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SUSE: 2014:0536-1 Important: 42 Kernel Fixes And Security Issues

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Calendar Grey April 16, 2014
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This Fedora upgrade resolves 37 vulnerabilities in the OS core, improving overall system integrity with essential patches.
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Summary

The SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 Service Pack 4 LTSS kernel has been updated to fix various security issues and several bugs. The following security issues have been addressed: * CVE-2011-2492: The bluetooth subsystem in the Linux kernel before 3.0-rc4 does not properly initialize certain data structures, which allows local users to obtain potentially sensitive information from kernel memory via a crafted getsockopt system call, related to (1) the l2cap_sock_getsockopt_old function in net/bluetooth/l2cap_sock.c and (2) the rfcomm_sock_getsockopt_old function in net/bluetooth/rfcomm/sock.c. (bnc#702014) * CVE-2011-2494: kernel/taskstats.c in the Linux kernel before 3.1 allows local users to obtain sensitive I/O statistics by sending taskstats commands to a netlink

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Cross- CVE-2011-2492 CVE-2011-2494 CVE-2012-6537

CVE-2012-6539 CVE-2012-6540 CVE-2012-6541

CVE-2012-6542 CVE-2012-6544 CVE-2012-6545

CVE-2012-6546 CVE-2012-6547 CVE-2012-6549

CVE-2013-0343 CVE-2013-0914 CVE-2013-1827

CVE-2013-2141 CVE-2013-2164 CVE-2013-2206

CVE-2013-2232 CVE-2013-2234 CVE-2013-2237

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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2014:0536-1
Rating: important

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