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SUSE Linux 11-SP4 Important: Security Updates for Kernel

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Calendar Grey March 15, 2019
Dist Suse Esm H88
SUSE Security Update: Security update for the Linux Kernel _________________________________________
An update that solves 8 vulnerabilities and has 73 fixes is now available

Summary

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 SP4 kernel was updated to receive various security and bugfixes. The following security bugs were fixed: - CVE-2016-10741: fs/xfs/xfs_aops.c allowed local users to cause a denial of service (system crash) because there is a race condition between direct and memory-mapped I/O (associated with a hole) that is handled with BUG_ON instead of an I/O failure (bnc#1114920 bnc#1124010). - CVE-2017-18360: In change_port_settings in drivers/usb/serial/io_ti.c local users could cause a denial of service by division-by-zero in the serial device layer by trying to set very high baud rates (bnc#1123706). - CVE-2018-9568: In sk_clone_lock of sock.c, there is a possible memory corruption due to type confusion. This could lead to local escalation of

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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2019:13979-1
Rating: important

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