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SUSE SLE 12 SP2: 2017:0232-1 Important: CVE-2016-10088 DoS

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Calendar Grey January 20, 2017
Dist Suse Esm H88
Important patch released addressing system vulnerability, allowing potential local attack for service interruption in SUSE SLE 12 SP2. Take immediate action!
An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available

Summary

This update for the Linux Kernel 4.4.21-90 fixes several issues. The following security bugs were fixed: - CVE-2016-10088: The sg implementation in the Linux kernel did not properly restrict write operations in situations where the KERNEL_DS option is set, which allowed local users to read or write to arbitrary kernel memory locations or cause a denial of service (use-after-free) by leveraging access to a /dev/sg device, related to block/bsg.c and drivers/scsi/sg.c. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2016-9576 (bsc#1019079). 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 Live Patching 12: zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Live-Patching-12-2017-109=1

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References

#1019079

Cross- CVE-2016-10088

Affected Products:

SUSE Linux Enterprise Live Patching 12

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-10088.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1019079

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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2017:0232-1
Rating: important

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