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HistoryNov 24, 2015 - 7:16 p.m.

Security update for Linux Kernel Live Patch 2 (important)

2015-11-2419:16:21
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This kernel live patch for Linux Kernel 3.12.36-38.1 fixes two security
issues:

  • CVE-2015-7613: A race condition in the IPC object implementation in the
    Linux kernel allowed local users to gain privileges by triggering an
    ipc_addid call that leads to uid and gid comparisons against
    uninitialized data, related to msg.c, shm.c, and util.c. (bsc#948701
    bsc#948536)
  • CVE-2015-5707: Integer overflow in the sg_start_req function in
    drivers/scsi/sg.c in the Linux kernel allowed local users to cause a
    denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact via a large
    iov_count value in a write request. (bsc#940342 bsc#940338)