SUSE: 2015:0068-1 Critical: Kernel Denial of Service Update
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January 16, 2015
An update that solves 11 vulnerabilities and has 62 fixes An update that solves 11 vulnerabilities and has 62 fixes An update that solves 11 vulnerabilities and has 62 fixes is now...
Summary
The SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 kernel was updated to 3.12.31 to receive various security and bugfixes. Security issues fixed: CVE-2014-9322: A local privilege escalation in the x86_64 32bit compatibility signal handling was fixed, which could be used by local attackers to crash the machine or execute code. CVE-2014-9090: Various issues in LDT handling in 32bit compatibility mode on the x86_64 platform were fixed, where local attackers could crash the machine. CVE-2014-8133: Insufficient validation of TLS register usage could leak information from the kernel stack to userspace. CVE-2014-7826: kernel/trace/trace_syscalls.c in the Linux kernel did not properly handle private syscall numbers during use of the ftrace subsystem, which allowed local users to gain privileges or cause a denial
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#851603 #853040 #860441 #862957 #863526 #870498
#873228 #874025 #877622 #879255 #880767 #880892
#881085 #883139 #887046 #887382 #887418 #889295
#889297 #891259 #891619 #892254 #892612 #892650
#892860 #893454 #894057 #894863 #895221 #895387
#895468 #895680 #895983 #896391 #897101 #897736
#897770 #897912 #898234 #898297 #899192 #899489
#899551 #899785 #899787 #899908 #900126 #901090
#901774 #901809 #901925 #902010 #902016 #902346
#902893 #902898 #903279 #903307 #904013 #904077
#904115 #904354 #904871 #905087 #905100 #905296
#905758 #905772 #907818 #908184 #909077 #910251
#910697
Cross- CVE-2013-6405 CVE-2014-3185 CVE-2014-3610
CVE-2014-3611 CVE-2014-3647 CVE-2014-3673
CVE-2014-7826 CVE-2014-7841 CVE-2...
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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2015:0068-1
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