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openSUSE Security Update : the Linux Kernel (openSUSE-2016-629)

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The openSUSE Leap 42.1 kernel was updated to receive various security and bugfixes. The following security bugs were fixed : - CVE-2016-2847: Limit the per-user amount of pages allocated in pipes (bsc#970948). - CVE-2016-3136: mct_u232: add sanity checking in probe (bnc#970955). - CVE-2016-2188: iowarrior: fix oops with malicious USB descriptors (bnc#970956). - CVE-2016-3138: cdc-acm: more sanity checking (bnc#970911). - CVE-2016-3137: cypress_m8: add endpoint sanity check (bnc#970970). - CVE-2016-3951: cdc_ncm: do not call usbnet_link_change from cdc_ncm_bind (bnc#974418). - CVE-2016-3140: digi_acceleport: do sanity checking for the number of ports (bnc#970892). - CVE-2016-2186: powermate: fix oops with malicious USB descriptors (bnc#970958). - CVE-2016-2185: usb_driver_claim_interface: add sanity checking (bnc#971124). - CVE-2016-3689: ims-pcu: sanity check against missing interfaces (bnc#971628). - CVE-2016-3156: ipv4: Do not do expensive useless work during inetdev destroy (bsc#971360). The following non-security bugs were fixed : - ALSA: timer: Call notifier in the same spinlock (bsc#973378). - ALSA: timer: Protect the whole snd_timer_close() with open race (bsc#973378). - ALSA: timer: Sync timer deletion at closing the system timer (bsc#973378). - ALSA: timer: Use mod_timer() for rearming the system timer (bsc#973378). - Backport arm64 patches from SLE12-SP1-ARM - Fix kABI additions for pipe: limit the per-user amount of pages allocated in pipes. - Revert 'drm/radeon: call hpd_irq_event on resume' (boo#975868). - Update config files. Enable RTC_HCTOSYS, build I2C_XGENE_SLIMPRO as a module. - backends: guarantee one time reads of shared ring contents (bsc#957988). - ext4: fix races between buffered IO and collapse / insert range (bsc#972174). - ext4: fix races between page faults and hole punching (bsc#972174). - ext4: fix races of writeback with punch hole and zero range (bsc#972174). - ext4: move unlocked dio protection from ext4_alloc_file_blocks() (bsc#972174). - net: thunderx: Use napi_schedule_irqoff() - netback: do not use last request to determine minimum Tx credit (bsc#957988).


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