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openSUSE 13.2: 2014:1678-1 Important: Local Escalation and DoS Threats

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Calendar Grey December 21, 2014
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The latest openSUSE 13.2 kernel patches tackle significant security vulnerabilities, which encompass local privilege elevation and denial-of-service threats.
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Description

The openSUSE 13.2 kernel was updated to version 3.16.7.

These security issues were 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. (bnc#910251)

- 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.

(bnc#907818)

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

information from the kernel stack to userspace. (bnc#909077)

- CVE-2014-3673: The SCTP implementation in the Linux kernel through

3.17.2 allowed remote attackers to cause a denial of service (system

crash) via a...

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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 13.2:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2014-794

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

Package List

- openSUSE 13.2 (i586 x86_64):

kernel-default-3.16.7-7.1

kernel-default-base-3.16.7-7.1

kernel-default-base-debuginfo-3.16.7-7.1

kernel-default-debuginfo-3.16.7-7.1

kernel-default-debugsource-3.16.7-7.1

kernel-default-devel-3.16.7-7.1

kernel-ec2-3.16.7-7.1

kernel-ec2-base-3.16.7-7.1

kernel-ec2-devel-3.16.7-7.1

kernel-obs-build-3.16.7-7.3

kernel-obs-build-debugsource-3.16.7-7.3

kernel-obs-qa-3.16.7-7.2

kernel-obs-qa-xen-3.16.7-7.2

kernel-syms-3.16.7-7.1

- openSUSE 13.2 (i686 x86_64):

kernel-debug-3.16.7-7.1

kernel-debug-base-3.16.7-7.1

kernel-debug-base-debuginfo-3.16.7-7.1

kernel-debug-debuginfo-3.16.7-7.1

kernel-debug-debugsource-3.16.7-7.1

kernel-debug-devel-3.16.7-7.1

kernel-debug-devel-debuginfo-3.16.7-7.1

kernel-desktop-3.16.7-7.1

kernel-desktop-base-3.16.7-7.1

kernel-desktop-base-debuginfo-3.16.7-7.1

kernel-desktop-debuginfo-3.16.7-7.1

kernel-desktop-debugsource-3.16.7-7.1

kernel-desktop-devel-3.16.7-7.1

kernel-ec2-base-debuginfo-3.16.7-7.1

kernel-ec2-debuginfo-3.16.7-7.1

kernel-ec2-debugsource-3.16.7-7.1

kerne...

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References

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-2014-7826.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-2014-9090.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-9322.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=665315

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=856659

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=897112

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=897736

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=900786

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=902346

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=902349

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=902351

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=902632

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=902633

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=902728

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=903748

https://...

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2014:1678-1
Rating: important
Affected Products: openSUSE 13.2

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