openSUSE Security Update : the Linux Kernel (openSUSE-2017-1391) (Dirty COW)

The openSUSE Leap 42.3 kernel was updated to 4.4.103 to receive various security and bugfixes. The following security bugs were fixed : - CVE-2017-1000405: A bug in the THP CoW support could be used by local attackers to corrupt memory of other processes and cause them to crash bnc1069496. -...

CVE-2016-2543

The sndseqioctlremoveevents function in sound/core/seq/seqclientmgr.c in the Linux kernel before 4.4.1 does not verify FIFO assignment before proceeding with FIFO clearing, which allows local users to cause a denial of service NULL pointer dereference and OOPS via a crafted ioctl call...