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SUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : kernel (SUSE-SU-2016:1709-1)

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The SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 kernel was updated to receive critical security and bugfixes. 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 update package also includes non-security fixes. See advisory for details. Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.


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