The vulnerability of the cpia2_remap_buffer function in the Linux operating system allows a hacker to gain access to read and write physical pages in the kernel, thereby enhancing their privileges.

The vulnerability of the cpia2remapbuffer function drivers/media/usb/cpia2/cpia2core.c in the Linux kernel is related to integer overflow. Exploiting this vulnerability can allow an attacker to gain access to read and write operations on physical pages in the kernel, thereby enhancing their...

SUSE-SU-2018:1366-1 Security update for the Linux Kernel

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 SP3 kernel was updated to 4.4.131 to receive various security and bugfixes. The following security bugs were fixed: - CVE-2018-3639: Information leaks using 'Memory Disambiguation' feature in modern CPUs were mitigated, aka 'Spectre Variant 4' bnc1087082. A new boot...