SUSE: 2016:0354-1 Important: Kernel Denial of Service Update
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February 5, 2016
An update that solves 9 vulnerabilities and has 54 fixes is An update that solves 9 vulnerabilities and has 54 fixes is An update that solves 9 vulnerabilities and has 54 fixes is ...
Summary
The SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 SP3 Realtime kernel was updated to receive various security and bugfixes. Following security bugs were fixed: - CVE-2015-8104: The KVM subsystem in the Linux kernel allowed guest OS users to cause a denial of service (host OS panic or hang) by triggering many #DB (aka Debug) exceptions, related to svm.c (bnc#954404). - CVE-2015-5307: The KVM subsystem in the Linux kernel allowed guest OS users to cause a denial of service (host OS panic or hang) by triggering many #AC (aka Alignment Check) exceptions, related to svm.c and vmx.c (bnc#953527). - CVE-2015-7990: RDS: Verify the underlying transport exists before creating a connection, preventing possible DoS (bsc#952384, CVE-2015-7990). - CVE-2015-5157: arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S in the Linux kernel on the
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References
#777565 #814440 #900610 #904348 #904965 #920016
#923002 #926007 #926709 #926774 #930145 #930788
#932350 #932805 #933721 #935053 #935757 #936118
#937969 #937970 #938706 #939207 #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 #955354
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 CVE-2015-8215
Affected Products:
SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time Extension 11-SP3
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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2016:0354-1
Rating: important
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