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HistoryFeb 22, 2016 - 12:11 p.m.

Security update for the Linux Kernel (important)

2016-02-2212:11:15
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The openSUSE 13.2 kernel was updated to receive security and bugfixes.

It also fixes a regression that caused the Chromium sandbox to no longer
work (bsc#965356).

Following security bugs were fixed:

  • CVE-2016-2069: A flaw was discovered in a way the Linux deals with
    paging structures. When Linux invalidates a paging structure that is not
    in use locally, it could, in principle, race against another CPU that is
    switching to a process that uses the paging structure in question,
    causing a local denial service (machine crash). (bnc#963767).
  • CVE-2016-0723: Race condition in the tty_ioctl function in
    drivers/tty/tty_io.c in the Linux kernel allowed local users to obtain
    sensitive information from kernel memory or cause a denial of service
    (use-after-free and system crash) by making a TIOCGETD ioctl call during
    processing of a TIOCSETD ioctl call (bnc#961500).

The following non-security bugs were fixed:

  • Bluetooth: ath3k: workaround the compatibility issue with xHCI
    controller (bnc#907378).
  • kABI fix for addition of user_namespace.flags field (bnc#965308,
    bnc#965356).
  • userns: Add a knob to disable setgroups on a per user namespace basis
    (bnc#965308, bnc#965356).
  • userns: Allow setting gid_maps without privilege when setgroups is
    disabled (bnc#965308, bnc#965356).
  • userns: Rename id_map_mutex to userns_state_mutex (bnc#965308,
    bnc#965356).