The SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 GA kernel was updated to receive one critical security fix.
Security issue fixed:
- CVE-2016-4997: A buffer overflow in 32bit compat_setsockopt iptables handling could lead to a local privilege escalation. (bsc#986362)
The SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 kernel was updated to 3.12.60 to receive various security and bugfixes.
The following security bugs were fixed:
- CVE-2014-9717: fs/namespace.c in the Linux kernel processes MNT_DETACH umount2 system called without verifying that the MNT_LOCKED flag is unset, which allowed local users to bypass intended access restrictions and navigate to filesystem locations beneath a mount by calling umount2 within a user namespace (bnc#928547).
- CVE-2015-8816: The hub_activate function in drivers/usb/core/hub.c in the Linux kernel did not properly maintain a hub-interface data structure, which allowed physically proximate at
The SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 GA kernel was updated to fix one security issue.
The following security bug was fixed:
- CVE-2016-1583: Prevent the usage of mmap when the lower file system does not allow it. This could have lead to local privilege escalation when ecryptfs-utils was installed and /sbin/mount.ecryptfs_private was setuid (bsc#983143).
The SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 kernel was updated to 3.12.55 to receive various security and bugfixes.
Features added:
- A improved XEN blkfront module was added, which allows more I/O bandwidth. (FATE#320625)
It is called xen-blkfront in PV, and xen-vbd-upstream in HVM mode.
The following security bugs were fixed:
- CVE-2013-7446: Use-after-free vulnerability in net/unix/af_unix.c in
the Linux kernel allowed local users to bypass intended AF_UNIX socket
permissions or cause a denial of service (panic) via crafted epoll_ctl
calls (bnc#955654).
- CVE-2015-5707: Integer overflow in the sg_start_req function in
drivers/scsi/sg.c in th
The SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 kernel was updated to receive a security fix.
Following security bug was fixed:
- A reference leak in keyring handling with join_session_keyring() could lead
to local attackers gain root privileges. (bsc#962075, CVE-2016-0728).
The SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 kernel was updated to receive various security and bugfixes.
Following security bugs were fixed:
- CVE-2015-7550: A local user could have triggered a race between read and revoke in keyctl (bnc#958951).
- CVE-2015-8539: A negatively instantiated user key could have been used by a local user to leverage privileges (bnc#958463).
- CVE-2015-8543: The networking implementation in the Linux kernel did not validate protocol identifiers for certain protocol families, which allowed local users to cause a denial of service (NULL function pointer dereference and system crash) or possibly gain privileges by leveraging CLONE
The SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 kernel was updated to 3.12.51 to receive various security and bugfixes.
Following security bugs were fixed:
- CVE-2015-7799: The slhc_init function in drivers/net/slip/slhc.c in the Linux kernel did not ensure that certain slot numbers were valid, which allowed local users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and system crash) via a crafted PPPIOCSMAXCID ioctl call (bnc#949936).
- CVE-2015-5283: The sctp_init function in net/sctp/protocol.c in the Linux kernel had an incorrect sequence of protocol-initialization steps, which allowed local users to cause a denial of service (panic or memory corru
The SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 kernel was updated to 3.12.48-52.27 to
receive various security and bugfixes.
Following security bugs were fixed:
* CVE-2015-7613: A flaw was found in the Linux kernel IPC code that could
lead to arbitrary code execution. The ipc_addid() function initialized
a shared object that has unset uid/gid values. Since the fields are not
initialized, the check can falsely succeed. (bsc#948536)
* CVE-2015-5156: When a guests KVM network devices is in a bridge
configuration the kernel can create a situation in which packets are
fragmented in an unexpected fashion. The GRO functionality can create
a situation in
The SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 kernel was updated to version 3.12.44-52.13
to receive various bugfixes.
- Btrfs: don't initialize a space info as full to prevent ENOSPC (bsc#944001).
- kernel/kvm: Fix MSA3/MSA4 detection (bsc#936916, LTC#127868).
- zcrypt: Fixed reset and interrupt handling of AP queues (bsc#936916,
LTC#126491).
- Update s390x kABI files after gcc update (bsc#924525).
Security update for the SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 kernel
The SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 kernel was updated to 3.12.44 to receive various security and bugfixes.
These features were added:
- mpt2sas: Added Reply Descriptor Post Queue (RDPQ) Array support (bsc#854824).
- mpt3sas: Bump mpt3sas driver version to 04.100.00.00 (bsc#854817).
Following security bugs were fixed:
- CVE-2015-1805: iov overrun for failed atomic copy could have lead to
DoS or privilege escalation (bsc#933429).
- CVE-2015-3212: A race condition in the way the Linux kernel handled
lists of associations in SCTP sockets could have lead to list
corruption and kernel panics (bsc#936502).
- CVE-2015-4036: DoS via memory corruptio
The SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 kernel was updated to version 3.12.43 to receive various security and bugfixes.
Following security bugs were fixed:
- CVE-2014-3647: arch/x86/kvm/emulate.c in the KVM subsystem in the Linux kernel through 3.17.2 did not properly perform RIP changes, which allowed guest OS users to cause a denial of service (guest OS crash) via a crafted application (bsc#899192).
- CVE-2014-8086: Race condition in the ext4_file_write_iter function in fs/ext4/file.c in the Linux kernel through 3.17 allowed local users to cause a denial of service (file unavailability) via a combination of a write action and an F_SETFL fcntl operat
The SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 kernel was updated to 3.12.39 to
receive various security and bugfixes.
Following security bugs were fixed:
- CVE-2015-0777: The XEN usb backend could leak information to the guest
system due to copying uninitialized memory.
- CVE-2015-2150: Xen and the Linux kernel did not properly restrict access
to PCI command registers, which might have allowed local guest users to
cause a denial of service (non-maskable interrupt and host crash) by
disabling the (1) memory or (2) I/O decoding for a PCI Express device
and then accessing the device, which triggers an Unsupported Request
(UR) response.
The
The SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 kernel was updated to 3.12.38 to receive
various security and bugfixes.
This update contains the following feature enablements:
- The remote block device (rbd) and ceph drivers have been enabled and
are now supported. (FATE#318350)
These can be used e.g. for accessing the SUSE Enterprise Storage product
services.
- Support for Intel Select Bay trail CPUs has been added. (FATE#316038)
Following security issues were fixed:
- CVE-2014-9419: The __switch_to function in arch/x86/kernel/process_64.c
in the Linux kernel through 3.18.1 did not ensure that Thread Local
Storage (TLS) descriptors were loaded be