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-2016-9083

drivers/vfio/pci/vfiopci.c in the Linux kernel through 4.8.11 allows local users to bypass integer overflow checks, and cause a denial of service memory corruption or have unspecified other impact, by leveraging access to a vfio PCI device file for a VFIODEVICESETIRQS ioctl call, aka a "state...