Security update for Linux Kernel Live Patch 20 for SLE 12
This update for the Linux Kernel 3.12.61-52_69 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).
- A SUSE Linux Enterprise specific regression in tearing down network namespaces was fixed (bsc#1044878)
- CVE-2017-9242: The __ip6_append_data function in net/ipv6/ip6_output.c in the L
Security update for Linux Kernel Live Patch 20 for SLE 12
This update for the Linux Kernel 3.12.61-52_69 fixes several issues.
The following security bugs were fixed:
- CVE-2017-1000364: An issue was discovered in the size of the stack guard page on Linux, specifically a 4k stack guard page is not sufficiently large and can be 'jumped' over (the stack guard page is bypassed) (bsc#1039496).
Security update for Linux Kernel Live Patch 20 for SLE 12
This update the for Linux Kernel 3.12.61-52.69 fixes one issue.
The following security bug was fixed:
- CVE-2017-5970: The ipv4_pktinfo_prepare function in
net/ipv4/ip_sockglue.c in the Linux kernel allowed attackers to cause a
denial of service (system crash) via (1) an application that made
crafted system calls or possibly (2) IPv4 traffic with invalid IP
options (bsc#1025013).
- CVE-2017-7308: The packet_set_ring function in net/packet/af_packet.c in the Linux kernel did not properly validate certain block-size data, which allowed local users to cause a denial of service (overflow) or possibly have unspecified other impact via c
The SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 kernel was updated to fix the following security bugs:
- CVE-2017-7184: The Linux kernel allowed local users to obtain root privileges or cause a denial of service (heap-based out-of-bounds access) via unspecified vectors, as demonstrated during a Pwn2Own competition at CanSecWest 2017 (bnc#1030573, bnc#1028372).
- CVE-2017-2636: Race condition in drivers/tty/n_hdlc.c in the Linux kernel allowed local users to gain privileges or cause a denial of service (double free) by setting the HDLC line discipline (bnc#1027565).