SUSE 12-SP2: 2017-0181-1 Important: Kernel Denial Of Service Threat
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January 17, 2017
An update that solves 13 vulnerabilities and has 127 fixes An update that solves 13 vulnerabilities and has 127 fixes An update that solves 13 vulnerabilities and has 127 fixes is ...
Summary
The SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 SP2 kernel was updated to 4.4.38 to receive various security and bugfixes. The following security bugs were fixed: - CVE-2015-1350: The VFS subsystem in the Linux kernel 3.x provides an incomplete set of requirements for setattr operations that underspecifies removing extended privilege attributes, which allowed local users to cause a denial of service (capability stripping) via a failed invocation of a system call, as demonstrated by using chown to remove a capability from the ping or Wireshark dumpcap program (bnc#914939). - CVE-2015-8964: The tty_set_termios_ldisc function in drivers/tty/tty_ldisc.c in the Linux kernel allowed local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel memory by reading a tty data structure (bnc#1010507).
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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2017:0181-1
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