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SUSE: 2015:1710-3 Critical: Remote Exploitation, Data Breach, Security Risk

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Calendar Grey December 11, 2014
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Alert: New update for shim addresses vital security vulnerabilities in SUSE platforms. Enhance your system's defenses immediately!
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Summary

shim has been updated to fix three security issues: * OOB read access when parsing DHCPv6 packets (remote DoS) (CVE-2014-3675). * Heap overflow when parsing IPv6 addresses provided by tftp:// DHCPv6 boot option (RCE) (CVE-2014-3676). * Memory corruption when processing user provided MOK lists (CVE-2014-3677). Security Issues: * CVE-2014-3675 * CVE-2014-3676 * CVE-2014-3677 Patch Instructions: To install this SUSE Security Update use YaST online_update. Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product: - SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 11 SP3:

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Topics Covered

security advisory update DoS memory corruption remote execution SUSE shim

References

#813448 #863205 #866690 #875385 #889332 #889765

Cross- CVE-2014-3675 CVE-2014-3676 CVE-2014-3677

Affected Products:

SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 11 SP3

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3 for VMware

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3

SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 SP3

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-3675.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-3676.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-3677.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=813448

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=863205

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=866690

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=875385

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=889332

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=889765

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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2014:1619-1
Rating: important

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Topics Covered

security advisory update DoS memory corruption remote execution SUSE shim

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