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openSUSE 12.3: 2023:0607-1 Critical Kernel Security Patch

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Calendar Grey February 6, 2014
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
A significant firmware enhancement for Fedora addresses 12 vulnerabilities and strengthens overall system integrity through crucial patches.
An update that solves 16 vulnerabilities and has 12 fixes is now available.

Description

The Linux kernel was updated to fix various bugs and

security issues:

- mm/page-writeback.c: do not count anon pages as dirtyable

memory (reclaim stalls).

- mm/page-writeback.c: fix dirty_balance_reserve

subtraction from dirtyable memory (reclaim stalls).

- compat_sys_recvmmsg X32 fix (bnc#860993 CVE-2014-0038).

- hwmon: (coretemp) Fix truncated name of alarm attributes

- net: fib: fib6_add: fix potential NULL pointer

dereference (bnc#854173 CVE-2013-6431).

- keys: fix race with concurrent install_user_keyrings()

(bnc#808358)(CVE-2013-1792).

- KVM: x86: Convert vapic synchronization to _cached

functions (CVE-2013-6368) (bnc#853052 CVE-2013-6368).

- wireless: radiotap: fix parsing buffer overrun

(bnc#854634 CVE-2013-7027).

- KVM: x86: fix guest-initiated crash with x2apic

(CVE-2013-6376) (bnc#853053 CVE-2013-6376).

- KVM: x86: Fix potential divide by 0 in lapic

(CVE-2013-6367) (bnc#853051 CVE-2013-6367).

- KVM:...

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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 12.3:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2014-113

To bring your system up-to-date, use "zypper patch".

Package List

- openSUSE 12.3 (i586 x86_64):

kernel-default-3.7.10-1.28.1

kernel-default-base-3.7.10-1.28.1

kernel-default-base-debuginfo-3.7.10-1.28.1

kernel-default-debuginfo-3.7.10-1.28.1

kernel-default-debugsource-3.7.10-1.28.1

kernel-default-devel-3.7.10-1.28.1

kernel-default-devel-debuginfo-3.7.10-1.28.1

kernel-syms-3.7.10-1.28.1

- openSUSE 12.3 (i686 x86_64):

kernel-debug-3.7.10-1.28.1

kernel-debug-base-3.7.10-1.28.1

kernel-debug-base-debuginfo-3.7.10-1.28.1

kernel-debug-debuginfo-3.7.10-1.28.1

kernel-debug-debugsource-3.7.10-1.28.1

kernel-debug-devel-3.7.10-1.28.1

kernel-debug-devel-debuginfo-3.7.10-1.28.1

kernel-desktop-3.7.10-1.28.1

kernel-desktop-base-3.7.10-1.28.1

kernel-desktop-base-debuginfo-3.7.10-1.28.1

kernel-desktop-debuginfo-3.7.10-1.28.1

kernel-desktop-debugsource-3.7.10-1.28.1

kernel-desktop-devel-3.7.10-1.28.1

kernel-desktop-devel-debuginfo-3.7.10-1.28.1

kernel-ec2-3.7.10-1.28.1

kernel-ec2-base-3.7.10-1.28.1

kernel-ec2-base-debuginfo-3.7.10-1.28.1

kernel-ec2-debuginfo-3.7.10-1.28.1

kernel-ec2-debugsource-...

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References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2013-0343.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2013-1792.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2013-4348.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2013-4511.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2013-4513.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2013-4514.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2013-4515.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2013-4587.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2013-6367.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2013-6368.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2013-6376.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2013-6378.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2013-6380.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2013-6431.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2013-7027.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-0038.html

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2014:0204-1
Rating: important
Affected Products: openSUSE 12.3 le.

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