SUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : kernel (SUSE-SU-2016:2912-1)

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 kernel was updated to 3.12.67 to receive various security and bugfixes. The following security bugs were fixed : - CVE-2016-7042: The prockeysshow function in security/keys/proc.c in the Linux kernel used an incorrect buffer size for certain timeout data, which allowe...

kernel: sctp: a race between ICMP protocol unreachable and connect()

Race condition in the sctpicmpprotounreachable function in net/sctp/input.c in Linux kernel 2.6.11-rc2 through 2.6.33 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service panic via an ICMP unreachable message to a socket that is already locked by a user, which causes the socket to be freed and...

kernel security and bug fix update

2.4.21-63.0.0.0.1.EL - add directio support for qla drivers herb ora 6346849 - support PT Quad card ora 5751043 - io to nfs partition hangs ora 5088963 - add entropy for bnx2 nic ora 5931647 - avoid large allocation-fragmentation in MTU zab - fix clear highpage wli 2.4.21-63.EL - fs: fix pipe nul...