

Solution(s)

  • suse-upgrade-kernel-default

References

  • USN-4300-1
  • USN-4301-1
  • CVE-2019-3016

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