openSUSE 12.2 Critical Kernel Patches Released on December 2, 2012
opensuse
October 12, 2012
An update that solves two vulnerabilities and has 12 fixes is now available.
Description
This kernel update to 3.4.11 fixes various bugs and
security issues.
The changes up to 3.4.11 contain both security and bugfixes
and are not explicitly listed here.
Following security issues were fixed: CVE-2012-3520: Force
passing credentials, otherwise local services could be
fooled to assume requests coming from root.
CVE-2012-3412: Do not allow extreme TSO parameters in the
sfc driver and tcp stack.
Following non-security bugs were fixed:
- nbd: clear waiting_queue on shutdown (bnc#778630).
- NFS: avoid warning from nfs_drop_nlink (bnc#780624).
- net: do not disable sg for packets requiring no checksum
(bnc#774859).
- sfc: Fix maximum number of TSO segments and minimum TX
queue size (bnc#774523 CVE-2012-3412).
- net: Allow driver to limit number of GSO segments per skb
(bnc#774523 CVE-2012-3412).
- drm/nouveau: fix booting with plymouth + dumb support
(bnc#771392).
- memcg: warn on deeper hierarchies with...
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Patch
Patch Instructions:
To install this openSUSE Security Update use YaST online_update.
Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:
- openSUSE 12.2:
zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2012-700
To bring your system up-to-date, use "zypper patch".
Package List
- openSUSE 12.2 (i586 x86_64):
kernel-default-3.4.11-2.16.1
kernel-default-base-3.4.11-2.16.1
kernel-default-base-debuginfo-3.4.11-2.16.1
kernel-default-debuginfo-3.4.11-2.16.1
kernel-default-debugsource-3.4.11-2.16.1
kernel-default-devel-3.4.11-2.16.1
kernel-default-devel-debuginfo-3.4.11-2.16.1
kernel-syms-3.4.11-2.16.1
- openSUSE 12.2 (i686 x86_64):
kernel-debug-3.4.11-2.16.1
kernel-debug-base-3.4.11-2.16.1
kernel-debug-base-debuginfo-3.4.11-2.16.1
kernel-debug-debuginfo-3.4.11-2.16.1
kernel-debug-debugsource-3.4.11-2.16.1
kernel-debug-devel-3.4.11-2.16.1
kernel-debug-devel-debuginfo-3.4.11-2.16.1
kernel-desktop-3.4.11-2.16.1
kernel-desktop-base-3.4.11-2.16.1
kernel-desktop-base-debuginfo-3.4.11-2.16.1
kernel-desktop-debuginfo-3.4.11-2.16.1
kernel-desktop-debugsource-3.4.11-2.16.1
kernel-desktop-devel-3.4.11-2.16.1
kernel-desktop-devel-debuginfo-3.4.11-2.16.1
kernel-ec2-3.4.11-2.16.1
kernel-ec2-base-3.4.11-2.16.1
kernel-ec2-base-debuginfo-3.4.11-2.16.1
kernel-ec2-debuginfo-3.4.11-2.16.1
kernel-ec2-debugsource-...
Read the Full AdvisoryReferences
https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2012-3412.html
https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2012-3520.html
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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2012:1330-1
Rating: important
Affected Products:
openSUSE 12.2
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