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SUSE: 2016:3039-1 Important: Kernel Denial Of Service And Privilege Issues

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Calendar Grey December 7, 2016
Dist Suse Esm H88
SUSE has unveiled a vital upgrade for the Linux Kernel aimed at addressing significant security flaws, accompanied by detailed patching guidelines.
An update that fixes three vulnerabilities is now available

Summary

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 SP1 kernel was updated to receive various critical security fixes. The following security bugs were fixed: - CVE-2016-8655: A race condition in the af_packet packet_set_ring function could be used by local attackers to crash the kernel or gain privileges (bsc#1012754). - CVE-2016-8632: The tipc_msg_build function in net/tipc/msg.c in the Linux kernel did not validate the relationship between the minimum fragment length and the maximum packet size, which allowed local users to gain privileges or cause a denial of service (heap-based buffer overflow) by leveraging the CAP_NET_ADMIN capability (bnc#1008831). - CVE-2016-9555: The sctp_sf_ootb function in net/sctp/sm_statefuns.c in the Linux kernel lacks chunk-length checking for the first chunk, which

References

#1008831 #1011685 #1012754

Cross- CVE-2016-8632 CVE-2016-8655 CVE-2016-9555

Affected Products:

SUSE Linux Enterprise Workstation Extension 12-SP1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12-SP1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Public Cloud 12

SUSE Linux Enterprise Live Patching 12

SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12-SP1

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-8632.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-8655.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-9555.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1008831

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1011685

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1012754

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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2016:3039-1
Rating: important

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