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SUSE: 2016:1937-1 Important: Linux Kernel Denial of Service Issues Fixed

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Calendar Grey August 2, 2016
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SUSE has released a crucial update for the Linux Kernel, tackling 24 vulnerabilities along with 76 corrective measures that carry significant security ramifications.
An update that solves 24 vulnerabilities and has 76 fixes An update that solves 24 vulnerabilities and has 76 fixes An update that solves 24 vulnerabilities and has 76 fixes is now...

Summary

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 SP1 RT kernel was updated to 3.12.61 to receive various security and bugfixes. Main feature additions: - Improved support for Clustered File System (CephFS, fate#318586). The following security bugs were fixed: - CVE-2014-9717: fs/namespace.c in the Linux kernel processes MNT_DETACH umount2 system calls without verifying that the MNT_LOCKED flag is unset, which allowed local users to bypass intended access restrictions and navigate to filesystem locations beneath a mount by calling umount2 within a user namespace (bnc#928547). - CVE-2014-9904: The snd_compress_check_input function in sound/core/compress_offload.c in the ALSA subsystem in the Linux kernel did not properly check for an integer overflow, which allowed local

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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2016:1937-1
Rating: important

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