Security update for Linux Kernel Live Patch 23 for SLE 12
This update for the Linux Kernel 3.12.61-52_80 fixes several issues.
The following security bugs were fixed:
- CVE-2017-7533: A bug in inotify code allowed local users to escalate privilege (bsc#1050751).
- CVE-2017-7645: The NFSv2/NFSv3 server in the nfsd subsystem in the Linux kernel allowed remote attackers to cause a denial of service (system crash) via a long RPC reply, related to net/sunrpc/svc.c, fs/nfsd/nfs3xdr.c, and fs/nfsd/nfsxdr.c (bsc#1046191).
- CVE-2017-9242: The __ip6_append_data function in net/ipv6/ip6_output.c in the Linux kernel is too late in checking whether an overwrite of an skb data structure may occur, which allowe
This Linux kernel update for SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 fixes the following issues:
- A previous security update to address CVE-2017-1000364 caused unintended
side-effects in several other tools, most notably Java. These issues have
been remedied. [bsc#1045340]