This update for the Linux Kernel 4.4.74-92_38 fixes several issues.
The following security issues were fixed :

  - CVE-2018-3646: Local attackers in virtualized guest     systems could use speculative code patterns on     hyperthreaded processors to read data present in the L1     Datacache used by other hyperthreads on the same CPU     core, potentially leaking sensitive data, even from     other virtual machines or the host system (bsc#1099306).

  - CVE-2017-18344: The timer_create syscall implementation     in kernel/time/posix-timers.c didn't properly validate     the sigevent->sigev_notify field, which lead to     out-of-bounds access in the show_timer function (called     when /proc/$PID/timers is read). This allowed userspace     applications to read arbitrary kernel memory (on a     kernel built with CONFIG_POSIX_TIMERS and     CONFIG_CHECKPOINT_RESTORE) (bsc#1103203). before 4.14.8

  - CVE-2017-11600: net/xfrm/xfrm_policy.c did not ensure     that the dir value of xfrm_userpolicy_id is     XFRM_POLICY_MAX or less, which allowed local users to     cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds access) or     possibly have unspecified other impact via an     XFRM_MSG_MIGRATE xfrm Netlink message (bsc#1096564)

  - CVE-2018-10853: A flaw was found in kvm. In which     certain instructions such as sgdt/sidt call     segmented_write_std didn't propagate access correctly.
    As such, during userspace induced exception, the guest     can incorrectly assume that the exception happened in     the kernel and panic. (bsc#1097108).

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

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