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openSUSE Leap 42.1: 2016:3058-1 Important Kernel Security Update

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Calendar Grey December 8, 2016
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
Essential openSUSE security patch resolves various kernel vulnerabilities, improving overall system reliability and safeguarding user data.
An update that solves 16 vulnerabilities and has 12 fixes An update that solves 16 vulnerabilities and has 12 fixes An update that solves 16 vulnerabilities and has 12 fixes is now...

Description

The openSUSE Leap 42.1 kernel was updated to 4.1.36 to receive various

security and bugfixes.

The following security bugs were fixed:

- CVE-2016-8655: A race condition in the af_packet packet_set_ring

function could be used by local attackers to crash the kernel or gain

privileges (bsc#1012754).

- CVE-2016-9794: A use-after-free in ALSA pcm could lead to crashes or

allowed local users to potentially gain privileges (bsc#1013533).

- CVE-2015-8962: Double free vulnerability in the sg_common_write function

in drivers/scsi/sg.c in the Linux kernel allowed local users to gain

privileges or cause a denial of service (memory corruption and system

crash) by detaching a device during an SG_IO ioctl call (bnc#1010501).

- CVE-2016-9178: The __get_user_asm_ex macro in

arch/x86/include/asm/uaccess.h in the Linux kernel did not initialize a

certain integer variable, which allowed local users to obtain sensitive

information from...

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Topics Covered

security advisory critical bug fix local exploit kernel system stability 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 Leap 42.1:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2016-1428=1

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

Package List

- openSUSE Leap 42.1 (i686 x86_64):

kernel-debug-4.1.36-38.1

kernel-debug-base-4.1.36-38.1

kernel-debug-base-debuginfo-4.1.36-38.1

kernel-debug-debuginfo-4.1.36-38.1

kernel-debug-debugsource-4.1.36-38.1

kernel-debug-devel-4.1.36-38.1

kernel-debug-devel-debuginfo-4.1.36-38.1

kernel-ec2-4.1.36-38.1

kernel-ec2-base-4.1.36-38.1

kernel-ec2-base-debuginfo-4.1.36-38.1

kernel-ec2-debuginfo-4.1.36-38.1

kernel-ec2-debugsource-4.1.36-38.1

kernel-ec2-devel-4.1.36-38.1

kernel-pv-4.1.36-38.1

kernel-pv-base-4.1.36-38.1

kernel-pv-base-debuginfo-4.1.36-38.1

kernel-pv-debuginfo-4.1.36-38.1

kernel-pv-debugsource-4.1.36-38.1

kernel-pv-devel-4.1.36-38.1

kernel-vanilla-4.1.36-38.1

kernel-vanilla-debuginfo-4.1.36-38.1

kernel-vanilla-debugsource-4.1.36-38.1

kernel-vanilla-devel-4.1.36-38.1

kernel-xen-4.1.36-38.1

kernel-xen-base-4.1.36-38.1

kernel-xen-base-debuginfo-4.1.36-38.1

kernel-xen-debuginfo-4.1.36-38.1

kernel-xen-debugsource-4.1.36-38.1

kernel-xen-devel-4.1.36-38.1

- openSUSE Leap 42.1 (i586 x86_64):

hdjmod-debugsource-1.28-28.2

hdjm...

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References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-8956.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-8962.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-8963.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-8964.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-7042.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-7097.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-7913.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-8630.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-8633.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-8646.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-8655.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-9083.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-9084.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-9178.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-9555.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-9794.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1001171

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1001486

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1003925

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1004517

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1006580

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2016:3058-1
Rating: important
Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 42.1

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory critical bug fix local exploit kernel system stability openSUSE

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