Security update for the Linux Kernel (important)

The openSUSE Leap 42.1 kernel was updated to receive various security and bugfixes. The following security bugs were fixed: - CVE-2017-7618: crypto/ahash.c in the Linux kernel allowed attackers to cause a denial of service API operation calling its own callback, and infinite recursion by triggeri...

Authorization

A missing authorization check in the fscryptprocesspolicy function in fs/crypto/policy.c in the ext4 and f2fs filesystem encryption support in the Linux kernel before 4.7.4 allows a user to assign an encryption policy to a directory owned by a different user, potentially creating a denial of...

CVE-2016-10318

A missing authorization check in the fscryptprocesspolicy function in fs/crypto/policy.c in the ext4 and f2fs filesystem encryption support in the Linux kernel before 4.7.4 allows a user to assign an encryption policy to a directory owned by a different user, potentially creating a denial of...

CVE-2016-10318

A missing authorization check in the fscryptprocesspolicy function in fs/crypto/policy.c in the ext4 and f2fs filesystem encryption support in the Linux kernel before 4.7.4 allows a user to assign an encryption policy to a directory owned by a different user, potentially creating a denial of...

CVE-2016-10318

A missing authorization check in the fscryptprocesspolicy function in fs/crypto/policy.c in the ext4 and f2fs filesystem encryption support in the Linux kernel before 4.7.4 allows a user to assign an encryption policy to a directory owned by a different user, potentially creating a denial of...

CVE-2016-10318

The CVE-2016-10318 issue affects the Linux kernel’s ext4 and f2fs filesystem encryption support (fs/crypto/policy.c). It is caused by a missing authorization check in fscrypt_process_policy, allowing a user to assign an encryption policy to a directory owned by another user, which can lead to a d...