SUSE 11-SP3: 2015:2108-1 Important: Kernel Denial of Service Fix
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November 26, 2015
An update that solves 8 vulnerabilities and has 51 fixes is An update that solves 8 vulnerabilities and has 51 fixes is An update that solves 8 vulnerabilities and has 51 fixes is ...
Summary
The SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 Service Pack 3 kernel was updated to receive various security and bugfixes. Following security bugs were fixed: - CVE-2015-8104: Prevent guest to host DoS caused by infinite loop in microcode via #DB exception (bsc#954404). - CVE-2015-5307: Prevent guest to host DoS caused by infinite loop in microcode via #AC exception (bsc#953527). - CVE-2015-7990: RDS: Verify the underlying transport exists before creating a connection, preventing possible DoS (bsc#952384). - CVE-2015-5157: arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S in the Linux kernel on the x86_64 platform mishandled IRET faults in processing NMIs that occurred during userspace execution, which might have allowed local users to gain privileges by triggering an NMI (bsc#938706).
References
#777565 #814440 #900610 #904348 #904965 #920016
#923002 #926007 #926709 #926774 #930145 #930788
#932350 #932805 #933721 #935053 #935757 #936118
#938706 #939826 #939926 #939955 #940017 #940925
#941202 #942204 #942305 #942367 #942605 #942688
#942938 #943786 #944296 #944831 #944837 #944989
#944993 #945691 #945825 #945827 #946078 #946309
#947957 #948330 #948347 #948521 #949100 #949298
#949502 #949706 #949744 #949981 #951440 #952084
#952384 #952579 #953527 #953980 #954404
Cross- CVE-2015-0272 CVE-2015-5157 CVE-2015-5307
CVE-2015-6252 CVE-2015-6937 CVE-2015-7872
CVE-2015-7990 CVE-2015-8104
Affected Products:
SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 11-SP3
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for VMWare 11-SP3
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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2015:2108-1
Rating: important
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