SUSE 12-SP1: 2016:0585-1 Important Update: 17 Kernel Issues Fixed
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February 25, 2016
An update that solves 17 vulnerabilities and has 54 fixes An update that solves 17 vulnerabilities and has 54 fixes An update that solves 17 vulnerabilities and has 54 fixes is now...
Summary
The SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 SP1 kernel was updated to 3.12.53 to receive various security and bugfixes. The following security bugs were fixed: - CVE-2013-7446: Use-after-free vulnerability in net/unix/af_unix.c in the Linux kernel allowed local users to bypass intended AF_UNIX socket permissions or cause a denial of service (panic) via crafted epoll_ctl calls (bnc#955654). - 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 (bnc#940338). - CVE-2015-7550: The keyctl_read_key function in security/keys/keyctl.c in the Linux kernel did not properly use a semaphore, which allowed local
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#812259 #855062 #867583 #899908 #902606 #924919
#935087 #937261 #937444 #938577 #940338 #940946
#941363 #942476 #943989 #944749 #945649 #947953
#949440 #949936 #950292 #951199 #951392 #951615
#952579 #952976 #954992 #955118 #955354 #955654
#956514 #956708 #957525 #957988 #957990 #958463
#958886 #958951 #959090 #959146 #959190 #959257
#959364 #959399 #959436 #959463 #959629 #960221
#960227 #960281 #960300 #961202 #961257 #961500
#961509 #961516 #961588 #961971 #962336 #962356
#962788 #962965 #963449 #963572 #963765 #963767
#963825 #964230 #964821 #965344 #965840
Cross- CVE-2013-7446 CVE-2015-0272 CVE-2015-5707
CVE-2015-7550 CVE-2015-7799 CVE-2015-8215
CVE-2015-8539 CVE-2015-8543 CVE-2015-8550
CVE-2015...
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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2016:0585-1
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