File _patchinfo of Package patchinfo.11755
<patchinfo incident="11755"> <issue id="1138264" tracker="bnc">VUL-0: CVE-2019-12817: kernel live patch: powerpc: access to other processes memory</issue> <issue id="2019-12817" tracker="cve" /> <category>security</category> <rating>important</rating> <packager>nstange</packager> <description>This update for the Linux Kernel 4.12.14-197_4 fixes one issue. The following security issue was fixed: - CVE-2019-12817: arch/powerpc/mm/mmu_context_book3s64.c in the Linux kernel for powerpc had a bug where unrelated processes may be able to read/write to one another's virtual memory under certain conditions via an mmap above 512 TB. Only a subset of powerpc systems are affected (bsc#1138264). </description> <summary>Security update for the Linux Kernel (Live Patch 1 for SLE 15 SP1)</summary> </patchinfo>