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SUSE Linux 11-SP3: 2015:1224-1 Important: Kernel Security Update

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Calendar Grey July 10, 2015
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SUSE Security Update releases essential corrections in Linux Kernel, tackling significant vulnerabilities for system resilience and protection.
An update that contains security fixes can now be installed

Summary

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 SP3 Teradata kernel was updated to fix the following bugs and security issues. The following security issues have been fixed: - Update patches.fixes/udp-fix-behavior-of-wrong-checksums.patch (bsc#936831, CVE-2015-5364, CVE-2015-5366). - Btrfs: make xattr replace operations atomic (bnc#923908, CVE-2014-9710). - udp: fix behavior of wrong checksums (bsc#936831, CVE-2015-5364, CVE-2015-5366). - vfs: read file_handle only once in handle_to_path (bsc#915517, CVE-2015-1420). - x86: bpf_jit: fix compilation of large bpf programs (bnc#935705,CVE-2015-4700). - udf: Check length of extended attributes and allocation (bsc#936831, CVE-2015-5364, CVE-2015-5366). - Update patches.fixes/udf-Check-component-length-before-reading-it.patch

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Topics Covered

security advisory buffer overflow kernel update security fix important SUSE Linux system patching

References

#915517 #919007 #922583 #923908 #927355 #929525

#929647 #930786 #933429 #933896 #933904 #933907

#935705 #936831

Affected Products:

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11-SP3-TERADATA

https://bugzilla.suse.com/915517

https://bugzilla.suse.com/919007

https://bugzilla.suse.com/922583

https://bugzilla.suse.com/923908

https://bugzilla.suse.com/927355

https://bugzilla.suse.com/929525

https://bugzilla.suse.com/929647

https://bugzilla.suse.com/930786

https://bugzilla.suse.com/933429

https://bugzilla.suse.com/933896

https://bugzilla.suse.com/933904

https://bugzilla.suse.com/933907

https://bugzilla.suse.com/935705

https://bugzilla.suse.com/936831

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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2015:1224-1
Rating: important

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Topics Covered

security advisory buffer overflow kernel update security fix important SUSE Linux system patching

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