SuSE: 2011:1100-1: important: Linux kernel
Summary
SUSE Security Update: Security update for Linux kernel
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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2011:1100-1
Rating: important
References: #588458 #603804 #632870 #642896 #649625 #650309
#667386 #669378 #688859 #694670 #699354 #699355
#699357 #701443 #701686 #704347 #706557 #707096
#707125 #707737 #708675 #708877 #709412 #711203
#711969 #712456 #712929 #713138 #713430 #714001
#714966 #715235 #715763 #716901 #719117 #719450
Cross-References: CVE-2011-2928 CVE-2011-3191 CVE-2011-3353
Affected Products:
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP1 for VMware
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP1
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Availability Extension 11 SP1
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 SP1
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An update that solves three vulnerabilities and has 33
fixes is now available. It includes one version update.
Description:
The SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 Service Pack 1 kernel was
updated to 2.6.32.46 and fixes various bugs and security
issues.
Following security issues were fixed: CVE-2011-3191: A
signedness issue in CIFS could possibly have lead to to
memory corruption, if a malicious server could send
crafted replies to the host.
CVE-2011-3353: In the fuse filesystem,
FUSE_NOTIFY_INVAL_ENTRY did not check the length of the
write so the message processing could overrun and result
in a BUG_ON() in fuse_copy_fill(). This flaw could be used
by local users able to mount FUSE filesystems to crash the
system.
CVE-2011-2928: The befs_follow_link function in
fs/befs/linuxvfs.c in the Linux kernel did not validate
the length attribute of long symlinks, which allowed local
users to cause a denial of service (incorrect pointer
dereference and OOPS) by accessing a long symlink on a
malformed Be filesystem.
Also the following non security bugs were fixed: -
CONFIG_CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR_SWAP enabled -
CONFIG_CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR_SWAP_ENABLED disabled by
default. Swap accounting can be turned on by swapaccount=1
kernel command line parameter (bnc#719450) - Make swap
accounting default behavior configurable (bnc#719450,
bnc#650309, fate#310471).
*
Added a missing reset for ioc_reset_in_progress in
SoftReset in the mtpsas driver (bnc#711969).
*
Add support for the Digi/IBM PCIe 2-port Adapter
(bnc#708675).
*
Always enable MSI-X on 5709 (bnc#707737).
*
sched: fix broken SCHED_RESET_ON_FORK handling
(bnc#708877).
*
sched: Fix rt_rq runtime leakage bug (bnc#707096).
*
ACPI: allow passing down C1 information if no other
C-states exist.
*
KDB: turn off kdb usb support by default (bnc#694670
bnc#603804).
*
xfs: Added event tracing support.
*
xfs: fix xfs_fsblock_t tracing.
*
igb: extend maximum frame size to receive VLAN tagged
frames (bnc#688859).
*
cfq: Do not allow queue merges for queues that have
no process references (bnc#712929).
* cfq: break apart merged cfqqs if they stop
cooperating (bnc#712929).
* cfq: calculate the seek_mean per cfq_queue not per
cfq_io_context (bnc#712929).
* cfq: change the meaning of the cfqq_coop flag
(bnc#712929).
* cfq-iosched: get rid of the coop_preempt flag
(bnc#712929).
*
cfq: merge cooperating cfq_queues (bnc#712929).
*
Fix FDDI and TR config checks in ipv4 arp and LLC
(bnc#715235).
*
writeback: do uninterruptible sleep in
balance_dirty_pages() (bnc#699354 bnc#699357).
* xfs: fix memory reclaim recursion deadlock on locked
inode buffer (bnc#699355 bnc#699354).
*
xfs: use GFP_NOFS for page cache allocation
(bnc#699355 bnc#699354).
*
virtio-net: init link state correctly (bnc#714966).
*
cpufreq: pcc-cpufreq: sanity check to prevent a NULL
pointer dereference (bnc#709412).
*
x86: ucode-amd: Do not warn when no ucode is
available for a CPU
*
patches.arch/x86_64-unwind-annotations: Refresh
(bnc#588458).
*
patches.suse/stack-unwind: Refresh (bnc#588458).
*
splice: direct_splice_actor() should not use pos in
sd (bnc#715763).
*
qdio: 2nd stage retry on SIGA-W busy conditions
(bnc#713138,LTC#74402).
*
TTY: pty, fix pty counting (bnc#711203).
*
Avoid deadlock in GFP_IO/GFP_FS allocation
(bnc#632870).
*
novfs: fix some DirCache locking issues (bnc#669378).
* novfs: fix some kmalloc/kfree issues (bnc#669378).
* novfs: fix off-by-one allocation error (bnc#669378).
* novfs: unlink directory after unmap (bnc#649625).
*
novfs: last modification time not reliable
(bnc#642896).
*
x86 / IO APIC: Reset IRR in clear_IO_APIC_pin()
(bnc#701686, bnc#667386).
*
mptfusion : Added check for SILI bit in READ_6 CDB
for DATA UNDERRUN ERRATA (bnc #712456).
*
xfs: serialise unaligned direct IOs (bnc#707125).
*
NFS: Ensure that we handle NFS4ERR_STALE_STATEID
correctly (bnc#701443).
* NFSv4: Do not call nfs4_state_mark_reclaim_reboot()
from error handlers (bnc#701443).
* NFSv4: Fix open recovery (bnc#701443).
* NFSv4.1: Do not call nfs4_schedule_state_recovery()
unnecessarily (bnc#701443).
Security Issues:
* CVE-2011-3191
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