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[SECURITY] [DLA 740-1] libgsf security update
Package : libgsf Version : 1.14.21-2.1+deb7u1 CVE ID : CVE-2016-9888 It was discovered that there was a null pointer deference exploit in libgsf, a I/O abstraction library for GNOME. An error within the "tardirectoryforfile" function could be exploited to trigger a null pointer dereference and...
kernel: security and bugfix update (important)
The Linux kernel was updated to fix various bugs and security issues: - mm/page-writeback.c: do not count anon pages as dirtyable memory reclaim stalls. - mm/page-writeback.c: fix dirtybalancereserve subtraction from dirtyable memory reclaim stalls. - compatsysrecvmmsg X32 fix bnc860993...
kernel security and bug fix update
2.6.9-78.0.17.0.1.EL - fix entropy flag in bnx2 driver to generate entropy pool John Sobecki orabug 5931647 - fix skb alignment that was causing sendto to fail with EFAULT Olaf Kirch orabug 6845794 - fix enomem due to larger mtu size page alloc Zach Brown orabug 5486128 - fix percpu api bugon wit...