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SUSE: 2015:0736-1 Important: Real Time Kernel Security Update

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Calendar Grey April 20, 2015
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Enhancements implemented to address vulnerabilities within the Real Time Linux Kernel, prioritizing robustness and safeguarding for all system users.
An update that solves 21 vulnerabilities and has 69 fixes An update that solves 21 vulnerabilities and has 69 fixes An update that solves 21 vulnerabilities and has 69 fixes is now...

Summary

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 SP3 Realtime kernel was updated to receive various security and bugfixes. The following security bugs have been fixed: * CVE-2015-1593: An integer overflow in the stack randomization on 64-bit systems lead to less effective stack ASLR on those systems. (bsc#917839) * CVE-2014-8160: iptables rules could be bypassed if the specific network protocol module was not loaded, allowing e.g. SCTP to bypass the firewall if the sctp protocol was not enabled. (bsc#913059) * CVE-2014-7822: A flaw was found in the way the Linux kernels splice() system call validated its parameters. On certain file systems, a local, unprivileged user could have used this flaw to write past the maximum file size, and thus crash the system. (bnc#915322) * CVE-2014-9419: The __switch_to function in

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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2015:0736-1
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