[security-announce] openSUSE-SU-2017:2169-1: important: Security update for the Linux Kernel

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openSUSE Security Update: Security update for the Linux Kernel

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2017:2169-1

Rating: important

References: #1019151 #1023175 #1037404 #1037994 #1038078

#1038792 #1043652 #1047027 #1051399 #1051556

#1052049 #1052223 #1052311 #1052365 #1052533

#1052709 #1052773 #1052794

Cross-References: CVE-2017-1000111 CVE-2017-1000112 CVE-2017-8831

 

Affected Products:

openSUSE Leap 42.2

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An update that solves three vulnerabilities and has 15

fixes is now available.

 

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 writethrough mode (bsc#1043652).

- block: do not allow updates through sysfs until registration completes

(bsc#1047027).

- ibmvnic: Check for transport event on driver resume (bsc#1051556,

bsc#1052709).

- ibmvnic: Initialize SCRQ's during login renegotiation (bsc#1052223).

- ibmvnic: Report rx buffer return codes as netdev_dbg (bsc#1052794).

- iommu/amd: Fix schedule-while-atomic BUG in initialization code

(bsc1052533).

- libnvdimm, pmem: fix a NULL pointer BUG in nd_pmem_notify (bsc#1023175).

- libnvdimm: fix badblock range handling of ARS range (bsc#1023175).

- qeth: fix L3 next-hop im xmit qeth hdr (bnc#1052773, LTC#157374).

- scsi_devinfo: fixup string compare (bsc#1037404).

- scsi_dh_alua: suppress errors from unsupported devices (bsc#1038792).

- vfs: fix missing inode_get_dev sites (bsc#1052049).

- x86/dmi: Switch dmi_remap() from ioremap() to ioremap_cache()

(bsc#1051399).

 

 

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

 

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