SUSE-SU-2017:0780-1 Security update for Linux Kernel Live Patch 19 for SLE 12

This update for the Linux Kernel 3.12.61-5266 fixes one issue. The following security bug was fixed: - CVE-2017-5970: The ipv4pktinfoprepare function in net/ipv4/ipsockglue.c in the Linux kernel allowed attackers to cause a denial of service system crash via 1 an application that made crafted...

SUSE-SU-2017:0762-1 Security update for Linux Kernel Live Patch 5 for SLE 12 SP1

This update for the Linux Kernel 3.12.59-6041 fixes one issue. The following security bug was fixed: - CVE-2017-5970: The ipv4pktinfoprepare function in net/ipv4/ipsockglue.c in the Linux kernel allowed attackers to cause a denial of service system crash via 1 an application that made crafted...

SUSE-SU-2017:0766-1 Security update for Linux Kernel Live Patch 18 for SLE 12

This update for the Linux Kernel 3.12.60-5263 fixes one issue. The following security bug was fixed: - CVE-2017-5970: The ipv4pktinfoprepare function in net/ipv4/ipsockglue.c in the Linux kernel allowed attackers to cause a denial of service system crash via 1 an application that made crafted...

SUSE-SU-2017:0767-1 Security update for Linux Kernel Live Patch 15 for SLE 12

This update for the Linux Kernel 3.12.60-5254 fixes one issue. The following security bug was fixed: - CVE-2017-5970: The ipv4pktinfoprepare function in net/ipv4/ipsockglue.c in the Linux kernel allowed attackers to cause a denial of service system crash via 1 an application that made crafted...

openSUSE Security Update : dracut (openSUSE-2017-347)

This update for dracut fixes the following issues : Security issues fixed : - CVE-2016-8637: When the early microcode loading was enabled during initrd creation, the initrd would be read-only available for all users, allowing local users to retrieve secrets stored in the initial ramdisk. bsc10083...

Security update for util-linux (important)

This update for util-linux fixes the following issues: This security issue was fixed: - CVE-2017-2616: In su with PAM support it was possible for local users to send SIGKILL to selected other processes with root privileges bsc1023041. This non-security issues were fixed: - lscpu: Implement WSL...

Security update for systemd (important)

This update for systemd fixes the following issues: This security issue was fixed: - CVE-2016-10156: Fix permissions set on permanent timer timestamp files, preventing local unprivileged users from escalating privileges bsc1020601. These non-security issues were fixed: - Fix permission set on...

SUSE-SU-2017:0234-1 Security update for Linux Kernel Live Patch 4 for SLE 12 SP1

This update for the Linux Kernel 3.12.57-6035 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-2017:0232-1 Security update for Linux Kernel Live Patch 3 for SLE 12 SP2

This update for the Linux Kernel 4.4.21-90 fixes several issues. The following security bugs were fixed: - CVE-2016-10088: The sg implementation in the Linux kernel did not properly restrict write operations in situations where the KERNELDS option is set, which allowed local users to read or writ...

Security update for qemu (important)

qemu was updated to fix several issues. These security issues were fixed: - CVE-2016-9102: Memory leak in the v9fsxattrcreate function in hw/9pfs/9p.c in allowed local guest OS administrators to cause a denial of service memory consumption and QEMU process crash via a large number of Txattrcreate...

openSUSE Security Update : samba (openSUSE-2017-12)

This update for samba fixes the following issues : Security issues fixed : - CVE-2016-2125: Don't send delegated credentials to all servers. bsc1014441. - CVE-2016-2126: Denial of service due to a client triggered crash in the winbindd parent process. bsc1014442. - CVE-2016-2123: Heap-based Buffe...

SUSE-SU-2016:3119-1 Security update for Linux Kernel Live Patch 11 for SLE 12

This update for the Linux Kernel 3.12.51-5239 fixes several issues. The following security bugs were fixed: - CVE-2016-8655: A race condition in the afpacket packetsetring function could be used by local attackers to crash the kernel or gain privileges bsc1012759. - CVE-2016-9555: The sctpsfootb...

openSUSE Security Update : libgit2 (openSUSE-2016-1450)

libgit2 was updated to fix two security issues. These security issues were fixed : - CVE-2016-8568: Read out-of-bounds in gitoidnfmt bsc1003810. - CVE-2016-8569: DoS caused by a NULL pointer dereference in gitcommitmessage bsc1003810. This update was imported from the SUSE:SLE-12-SP2:Update updat...

openSUSE Security Update : sudo (openSUSE-2016-1402)

This update for sudo fixes the following security issues : - Fix two security vulnerabilities that allowed users to bypass sudo's NOEXEC functionality : - noexec bypass via system and popen CVE-2016-7032, bsc1007766 - noexec bypass via wordexp CVE-2016-7076, bsc1007501 - Fix unsafe handling of TZ...

openSUSE Security Update : tar (openSUSE-2016-1401)

This update for tar fixes the following issues : - Fix the POINTYFEATHER vulnerability - GNU tar archiver can be tricked into extracting files and directories in the given destination, regardless of the path names specified on the command line bsc1007188 CVE-2016-6321 - Fix Amanda integration iss...

SUSE-SU-2016:2657-1 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-2016-5195: A local privilege escalation using MAPPRIVATE was fixed, which is reportedly exploited in the wild bsc1004419...

Security update for ghostscript-library (important)

This update for ghostscript-library fixes the following issues: - Multiple security vulnerabilities have been discovered where ghostscript's "-dsafer" flag did not provide sufficient protection against unintended access to the file system. Thus, a machine that would process a specially crafted...

openSUSE Security Update : wpa_supplicant (openSUSE-2016-1104)

This update for wpasupplicant fixes the following issues : - CVE-2015-4141: WPS UPnP vulnerability with HTTP chunked transfer encoding. bnc930077 - CVE-2015-4142: Integer underflow in AP mode WMM Action frame processing. bnc930078 - CVE-2015-4143: EAP-pwd missing payload length validation...

SUSE-SU-2016:2230-1 Security update for Linux Kernel Live Patch 7 for SLE 12 SP1

This update for the Linux Kernel 3.12.62-6062 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-SU-2016:1999-1 Security update for Linux Kernel Live Patch 14 for SLE 12

This update for the Linux Kernel 3.12.60-5249 fixes several issues. The following security bugs were fixed: - CVE-2016-4470: The keyrejectandlink function in security/keys/key.c in the Linux kernel did not ensure that a certain data structure is initialized, which allowed local users to cause a...