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HistoryAug 11, 2017 - 6:07 a.m.

Security update for the Linux Kernel (important)

2017-08-1106:07:36
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The SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 SP2 kernel was updated to 4.4.74 to receive
various security and bugfixes.

The following security bugs were fixed:

  • CVE-2017-1000111: fix race condition in net-packet code that could be
    exploited to cause out-of-bounds memory access (bsc#1052365).
  • CVE-2017-1000112: fix race condition in net-packet code that could have
    been exploited by unprivileged users to gain root access. (bsc#1052311).

The following non-security bugs were fixed:

  • powerpc/numa: fix regression that could cause kernel panics during
    installation (bsc#1048914).
  • bcache: force trigger gc (bsc#1038078).
  • bcache: only recovery I/O error for writethrough mode (bsc#1043652).