openSUSE Security Update : the Linux Kernel (openSUSE-2019-1085)

The openSUSE Leap 42.3 kernel was updated to 4.4.176 to receive various security and bugfixes. The following security bugs were fixed : - CVE-2019-9213: expanddownwards in mm/mmap.c lacked a check for the mmap minimum address, which made it easier for attackers to exploit kernel NULL pointer...

USN-3821-1 linux, linux-aws, linux-kvm, linux-raspi2, linux-snapdragon vulnerabilities

Wen Xu discovered that the ext4 filesystem implementation in the Linux kernel did not properly ensure that xattr information remained in inode bodies. An attacker could use this to construct a malicious ext4 image that, when mounted, could cause a denial of service system crash. CVE-2018-10880 It...