SUSE: 2016:1041-1 Critical: Kernel Vulnerabilities Addressed and Resolved
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April 14, 2016
An update that fixes four vulnerabilities is now available
Summary
This update for the Linux Kernel 3.12.48-52.27.1 fixes the following issues: - CVE-2016-2384: A malicious USB device could cause a kernel crash in the alsa usb-audio driver. (bsc#967773) - CVE-2015-8812: A flaw was found in the CXGB3 kernel driver when the network was considered congested. The kernel would incorrectly misinterpret the congestion as an error condition and incorrectly free/clean up the skb. When the device would then send the skb's queued, these structures would be referenced and may panic the system or allow an attacker to escalate privileges in a use-after-free scenario. (bsc#966683) - CVE-2016-0774: A pipe buffer state corruption after unsuccessful atomic read from pipe was fixed (bsc#964732). - CVE-2015-8709: kernel/ptrace.c in the Linux kernel mishandled uid and
Topics Covered
References
#960563 #964732 #966683 #967773
Cross- CVE-2015-8709 CVE-2015-8812 CVE-2016-0774
CVE-2016-2384
Affected Products:
SUSE Linux Enterprise Live Patching 12
https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-8709.html
https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-8812.html
https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-0774.html
https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-2384.html
https://bugzilla.suse.com/960563
https://bugzilla.suse.com/964732
https://bugzilla.suse.com/966683
https://bugzilla.suse.com/967773
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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2016:1041-1
Rating: important
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