Security update for Linux Kernel Live Patch 7
Announcement ID: | SUSE-SU-2015:2086-1 |
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Rating: | important |
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An update that solves two vulnerabilities and has two security fixes can now be installed.
Description:
This kernel live patch for Linux Kernel 3.12.44-52.18.1 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)
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 Live Patching 12
zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Live-Patching-12-2015-889=1 SUSE-SLE-Live-Patching-12-2015-888=1 SUSE-SLE-Live-Patching-12-2015-884=1 SUSE-SLE-Live-Patching-12-2015-883=1 SUSE-SLE-Live-Patching-12-2015-886=1 SUSE-SLE-Live-Patching-12-2015-885=1 SUSE-SLE-Live-Patching-12-2015-887=1
Package List:
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SUSE Linux Enterprise Live Patching 12 (x86_64)
- kgraft-patch-3_12_43-52_6-xen-3-2.1
- kgraft-patch-3_12_36-38-xen-4-2.3
- kgraft-patch-3_12_36-38-default-4-2.3
- kgraft-patch-3_12_32-33-default-4-2.3
- kgraft-patch-3_12_44-52_10-xen-2-2.1
- kgraft-patch-3_12_44-52_18-default-2-4.1
- kgraft-patch-3_12_38-44-default-3-2.1
- kgraft-patch-3_12_39-47-xen-3-2.1
- kgraft-patch-3_12_39-47-default-3-2.1
- kgraft-patch-3_12_43-52_6-default-3-2.1
- kgraft-patch-3_12_32-33-xen-4-2.3
- kgraft-patch-3_12_44-52_10-default-2-2.1
- kgraft-patch-3_12_44-52_18-xen-2-4.1
- kgraft-patch-3_12_38-44-xen-3-2.1
References:
- https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-5707.html
- https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-7613.html
- https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=940338
- https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=940342
- https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=948536
- https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=948701