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openSUSE Leap 42.2 Security Advisory: DoS Kernel Update - 2017:2739-1

opensuse
Calendar Grey October 17, 2017
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
Important security patch for openSUSE kernel resolves numerous vulnerabilities and corrects various errors. Find further information here.
An update that solves four vulnerabilities and has 15 fixes An update that solves four vulnerabilities and has 15 fixes An update that solves four vulnerabilities and has 15 fixes ...

Description

The openSUSE Leap 42.2 Kernel was updated to 4.4.90 to receive various

security and bugfixes.

The following security bugs were fixed:

- CVE-2017-1000252: The KVM subsystem in the Linux kernel allowed guest OS

users to cause a denial of service (assertion failure, and hypervisor

hang or crash) via an out-of bounds guest_irq value, related to

arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c and virt/kvm/eventfd.c (bnc#1058038).

- CVE-2017-14489: The iscsi_if_rx function in

drivers/scsi/scsi_transport_iscsi.c in the Linux kernel allowed local

users to cause a denial of service (panic) by leveraging incorrect

length validation (bnc#1059051).

- CVE-2017-12153: A security flaw was discovered in the

nl80211_set_rekey_data() function in net/wireless/nl80211.c in the Linux

kernel This function did not check whether the required attributes are

present in a Netlink request. This request can be issued by a user with

the CAP_NET_ADMIN capability and may...

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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 Leap 42.2:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2017-1159=1

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

Package List

- openSUSE Leap 42.2 (x86_64):

kernel-debug-4.4.90-18.32.1

kernel-debug-base-4.4.90-18.32.1

kernel-debug-base-debuginfo-4.4.90-18.32.1

kernel-debug-debuginfo-4.4.90-18.32.1

kernel-debug-debugsource-4.4.90-18.32.1

kernel-debug-devel-4.4.90-18.32.1

kernel-debug-devel-debuginfo-4.4.90-18.32.1

kernel-default-4.4.90-18.32.1

kernel-default-base-4.4.90-18.32.1

kernel-default-base-debuginfo-4.4.90-18.32.1

kernel-default-debuginfo-4.4.90-18.32.1

kernel-default-debugsource-4.4.90-18.32.1

kernel-default-devel-4.4.90-18.32.1

kernel-obs-build-4.4.90-18.32.1

kernel-obs-build-debugsource-4.4.90-18.32.1

kernel-obs-qa-4.4.90-18.32.1

kernel-syms-4.4.90-18.32.1

kernel-vanilla-4.4.90-18.32.1

kernel-vanilla-base-4.4.90-18.32.1

kernel-vanilla-base-debuginfo-4.4.90-18.32.1

kernel-vanilla-debuginfo-4.4.90-18.32.1

kernel-vanilla-debugsource-4.4.90-18.32.1

kernel-vanilla-devel-4.4.90-18.32.1

- openSUSE Leap 42.2 (noarch):

kernel-devel-4.4.90-18.32.1

kernel-docs-4.4.90-18.32.2

kernel-docs-html-4.4.90-18.32.2

kernel-docs-pdf-4.4.90-18.32.2

k...

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References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-1000252.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-12153.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-12154.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-14489.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1012382

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1022967

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1052593

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1055493

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1055755

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1055896

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1058038

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1058410

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1058507

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1059051

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1059465

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1060197

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1061017

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1061046

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1061064

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1061067

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1061172

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1061831

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1061872

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2017:2739-1
Rating: important
Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 42.2

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