Security update for the Linux Kernel
Announcement ID: | SUSE-SU-2018:2177-1 |
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Rating: | important |
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An update that solves one vulnerability and has 24 security fixes can now be installed.
Description:
The SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 SP4 RT kernel was updated to receive various security and bugfixes.
The following security bugs were fixed:
- CVE-2014-3688: The SCTP implementation allowed remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) by triggering a large number of chunks in an association's output queue (bsc#902351)
The following non-security bugs were fixed:
- ALSA: hda/ca0132: fix build failure when a local macro is defined (bsc#1045538).
- ALSA: seq: Do not allow resizing pool in use (bsc#1045538).
- Delete patches.fixes/0001-ipc-shm-Fix-shmat-mmap-nil-page-protection.patch (bsc# 1090078)
- IB/mlx4: fix sprintf format warning (bnc#786036).
- RDMA/mlx4: Discard unknown SQP work requests (bnc#786036).
- USB: uss720: fix NULL-deref at probe (bnc#1047487).
- bna: integer overflow bug in debugfs (bnc#780242).
- e1000e: Ignore TSYNCRXCTL when getting I219 clock attributes (bug#923242).
- e1000e: Undo e1000e_pm_freeze if __e1000_shutdown fails (bug#909495).
- fix a leak in /proc/schedstats (bsc#1094876).
- ixgbe: Initialize 64-bit stats seqcounts (bnc#795301).
- mm: fix the NULL mapping case in __isolate_lru_page() (git-fixes).
- module/retpoline: Warn about missing retpoline in module (bnc#1099177).
- net/mlx4_core: Fix error handling in mlx4_init_port_info (bnc#786036).
- net/mlx4_en: Change default QoS settings (bnc#786036).
- net/mlx4_en: Use __force to fix a sparse warning in TX datapath (bug#925105).
- netxen: fix incorrect loop counter decrement (bnc#784815).
- powerpc: Machine check interrupt is a non-maskable interrupt (bsc#1094244).
- s390/qdio: do not merge ERROR output buffers (bnc#1099709).
- s390/qeth: do not dump control cmd twice (bnc#1099709).
- s390/qeth: fix SETIP command handling (bnc#1099709).
- s390/qeth: free netdevice when removing a card (bnc#1099709).
- s390/qeth: lock read device while queueing next buffer (bnc#1099709).
- s390/qeth: when thread completes, wake up all waiters (bnc#1099709).
- sched/sysctl: Check user input value of sysctl_sched_time_avg (bsc#1100089).
- scsi: sg: mitigate read/write abuse (bsc#1101296).
- tg3: do not clear stats while tg3_close (bnc#790588).
- video/stifb: Return -ENOMEM after a failed kzalloc() in stifb_init_fb() (bnc#1099966).
- vmxnet3: use correct flag to indicate LRO feature (bsc#936423).
- x86-32/kaiser: Add CPL check for CR3 switch before iret (bsc#1098408).
- x86-non-upstream-eager-fpu 32bit fix (bnc#1087086 bnc#1100091 bnc#1099598).
- x86/cpu/bugs: Make retpoline module warning conditional (bnc#1099177).
- xen/x86/spectre_v1: Disable compiler optimizations over array_index_mask_nospec() (bsc#1068032).
Special Instructions and Notes:
- Please reboot the system after installing this update.
Patch Instructions:
To install this SUSE update use the SUSE recommended
installation methods like YaST online_update or "zypper patch".
Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:
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SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time Extension 11 SP4
zypper in -t patch slertesp4-kernel-source-13709=1
Package List:
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SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time Extension 11 SP4 (nosrc x86_64)
- kernel-rt_trace-3.0.101.rt130-69.30.1
- kernel-rt-3.0.101.rt130-69.30.1
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SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time Extension 11 SP4 (x86_64)
- kernel-syms-rt-3.0.101.rt130-69.30.1
- kernel-rt-devel-3.0.101.rt130-69.30.1
- kernel-rt-base-3.0.101.rt130-69.30.1
- kernel-rt_trace-base-3.0.101.rt130-69.30.1
- kernel-source-rt-3.0.101.rt130-69.30.1
- kernel-rt_trace-devel-3.0.101.rt130-69.30.1
References:
- https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-3688.html
- https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1045538
- https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1047487
- https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1068032
- https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1087086
- https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1090078
- https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1094244
- https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1094876
- https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1098408
- https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1099177
- https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1099598
- https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1099709
- https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1099966
- https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1100089
- https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1100091
- https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1101296
- https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=780242
- https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=784815
- https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=786036
- https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=790588
- https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=795301
- https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=902351
- https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=909495
- https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=923242
- https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=925105
- https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=936423