SUSE Linux Enterprise 11-SP4: 2017:1301-1 Important: Kernel Security Issues
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May 15, 2017
An update that solves 18 vulnerabilities and has 41 fixes An update that solves 18 vulnerabilities and has 41 fixes An update that solves 18 vulnerabilities and has 41 fixes is now...
Summary
The SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 SP4 kernel was updated to receive various security and bugfixes. Notable new features: - Toleration of newer crypto hardware for z Systems - USB 2.0 Link power management for Haswell-ULT The following security bugs were fixed: - 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, which allowed local users to cause a denial of service (overflow) or possibly have unspecified other impact via crafted system calls (bnc#1031579) - 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
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Cross- CVE-2015-3288 CVE-2015-8970 CVE-2016-10200
CVE-2016-5243 CVE-2017-2671 CVE-2017-5669
CVE-2017-5970 CVE-2017-5986 CVE-2017-6074
CVE-2017-6214 CVE-2017-6348 CVE-2017-6353
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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2017:1301-1
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