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SUSE: 2018:1309-1 Important: Kernel Denial Of Service Fixes

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Calendar Grey May 16, 2018
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Crucial Red Hat patch for the Linux kernel resolves 22 vulnerabilities aimed at improving performance and safeguarding user data.
An update that solves 18 vulnerabilities and has 36 fixes is now available

Summary

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 SP4 RT kernel was updated to receive various security and bugfixes. The following security bugs were fixed: - CVE-2018-10124: The kill_something_info function in kernel/signal.c might have allowed local users to cause a denial of service via an INT_MIN argument (bnc#1089752). - CVE-2018-10087: The kernel_wait4 function in kernel/exit.c might have allowed local users to cause a denial of service by triggering an attempted use of the -INT_MIN value (bnc#1089608). - CVE-2018-7757: Memory leak in the sas_smp_get_phy_events function in drivers/scsi/libsas/sas_expander.c allowed local users to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via many read accesses to files in the /sys/class/sas_phy directory, as demonstrated by the

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#1010470 #1013018 #1032084 #1039348 #1050431

#1052943 #1062568 #1062840 #1063416 #1063516

#1065600 #1065999 #1067118 #1067912 #1068032

#1072689 #1072865 #1075088 #1075091 #1075994

#1078669 #1078672 #1078673 #1078674 #1080464

#1080757 #1080813 #1081358 #1082091 #1082424

#1083242 #1083275 #1083483 #1083494 #1084536

#1085113 #1085279 #1085331 #1085513 #1086162

#1087092 #1087209 #1087260 #1087762 #1088147

#1088260 #1089608 #1089665 #1089668 #1089752

#909077 #940776 #943786 #951638

Cross- CVE-2015-5156 CVE-2016-7915 CVE-2017-0861

CVE-2017-12190 CVE-2017-13166 CVE-2017-16644

CVE-2017-16911 CVE-2017-16912 CVE-2017-16913

CVE-2017-16914 CVE-2017-18203 CVE-2017-18208

CVE-2018-10087 CVE-2018-10124 CVE-2018-6927

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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2018:1309-1
Rating: important

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