SUSE: 2017:0575-1 Critical: Kernel Security Update for 12-SP2
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March 1, 2017
An update that solves 11 vulnerabilities and has 95 fixes An update that solves 11 vulnerabilities and has 95 fixes An update that solves 11 vulnerabilities and has 95 fixes is now...
Summary
The SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 SP2 kernel was updated to 4.4.49 to receive various security and bugfixes. The following security bugs were fixed: - CVE-2016-7117: Use-after-free vulnerability in the __sys_recvmmsg function in net/socket.c in the Linux kernel allowed remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via vectors involving a recvmmsg system call that was mishandled during error processing (bnc#1003077). - CVE-2017-5576: Integer overflow in the vc4_get_bcl function in drivers/gpu/drm/vc4/vc4_gem.c in the VideoCore DRM driver in the Linux kernel allowed local users to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted size value in a VC4_SUBMIT_CL ioctl call (bnc#1021294). - CVE-2017-5577: The vc4_get_bcl function in drivers/gpu/drm/vc4/vc4_gem.c
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