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