SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 SP1: 2016:2105-1 Critical Kernel Security Update
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August 19, 2016
An update that solves 21 vulnerabilities and has 55 fixes An update that solves 21 vulnerabilities and has 55 fixes An update that solves 21 vulnerabilities and has 55 fixes is now...
Summary
The SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 SP1 kernel was updated to 3.12.62 to receive various security and bugfixes. The following security bugs were fixed: - 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 users to cause a denial of service (insufficient memory allocation) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted SNDRV_COMPRESS_SET_PARAMS ioctl call (bnc#986811). - CVE-2015-7833: The usbvision driver in the Linux kernel allowed physically proximate attackers to cause a denial of service (panic) via a nonzero bInterfaceNumber value in a USB device descriptor (bnc#950998). - CVE-2015-8551: The PCI backend driver in Xen, when running on an x86
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#947337 #950998 #951844 #953048 #954847 #956491
#957990 #962742 #963655 #963762 #965087 #966245
#968667 #970114 #970506 #971770 #972933 #973378
#973499 #974165 #974308 #974620 #975531 #975533
#975772 #975788 #977417 #978401 #978469 #978822
#979074 #979213 #979419 #979485 #979489 #979521
#979548 #979681 #979867 #979879 #979922 #980348
#980363 #980371 #980856 #980883 #981038 #981143
#981344 #981597 #982282 #982354 #982544 #982698
#983143 #983213 #983318 #983721 #983904 #983977
#984148 #984456 #984755 #984764 #985232 #985978
#986362 #986365 #986569 #986572 #986573 #986811
#988215 #988498 #988552 #990058
Cross- CVE-2014-9904 CVE-2015-7833 CVE-2015-8551
CVE-2015-8552 CVE-2015-8845 CVE-2016-0758
CVE-2016-...
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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2016:2105-1
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