SUSE 11-SP2: 2016:2074-1 Critical: Kernel Multiple Issues Advisory
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August 15, 2016
An update that solves 48 vulnerabilities and has 13 fixes An update that solves 48 vulnerabilities and has 13 fixes An update that solves 48 vulnerabilities and has 13 fixes is now...
Summary
The SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 SP2 kernel was updated to receive various security and bug fixes. The following security bugs were fixed: - CVE-2016-4486: Fixed 4 byte information leak in net/core/rtnetlink.c (bsc#978822). - CVE-2016-3134: The netfilter subsystem in the Linux kernel did not validate certain offset fields, which allowed local users to gain privileges or cause a denial of service (heap memory corruption) via an IPT_SO_SET_REPLACE setsockopt call (bnc#971126). - CVE-2016-2847: fs/pipe.c in the Linux kernel did not limit the amount of unread data in pipes, which allowed local users to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) by creating many pipes with non-default sizes (bnc#970948). - CVE-2016-2188: The iowarrior_probe function in
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References
#816446 #861093 #928130 #935757 #939826 #942367
#945825 #946117 #946309 #948562 #949744 #949936
#951440 #952384 #953527 #954404 #955354 #955654
#956708 #956709 #958463 #958886 #958951 #959190
#959399 #961500 #961509 #961512 #963765 #963767
#964201 #966437 #966460 #966662 #966693 #967972
#967973 #967974 #967975 #968010 #968011 #968012
#968013 #968670 #970504 #970892 #970909 #970911
#970948 #970956 #970958 #970970 #971124 #971125
#971126 #971360 #972510 #973570 #975945 #977847
#978822
Cross- CVE-2013-2015 CVE-2013-7446 CVE-2015-0272
CVE-2015-3339 CVE-2015-5307 CVE-2015-6252
CVE-2015-6937 CVE-2015-7509 CVE-2015-7515
CVE-2015-7550 CVE-2015-7566 CVE-2015-7799
CVE-2015-7872 CVE-2015-7990 CVE-2015-8104
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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2016:2074-1
Rating: important
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