SUSE: 2015:2090-3 Critical: Kernel Updates for Live Systems
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November 24, 2015
An update that solves two vulnerabilities and has two fixes An update that solves two vulnerabilities and has two fixes An update that solves two vulnerabilities and has two fixes ...
Summary
This kernel live patch for Linux Kernel 3.12.43-52.6.1 fixes two security issues: - CVE-2015-7613: A race condition in the IPC object implementation in the Linux kernel allowed local users to gain privileges by triggering an ipc_addid call that leads to uid and gid comparisons against uninitialized data, related to msg.c, shm.c, and util.c. (bsc#948701 bsc#948536) - CVE-2015-5707: Integer overflow in the sg_start_req function in drivers/scsi/sg.c in the Linux kernel allowed local users to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact via a large iov_count value in a write request. (bsc#940342 bsc#940338) 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 Live Patching 12:
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References
#940338 #940342 #948536 #948701
Cross- CVE-2015-5707 CVE-2015-7613
Affected Products:
SUSE Linux Enterprise Live Patching 12
https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-5707.html
https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-7613.html
https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=940338
https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=940342
https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=948536
https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=948701
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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2015:2084-1
Rating: important
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