SUSE: 2015:1611-1 Important: Kernel Enhancements for 11 SP3
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September 23, 2015
An update that solves 14 vulnerabilities and has 45 fixes An update that solves 14 vulnerabilities and has 45 fixes An update that solves 14 vulnerabilities and has 45 fixes is now...
Summary
The SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 SP3 kernel was updated to receive various security and bugfixes. Following security bugs were fixed: - CVE-2015-5707: An integer overflow in the SCSI generic driver could be potentially used by local attackers to crash the kernel or execute code (bsc#940338). - CVE-2015-5364: A remote denial of service (hang) via UDP flood with incorrect package checksums was fixed. (bsc#936831). - CVE-2015-5366: A remote denial of service (unexpected error returns) via UDP flood with incorrect package checksums was fixed. (bsc#936831). - CVE-2015-1420: A race condition in the handle_to_path function in fs/fhandle.c in the Linux kernel allowed local users to bypass intended size restrictions and trigger read operations on additional memory
Topics Covered
References
#851068 #867362 #873385 #883380 #886785 #894936
#915517 #917830 #919463 #920110 #920250 #920733
#921430 #923245 #924701 #925705 #925881 #925903
#926240 #926953 #927355 #927786 #929142 #929143
#930092 #930761 #930934 #931538 #932348 #932458
#933429 #933896 #933904 #933907 #933936 #934742
#934944 #935053 #935572 #935705 #935866 #935906
#936077 #936423 #936637 #936831 #936875 #936925
#937032 #937402 #937444 #937503 #937641 #937855
#939910 #939994 #940338 #940398 #942350
Cross- CVE-2014-9728 CVE-2014-9729 CVE-2014-9730
CVE-2014-9731 CVE-2015-0777 CVE-2015-1420
CVE-2015-1805 CVE-2015-2150 CVE-2015-2830
CVE-2015-4167 CVE-2015-4700 CVE-2015-5364
CVE-2015-5366 CVE-2015-5707
Affected Products:
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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2015:1611-1
Rating: important
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