openSUSE: 2017:2169-1: important: the Linux Kernel
Description
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 writethro...
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Patch
Patch Instructions: To install this openSUSE Security Update use YaST online_update. Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product: - openSUSE Leap 42.2: zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2017-929=1 To bring your system up-to-date, use "zypper patch".
Package List
- openSUSE Leap 42.2 (x86_64): kernel-debug-4.4.79-18.26.2 kernel-debug-base-4.4.79-18.26.2 kernel-debug-base-debuginfo-4.4.79-18.26.2 kernel-debug-debuginfo-4.4.79-18.26.2 kernel-debug-debugsource-4.4.79-18.26.2 kernel-debug-devel-4.4.79-18.26.2 kernel-debug-devel-debuginfo-4.4.79-18.26.2 kernel-default-4.4.79-18.26.2 kernel-default-base-4.4.79-18.26.2 kernel-default-base-debuginfo-4.4.79-18.26.2 kernel-default-debuginfo-4.4.79-18.26.2 kernel-default-debugsource-4.4.79-18.26.2 kernel-default-devel-4.4.79-18.26.2 kernel-obs-build-4.4.79-18.26.2 kernel-obs-build-debugsource-4.4.79-18.26.2 kernel-obs-qa-4.4.79-18.26.1 kernel-syms-4.4.79-18.26.1 kernel-vanilla-4.4.79-18.26.2 kernel-vanilla-base-4.4.79-18.26.2 kernel-vanilla-base-debuginfo-4.4.79-18.26.2 kernel-vanilla-debuginfo-4.4.79-18.26.2 kernel-vanilla-debugsource-4.4.79-18.26.2 kernel-vanilla-devel-4.4.79-18.26.2 - openSUSE Leap 42.2 (noarch): kernel-devel-4.4.79-18.26.1 kernel-docs-4.4.79-18.26.3 kernel-docs-html-4.4.79-18.26.3 kernel-docs-pdf-4.4.79-18.26.3 kernel-macros-4.4.79-18.26.1 kernel-source-4.4.79-18.26.1 kernel-source-vanilla-4.4.79-18.26.1
References
https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-1000111.html https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-1000112.html https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-8831.html https://bugzilla.suse.com/1019151 https://bugzilla.suse.com/1023175 https://bugzilla.suse.com/1037404 https://bugzilla.suse.com/1037994 https://bugzilla.suse.com/1038078 https://bugzilla.suse.com/1038792 https://bugzilla.suse.com/1043652 https://bugzilla.suse.com/1047027 https://bugzilla.suse.com/1051399 https://bugzilla.suse.com/1051556 https://bugzilla.suse.com/1052049 https://bugzilla.suse.com/1052223 https://bugzilla.suse.com/1052311 https://bugzilla.suse.com/1052365 https://bugzilla.suse.com/1052533 https://bugzilla.suse.com/1052709 https://bugzilla.suse.com/1052773 https://bugzilla.suse.com/1052794--