Security update for the Linux Kernel (important)

openSUSE Security Update: Security update for the Linux Kernel Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2020:0935-1 Rating: important References: 1058115 1065729 1071995 1085030 1148868 1152472 1152489 1153274 1154353 1154492 1155518 1155798 1156395 1157169 1158050 1158242 1158265 1158748 1158765 1159781...

SUSE-SU-2019:2299-1 Security update for the Linux Kernel

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 SP2 kernel was updated to receive various security and bugfixes. The following security bugs were fixed: - CVE-2019-3819: A flaw was fixed in the function hiddebugeventsread in drivers/hid/hid-debug.c file which may have enter an infinite loop with certain parameters...

SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 Security Update : kernel (SUSE-SU-2019:2073-1)

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 SP1 kernel was updated to receive various security and bugfixes. The following security bugs were fixed : CVE-2018-20855: An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel In createqpcommon in drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx5/qp.c, mlx5ibcreateqpresp was never initialized,...

SUSE-SU-2019:1855-1 Security update for the Linux Kernel

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 kernel version 4.12.14 was updated to receive various security and bugfixes. The following security bugs were fixed: - CVE-2019-10638: Attackers used to be able to track the Linux kernel by the IP ID values the kernel produces for connection-less protocols. When such...

SUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : kernel (SUSE-SU-2019:0801-1)

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 SP3 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...

SUSE-SU-2018:2981-1 Security update for the Linux Kernel

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 kernel was updated to receive various security and bugfixes. The following security bugs were fixed: - CVE-2018-14617: Prevent NULL pointer dereference and panic in hfspluslookup when opening a file that is purportedly a hard link in an hfs+ filesystem that has...

SUSE-SU-2017:2774-1 Security update for Linux Kernel Live Patch 25 for SLE 12

This update for the Linux Kernel 3.12.61-5286 fixes one issue. The following security bugs were fixed: - CVE-2017-15274: security/keys/keyctl.c in the Linux kernel did not consider the case of a NULL payload in conjunction with a nonzero length value, which allowed local users to cause a denial o...

SUSE-SU-2017:2049-1 Security update for Linux Kernel Live Patch 12 for SLE 12 SP1

This update for the Linux Kernel 3.12.69-606429 fixes several issues. The following security bugs were fixed: - CVE-2017-7533: A bug in inotify code allowed local users to escalate privilege bsc1050751. - CVE-2017-7645: The NFSv2/NFSv3 server in the nfsd subsystem in the Linux kernel allowed remo...

SUSE-SU-2017:0246-1 Security update for Linux Kernel Live Patch 15 for SLE 12

This update for the Linux Kernel 3.12.60-5254 fixes several issues. The following security bugs were fixed: - CVE-2016-9806: Race condition in the netlinkdump function in net/netlink/afnetlink.c in the Linux kernel allowed local users to cause a denial of service double free or possibly have...

SUSE-SU-2016:2174-1 Security update for Linux Kernel Live Patch 0 for SLE 12 SP1

This update for the Linux Kernel 3.12.49-11 fixes several issues. The following security bugs were fixed: - CVE-2016-6480: Race condition in the ioctlsendfib function in drivers/scsi/aacraid/commctrl.c in the Linux kernel allowed local users to cause a denial of service out-of-bounds access or...

SUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : kernel (SUSE-SU-2016:1690-1)

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 kernel was updated to 3.12.60 to receive various security and bugfixes. The following security bugs were fixed : - CVE-2014-9717: fs/namespace.c in the Linux kernel processes MNTDETACH umount2 system called without verifying that the MNTLOCKED flag is unset, which...

SUSE-SU-2016:1690-1 Security update for the Linux Kernel

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 kernel was updated to 3.12.60 to receive various security and bugfixes. The following security bugs were fixed: - CVE-2014-9717: fs/namespace.c in the Linux kernel processes MNTDETACH umount2 system called without verifying that the MNTLOCKED flag is unset, which...

openSUSE Security Update : the Linux Kernel (openSUSE-2016-124)

The openSUSE 13.1 kernel was updated to receive various security and bugfixes. Following security bugs were fixed : - CVE-2016-0728: A reference leak in keyring handling with joinsessionkeyring could lead to local attackers gain root privileges. bsc962075. - CVE-2015-7550: A local user could have...

SuSE 11.3 Security Update : Linux kernel (SAT Patch Numbers 9102 / 9104 / 9105)

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 Service Pack 3 kernel has been updated to fix various bugs and security issues. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - WARNING: If you are running KVM with PCI pass-through on a system with one of the following Intel chipsets: 5500...