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SUSE 11 SP3 Security Advisory 2017:2725-1 Important Local Escalation Risk

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Calendar Grey October 14, 2017
Dist Suse Esm H88
SUSE Security Announcement for System Kernel: Critical guidance on resolving local privilege elevation vulnerability in SUSE 11 SP3.
An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available

Summary

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 SP3 kernel was updated to fix the following issues: - Stack corruption could have lead to local privilege escalation (bsc#1059525, CVE-2017-1000253). Patch Instructions: To install this SUSE Security Update use YaST online_update. Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product: - SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11-SP3-LTSS: zypper in -t patch slessp3-kernel-13314=1 - SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11-EXTRA: zypper in -t patch slexsp3-kernel-13314=1 - SUSE Linux Enterprise Point of Sale 11-SP3: zypper in -t patch sleposp3-kernel-13314=1 - SUSE Linux Enterprise Debuginfo 11-SP3: zypper in -t patch dbgsp3-kernel-13314=1 To bring your system up-to-date, use "zypper patch". Package List: - SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11-SP3-LTSS (i586 s390x x86_64):

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References

#1059525

Cross- CVE-2017-1000253

Affected Products:

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11-SP3-LTSS

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11-EXTRA

SUSE Linux Enterprise Point of Sale 11-SP3

SUSE Linux Enterprise Debuginfo 11-SP3

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-1000253.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1059525

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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2017:2725-1
Rating: important

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