File _patchinfo of Package patchinfo.8954

<patchinfo incident="8954">
  <issue id="1108399" tracker="bnc">VUL-0:  CVE-2018-17182: kernel-source: fix vmacache counter flushing</issue>
  <issue id="2018-17182" tracker="cve" />
  <category>security</category>
  <rating>important</rating>
  <packager>alnovak</packager>
  <reboot_needed/>
  <description>
The SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 SP1 LTSS kernel was updated to receive a security fix.

The following security bug was fixed:

- CVE-2018-17182: 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).

</description>
<summary>Security update for the Linux Kernel</summary>
</patchinfo>