SUSE CVE-2013-6431

The fib6add function in net/ipv6/ip6fib.c in the Linux kernel before 3.11.5 does not properly implement error-code encoding, which allows local users to cause a denial of service NULL pointer dereference and system crash by leveraging the CAPNETADMIN capability for an IPv6 SIOCADDRT ioctl call...

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...