SUSE: 2017:0407-1 Critical: Kernel Security Updates Addressed
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February 6, 2017
An update that solves 24 vulnerabilities and has 56 fixes An update that solves 24 vulnerabilities and has 56 fixes An update that solves 24 vulnerabilities and has 56 fixes is now...
Summary
The SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 rt-kernel was updated to 3.12.69 to receive various security and bugfixes. The following security bugs were fixed: - CVE-2015-8962: Fixed a double free vulnerability in the SCSI subsystem that allowed local users to gain privileges or cause a denial of service (memory corruption and system crash) (bnc#1010501). - CVE-2015-8963: Fixed a race condition in kernel/events/core.c that allowed local users to gain privileges or cause a denial of service (use-after-free) (bnc#1010502). - CVE-2015-8964: Fixed a bug in the tty_set_termios_ldisc function that allowed local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel memory (bnc#1010507). - CVE-2016-10088: The sg implementation in the Linux kernel did not properly restrict write operations in situations where the KERNEL_DS
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#1003813 #1005666 #1007197 #1008557 #1008567
#1008831 #1008833 #1008876 #1008979 #1009062
#1009969 #1010040 #1010213 #1010294 #1010475
#1010478 #1010501 #1010502 #1010507 #1010612
#1010711 #1010716 #1011685 #1012060 #1012422
#1012754 #1012917 #1012985 #1013001 #1013038
#1013479 #1013531 #1013533 #1013540 #1013604
#1014410 #1014746 #1016713 #1016725 #1016961
#1017164 #1017170 #1017410 #1017710 #1018100
#1019032 #1019148 #1019260 #1019300 #1019783
#1019851 #1020214 #1020602 #1021258 #856380
#857394 #858727 #921338 #921778 #922052 #922056
#923036 #923037 #924381 #938963 #972993 #980560
#981709 #983087 #983348 #984194 #984419 #985850
#987192 #987576 #990384 #991273 #993739 #997807
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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2017:0407-1
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