SUSE: 2013:1473-1 Important: Multiple Kernel Security Issues
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September 21, 2013
An update that solves 13 vulnerabilities and has 74 fixes An update that solves 13 vulnerabilities and has 74 fixes An update that solves 13 vulnerabilities and has 74 fixes is now...
Summary
The SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 Service Pack 3 kernel has been updated to version 3.0.93 and to fix various bugs and security issues. The following features have been added: * NFS: Now supports a "nosharetransport" option (bnc#807502, bnc#828192, FATE#315593). * ALSA: virtuoso: Xonar DSX support was added (FATE#316016). The following security issues have been fixed: * CVE-2013-2148: The fill_event_metadata function in fs/notify/fanotify/fanotify_user.c in the Linux kernel did not initialize a certain structure member, which allowed local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel memory via a read operation on the fanotify descriptor. * CVE-2013-2237: The key_notify_policy_flush function in net/key/af_key.c in the Linux kernel did not initialize
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#745640 #760407 #765523 #773006 #773255 #783475
#789010 #797909 #800875 #801341 #805371 #805740
#805804 #806396 #807471 #807502 #808940 #809122
#809463 #812274 #813733 #814336 #815256 #815320
#816043 #818047 #819363 #820172 #820434 #822052
#822164 #822225 #822575 #822579 #822878 #823517
#824256 #824295 #824568 #824915 #825048 #825142
#825227 #825887 #826350 #826960 #827271 #827372
#827376 #827378 #827749 #827750 #827930 #828087
#828119 #828192 #828265 #828574 #828714 #828886
#828914 #829001 #829082 #829357 #829539 #829622
#830346 #830478 #830766 #830822 #830901 #831055
#831058 #831410 #831422 #831424 #831438 #831623
#831949 #832318 #833073 #833097 #833148 #834116
#834647 #834742 #835175
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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2013:1473-1
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