SUSE: 2017:2062-1 Important Severe Denial Of Service Kernel Update
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August 7, 2017
An update that solves 7 vulnerabilities and has one errata An update that solves 7 vulnerabilities and has one errata An update that solves 7 vulnerabilities and has one errata is ...
Summary
This update for the Linux Kernel 4.4.21-69 fixes several issues. The following security bugs were fixed: - CVE-2017-7533: A bug in inotify code allowed local users to escalate privilege (bsc#1050751). - CVE-2017-8797: The NFSv4 server in the Linux kernel did not properly validate the layout type when processing the NFSv4 pNFS GETDEVICEINFO or LAYOUTGET operand in a UDP packet from a remote attacker. This type value is uninitialized upon encountering certain error conditions. This value is used as an array index for dereferencing, which leads to an OOPS and eventually a DoS of knfsd and a soft-lockup of the whole system (bsc#1046202) - CVE-2017-7645: The NFSv2/NFSv3 server in the nfsd subsystem in the Linux kernel allowed remote attackers to cause a denial of service (system
References
#1027575 #1038564 #1042364 #1042892 #1046191
#1046202 #1046206 #1050751
Cross- CVE-2017-2636 CVE-2017-7533 CVE-2017-7645
CVE-2017-8797 CVE-2017-8890 CVE-2017-9077
CVE-2017-9242
Affected Products:
SUSE Linux Enterprise Live Patching 12
https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-2636.html
https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-7533.html
https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-7645.html
https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-8797.html
https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-8890.html
https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-9077.html
https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-9242.html
https://bugzilla.suse.com/1027575
https://bugzilla.suse.com/1038564
https://bugzilla.suse.com/1042364
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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2017:2062-1
Rating: important
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