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openSUSE Leap 42.1: 2017:1215-1 Important Kernel Denial Of Service Fix

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Calendar Grey May 8, 2017
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
Critical patch release for openSUSE Leap 42.1 aimed at resolving vital kernel vulnerabilities and delivering important software enhancements.
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Description

The openSUSE Leap 42.1 kernel was updated to receive various security and

bugfixes.

The following security bugs were fixed:

- CVE-2017-7618: crypto/ahash.c in the Linux kernel allowed attackers to

cause a denial of service (API operation calling its own callback, and

infinite recursion) by triggering EBUSY on a full queue (bnc#1033340).

- CVE-2016-10318: A missing authorization check in the

fscrypt_process_policy function in fs/crypto/policy.c in the ext4 and

f2fs filesystem encryption support in the Linux kernel allowed a user to

assign an encryption policy to a directory owned by a different user,

potentially creating a denial of service (bnc#1032435).

- CVE-2017-7616: Incorrect error handling in the set_mempolicy and mbind

compat syscalls in mm/mempolicy.c in the Linux kernel allowed local

users to obtain sensitive information from uninitialized stack data by

triggering failure of a certain bitmap operation...

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Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service security update kernel fix openSUSE Leap

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-2017-562=1

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

Package List

- openSUSE Leap 42.1 (i686 x86_64):

kernel-debug-4.1.39-56.1

kernel-debug-base-4.1.39-56.1

kernel-debug-base-debuginfo-4.1.39-56.1

kernel-debug-debuginfo-4.1.39-56.1

kernel-debug-debugsource-4.1.39-56.1

kernel-debug-devel-4.1.39-56.1

kernel-debug-devel-debuginfo-4.1.39-56.1

kernel-ec2-4.1.39-56.1

kernel-ec2-base-4.1.39-56.1

kernel-ec2-base-debuginfo-4.1.39-56.1

kernel-ec2-debuginfo-4.1.39-56.1

kernel-ec2-debugsource-4.1.39-56.1

kernel-ec2-devel-4.1.39-56.1

kernel-pv-4.1.39-56.1

kernel-pv-base-4.1.39-56.1

kernel-pv-base-debuginfo-4.1.39-56.1

kernel-pv-debuginfo-4.1.39-56.1

kernel-pv-debugsource-4.1.39-56.1

kernel-pv-devel-4.1.39-56.1

kernel-vanilla-4.1.39-56.1

kernel-vanilla-debuginfo-4.1.39-56.1

kernel-vanilla-debugsource-4.1.39-56.1

kernel-vanilla-devel-4.1.39-56.1

kernel-xen-4.1.39-56.1

kernel-xen-base-4.1.39-56.1

kernel-xen-base-debuginfo-4.1.39-56.1

kernel-xen-debuginfo-4.1.39-56.1

kernel-xen-debugsource-4.1.39-56.1

kernel-xen-devel-4.1.39-56.1

- openSUSE Leap 42.1 (i586 x86_64):

kernel-default-4.1.39-56.1

kernel...

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References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-10318.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-2671.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-7187.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-7261.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-7294.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-7308.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-7616.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-7618.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1012829

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1012876

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1028415

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1030213

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1031003

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1031052

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1031440

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1031579

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1032435

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1033336

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1033340

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1033518

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1034670

https://bugzilla.suse.com/930399

https://bugzilla.suse.com/970083

Severity
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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2017:1215-1
Rating: important
Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 42.1

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service security update kernel fix openSUSE Leap

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