SUSE Linux 12: 2016:0785-1 Important: Kernel Security Patches
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March 16, 2016
An update that solves 10 vulnerabilities and has 66 fixes An update that solves 10 vulnerabilities and has 66 fixes An update that solves 10 vulnerabilities and has 66 fixes is now...
Summary
The SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 kernel was updated to 3.12.55 to receive various security and bugfixes. Features added: - A improved XEN blkfront module was added, which allows more I/O bandwidth. (FATE#320625) It is called xen-blkfront in PV, and xen-vbd-upstream in HVM mode. 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).
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#812259 #816099 #855062 #867583 #884701 #899908
#922071 #937444 #940338 #940946 #941363 #943989
#945219 #947953 #949752 #950292 #951155 #955308
#955654 #956084 #956514 #957525 #957986 #959090
#959146 #959257 #959463 #959629 #959709 #960174
#960227 #960458 #960561 #960629 #961257 #961500
#961509 #961516 #961588 #961658 #961971 #962336
#962356 #962788 #962965 #963193 #963449 #963572
#963746 #963765 #963767 #963825 #963960 #964201
#964730 #965199 #965344 #965830 #965840 #965891
#966026 #966094 #966278 #966437 #966471 #966693
#966864 #966910 #967802 #968018 #968074 #968206
#968230 #968234 #968253 #969112
Cross- CVE-2013-7446 CVE-2015-5707 CVE-2015-8709
CVE-2015-8767 CVE-2015-8785 CVE-2015-8812
CVE-2016-...
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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2016:0785-1
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