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openSUSE 13.1: 2014:1677-1 Important: Kernel Privilege Escalation

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Calendar Grey December 21, 2014
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
A significant patch for the Linux Kernel in Fedora rectifying severe security flaws and preventing system failures.
An update that solves 31 vulnerabilities and has 12 fixes An update that solves 31 vulnerabilities and has 12 fixes An update that solves 31 vulnerabilities and has 12 fixes is now...

Description

The openSUSE 13.1 kernel was updated to fix security issues and bugs:

Security issues fixed: 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-2014-0181: The Netlink implementation in the Linux kernel through

3.14.1 did not provide a mechanism for authorizing socket operations based

on the opener of a socket, which allowed local users to bypass...

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Topics Covered

security advisory privilege escalation important kernel system crash security issues 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 13.1:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2014-793

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

Package List

- openSUSE 13.1 (i686 x86_64):

kernel-debug-3.11.10-25.1

kernel-debug-base-3.11.10-25.1

kernel-debug-base-debuginfo-3.11.10-25.1

kernel-debug-debuginfo-3.11.10-25.1

kernel-debug-debugsource-3.11.10-25.1

kernel-debug-devel-3.11.10-25.1

kernel-debug-devel-debuginfo-3.11.10-25.1

kernel-desktop-3.11.10-25.1

kernel-desktop-base-3.11.10-25.1

kernel-desktop-base-debuginfo-3.11.10-25.1

kernel-desktop-debuginfo-3.11.10-25.1

kernel-desktop-debugsource-3.11.10-25.1

kernel-desktop-devel-3.11.10-25.1

kernel-desktop-devel-debuginfo-3.11.10-25.1

kernel-ec2-3.11.10-25.1

kernel-ec2-base-3.11.10-25.1

kernel-ec2-base-debuginfo-3.11.10-25.1

kernel-ec2-debuginfo-3.11.10-25.1

kernel-ec2-debugsource-3.11.10-25.1

kernel-ec2-devel-3.11.10-25.1

kernel-ec2-devel-debuginfo-3.11.10-25.1

kernel-trace-3.11.10-25.1

kernel-trace-base-3.11.10-25.1

kernel-trace-base-debuginfo-3.11.10-25.1

kernel-trace-debuginfo-3.11.10-25.1

kernel-trace-debugsource-3.11.10-25.1

kernel-trace-devel-3.11.10-25.1

kernel-trace-devel-debuginfo-3.11.10-25.1

kernel-vanilla...

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References

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

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2013-2898.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-0181.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-0206.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-1739.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-2014-3673.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-3687.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-3688.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-2014-4611.html

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

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

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2014:1677-1
Rating: important
Affected Products: openSUSE 13.1

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory privilege escalation important kernel system crash security issues openSUSE

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