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openSUSE 12.3: SUSE: 2014:1669-1 important: Kernel Security Update

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Calendar Grey December 19, 2014
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
This release tackles essential problems within the Linux kernel, implementing vital remedies for multiple security vulnerabilities.
An update that solves 22 vulnerabilities and has 5 fixes is now available.

Description

The openSUSE 12.3 kernel was updated to fix security issues:

This will be the final kernel update for openSUSE 13.2 during its

lifetime, which ends January 4th 2015.

CVE-2014-9322: A local privilege escalation in the x86_64 32bit

compatibility signal handling was fixed, which could be used by local

attackers to crash the machine or execute code.

CVE-2014-9090: The do_double_fault function in arch/x86/kernel/traps.c in

the Linux kernel did not properly handle faults associated with the Stack

Segment (SS) segment register, which allowed local users to cause a denial

of service (panic) via a modify_ldt system call, as demonstrated by

sigreturn_32 in the linux-clock-tests test suite.

CVE-2014-8133: Insufficient validation of TLS register usage could leak

information from the kernel stack to userspace.

CVE-2014-4508: arch/x86/kernel/entry_32.S in the Linux kernel on 32-bit

x86 platforms, when syscall auditing is enabled and the sep CPU...

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Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service local privilege escalation important kernel stack overflow openSUSE

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-2014-791

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

Package List

- openSUSE 12.3 (i586 x86_64):

kernel-default-3.7.10-1.45.1

kernel-default-base-3.7.10-1.45.1

kernel-default-base-debuginfo-3.7.10-1.45.1

kernel-default-debuginfo-3.7.10-1.45.1

kernel-default-debugsource-3.7.10-1.45.1

kernel-default-devel-3.7.10-1.45.1

kernel-default-devel-debuginfo-3.7.10-1.45.1

kernel-syms-3.7.10-1.45.1

- openSUSE 12.3 (i686 x86_64):

kernel-debug-3.7.10-1.45.1

kernel-debug-base-3.7.10-1.45.1

kernel-debug-base-debuginfo-3.7.10-1.45.1

kernel-debug-debuginfo-3.7.10-1.45.1

kernel-debug-debugsource-3.7.10-1.45.1

kernel-debug-devel-3.7.10-1.45.1

kernel-debug-devel-debuginfo-3.7.10-1.45.1

kernel-desktop-3.7.10-1.45.1

kernel-desktop-base-3.7.10-1.45.1

kernel-desktop-base-debuginfo-3.7.10-1.45.1

kernel-desktop-debuginfo-3.7.10-1.45.1

kernel-desktop-debugsource-3.7.10-1.45.1

kernel-desktop-devel-3.7.10-1.45.1

kernel-desktop-devel-debuginfo-3.7.10-1.45.1

kernel-ec2-3.7.10-1.45.1

kernel-ec2-base-3.7.10-1.45.1

kernel-ec2-base-debuginfo-3.7.10-1.45.1

kernel-ec2-debuginfo-3.7.10-1.45.1

kernel-ec2-debugsource-...

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References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2013-2889.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2013-2891.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-3181.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-3182.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-3184.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-3185.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-3186.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-4171.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-4508.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-4608.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-4943.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-5077.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-5471.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-5472.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-6410.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-7826.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-7841.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-8133.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-8709.html

https://www....

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2014:1669-1
Rating: important
Affected Products: openSUSE 12.3 le.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service local privilege escalation important kernel stack overflow openSUSE

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