SUSE Linux 11-SP4: SUSE-SU-2016:3069-1 Critical: Kernel Security Update
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December 9, 2016
An update that solves 11 vulnerabilities and has 49 fixes An update that solves 11 vulnerabilities and has 49 fixes An update that solves 11 vulnerabilities and has 49 fixes is now...
Summary
The SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 SP4 RT kernel was updated to receive various security and bugfixes. This feature was added: - Support for the 2017 Intel Purley platform. The following security bugs were fixed: - CVE-2016-5195: A local privilege escalation using MAP_PRIVATE was fixed, which is reportedly exploited in the wild (bsc#1004418). - CVE-2016-0823: The pagemap_open function in fs/proc/task_mmu.c in the Linux kernel allowed local users to obtain sensitive physical-address information by reading a pagemap file, aka Android internal bug 25739721 (bnc#994759). - CVE-2016-3841: The IPv6 stack in the Linux kernel mishandled options data, which allowed local users to gain privileges or cause a denial of service (use-after-free and system crash) via a crafted sendmsg system call (bnc#992566).
References
#1000189 #1001419 #1002165 #1004418 #732582
#839104 #843236 #909994 #911687 #915183 #920016
#934760 #951392 #956514 #960689 #963655 #971975
#971989 #974620 #976867 #977687 #979514 #979595
#979681 #980371 #982218 #982783 #983535 #983619
#984102 #984194 #984992 #985206 #986362 #986365
#986445 #987565 #988440 #989152 #989261 #989779
#991608 #991665 #991923 #992566 #993127 #993890
#993891 #994296 #994436 #994618 #994759 #994926
#996329 #996664 #997708 #998399 #999584 #999600
#999932
Cross- CVE-2013-4312 CVE-2015-7513 CVE-2016-0823
CVE-2016-3841 CVE-2016-4997 CVE-2016-4998
CVE-2016-5195 CVE-2016-5696 CVE-2016-6480
CVE-2016-6828 CVE-2016-7425
Affected Products:
SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time Extension 11-SP4
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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2016:3069-1
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