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>