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SUSE: 2019:5432-2 Critical Update for SLE 12 SP1 Kernel Exploits

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Calendar Grey October 19, 2017
Dist Suse Esm H88
Fortify your SLE 12 SP1 environment by applying an essential kernel update that rectifies significant vulnerabilities, thereby improving overall system reliability.
An update that fixes two vulnerabilities is now available

Summary

This update for the Linux Kernel 3.12.74-60_64_40 fixes one issue. The following security bugs were fixed: - CVE-2017-15274: security/keys/keyctl.c in the Linux kernel did not consider the case of a NULL payload in conjunction with a nonzero length value, which allowed local users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and OOPS) via a crafted add_key or keyctl system call (bsc#1045327). - CVE-2017-1000251: The native Bluetooth stack in the Linux Kernel (BlueZ) was vulnerable to a stack overflow vulnerability in the processing of L2CAP configuration responses resulting in Remote code execution in kernel space (bsc#1057950). Patch Instructions: To install this SUSE Security Update use YaST online_update. Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

References

#1045327 #1057950

Cross- CVE-2017-1000251 CVE-2017-15274

Affected Products:

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP 12-SP1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP1-LTSS

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-1000251.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-15274.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1045327

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1057950

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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2017:2787-1
Rating: important

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