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SUSE: 2016:2593-1 Important: Local Privilege Escalation Issue

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Calendar Grey October 21, 2016
Dist Suse Esm H88
SUSE Security Advisory: Critical updates addressing potential local privilege escalation vulnerabilities in the kernel impacting SUSE Linux environments.
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Summary

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 GA LTSS kernel was updated to fix two issues. This security bug was fixed: - CVE-2016-5195: Local privilege escalation using MAP_PRIVATE. It is reportedly exploited in the wild (bsc#1004418). This non-security bug was fixed: - sched/core: Fix a race between try_to_wake_up() and a woken up task (bsc#1002165, bsc#1001419). Patch Instructions: To install this SUSE Security Update use YaST online_update. Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product: - SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP 12: zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SAP-12-2016-1524=1 - SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-LTSS: zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-2016-1524=1 - SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Public Cloud 12: zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Public-Cloud-12-2016-1524=1

References

#1001419 #1002165 #1004418 #904970 #907150

#920615 #920633 #930408

Cross- CVE-2016-5195

Affected Products:

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP 12

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-LTSS

SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Public Cloud 12

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-5195.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1001419

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1002165

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1004418

https://bugzilla.suse.com/904970

https://bugzilla.suse.com/907150

https://bugzilla.suse.com/920615

https://bugzilla.suse.com/920633

https://bugzilla.suse.com/930408

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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2016:2593-1
Rating: important

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