SUSE: 2017:1183-1 Important: Linux Kernel Denial of Service Threats
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May 5, 2017
An update that solves 16 vulnerabilities and has 69 fixes An update that solves 16 vulnerabilities and has 69 fixes An update that solves 16 vulnerabilities and has 69 fixes is now...
Summary
The SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 SP2 kernel was updated to 4.4.58 to receive various security and bugfixes. Notable new/improved features: - Improved support for Hyper-V - Support for Matrox G200eH3 - Support for tcp_westwood The following security bugs were fixed: - CVE-2017-2671: The ping_unhash function in net/ipv4/ping.c in the Linux kernel was too late in obtaining a certain lock and consequently could not ensure that disconnect function calls are safe, which allowed local users to cause a denial of service (panic) by leveraging access to the protocol value of IPPROTO_ICMP in a socket system call (bnc#1031003). - CVE-2017-7308: The packet_set_ring function in net/packet/af_packet.c in the Linux kernel did not properly validate certain block-size data,
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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2017:1183-1
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