openSUSE Security Update : the Linux Kernel (openSUSE-2016-1426)

The openSUSE Leap 42.2 kernel was updated to 4.4.36 to receive various security and bugfixes. The following security bugs were fixed : - CVE-2015-1350: The VFS subsystem in the Linux kernel 3.x provides an incomplete set of requirements for setattr operations that underspecifies removing extended...

CVE-2016-9084

drivers/vfio/pci/vfiopciintrs.c in the Linux kernel through 4.8.11 misuses the kzalloc function, which allows local users to cause a denial of service integer overflow or have unspecified other impact by leveraging access to a vfio PCI device file...

CVE-2016-9084

drivers/vfio/pci/vfiopciintrs.c in the Linux kernel through 4.8.11 misuses the kzalloc function, which allows local users to cause a denial of service integer overflow or have unspecified other impact by leveraging access to a vfio PCI device file...

PT-2016-7648

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Linux kernel versions prior to 4.8.12 Description The issue is related to the misuse of the kzalloc function in the Linux kernel, which can be exploited by local users to cause a denial of service or have other unspecified impacts. This can be...