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SUSE 12-SP1 Security Advisory: 2016:2912-1 Critical Denial of Service Risks

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Calendar Grey November 25, 2016
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SUSE Security Patch resolves 11 issues within the Linux Kernel, providing essential corrections for overall system reliability.
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Summary

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 kernel was updated to 3.12.67 to receive various security and bugfixes. The following security bugs were fixed: - CVE-2016-7042: The proc_keys_show function in security/keys/proc.c in the Linux kernel used an incorrect buffer size for certain timeout data, which allowed local users to cause a denial of service (stack memory corruption and panic) by reading the /proc/keys file (bsc#1004517). - CVE-2016-7097: The filesystem implementation in the Linux kernel preserved the setgid bit during a setxattr call, which allowed local users to gain group privileges by leveraging the existence of a setgid program with restrictions on execute permissions (bsc#995968). - CVE-2015-8956: The rfcomm_sock_bind function in net/bluetooth/rfcomm/sock.c in the Linux kernel allowed local users to

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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2016:2912-1
Rating: important

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