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HistoryAug 15, 2017 - 9:06 p.m.

Security update for the Linux Kernel (important)

2017-08-1521:06:55
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The openSUSE Leap 42.2 kernel was updated to receive various security and
bugfixes.

The following security bugs were fixed:

  • CVE-2017-1000111: Fixed a race condition in net-packet code that could
    be exploited to cause out-of-bounds memory access (bsc#1052365).
  • CVE-2017-1000112: Fixed a race condition in net-packet code that could
    have been exploited by unprivileged users to gain root access.
    (bsc#1052311).
  • CVE-2017-8831: The saa7164_bus_get function in
    drivers/media/pci/saa7164/saa7164-bus.c in the Linux kernel allowed
    local users to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds array access) or
    possibly have unspecified other impact by changing a certain
    sequence-number value, aka a "double fetch" vulnerability (bnc#1037994).

The following non-security bugs were fixed:

  • IB/hfi1: Wait for QSFP modules to initialize (bsc#1019151).
  • bcache: force trigger gc (bsc#1038078).
  • bcache: only recovery I/O error for writethrough mode (bsc#1043652).
  • block: do not allow updates through sysfs until registration completes
    (bsc#1047027).
  • ibmvnic: Check for transport event on driver resume (bsc#1051556,
    bsc#1052709).
  • ibmvnic: Initialize SCRQ’s during login renegotiation (bsc#1052223).
  • ibmvnic: Report rx buffer return codes as netdev_dbg (bsc#1052794).
  • iommu/amd: Fix schedule-while-atomic BUG in initialization code
    (bsc1052533).
  • libnvdimm, pmem: fix a NULL pointer BUG in nd_pmem_notify (bsc#1023175).
  • libnvdimm: fix badblock range handling of ARS range (bsc#1023175).
  • qeth: fix L3 next-hop im xmit qeth hdr (bnc#1052773, LTC#157374).
  • scsi_devinfo: fixup string compare (bsc#1037404).
  • scsi_dh_alua: suppress errors from unsupported devices (bsc#1038792).
  • vfs: fix missing inode_get_dev sites (bsc#1052049).
  • x86/dmi: Switch dmi_remap() from ioremap() to ioremap_cache()
    (bsc#1051399).