SUSE Security Update: Security update for the Linux Kernel
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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2015:1224-1
Rating: important
References: #915517 #919007 #922583 #923908 #927355 #929525
#929647 #930786 #933429 #933896 #933904 #933907
#935705 #936831
Affected Products:
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11-SP3-TERADATA
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An update that contains security fixes can now be installed.

Description:

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 SP3 Teradata kernel was updated to fix the
following bugs and security issues.

The following security issues have been fixed:

– Update patches.fixes/udp-fix-behavior-of-wrong-checksums.patch
(bsc#936831, CVE-2015-5364, CVE-2015-5366).
– Btrfs: make xattr replace operations atomic (bnc#923908, CVE-2014-9710).
– udp: fix behavior of wrong checksums (bsc#936831, CVE-2015-5364,
CVE-2015-5366).
– vfs: read file_handle only once in handle_to_path (bsc#915517,
CVE-2015-1420).
– x86: bpf_jit: fix compilation of large bpf programs
(bnc#935705,CVE-2015-4700).
– udf: Check length of extended attributes and allocation (bsc#936831,
CVE-2015-5364, CVE-2015-5366).
– Update patches.fixes/udf-Check-component-length-before-reading-it.patch
(bsc#933904, CVE-2014-9728, CVE-2014-9730).
– Update patches.fixes/udf-Verify-i_size-when-loading-inode.patch
(bsc#933904, CVE-2014-9728, CVE-2014-9729).
– Update patches.fixes/udf-Verify-symlink-size-before-loading-it.patch
(bsc#933904, CVE-2014-9728).
– Update patches.fixes/udf-Check-path-length-when-reading-symlink.patch
(bnc#933896, CVE-2014-9731).
– pipe: fix iov overrun for failed atomic copy (bsc#933429, CVE-2015-1805).
– ipv6: Don’t reduce hop limit for an interface (bsc#922583,
CVE-2015-2922).
– net: llc: use correct size for sysctl timeout entries (bsc#919007,
CVE-2015-2041).
– ipv4: Missing sk_nulls_node_init() in ping_unhash() (bsc#929525,
CVE-2015-3636).
– ipv6: Don’t reduce hop limit for an interface (bsc#922583,
CVE-2015-2922).
– net: llc: use correct size for sysctl timeout entries (bsc#919007,
CVE-2015-2041).
– ipv4: Missing sk_nulls_node_init() in ping_unhash() (bsc#929525,
CVE-2015-3636).

The following non-security issues have been fixed:

– mlx4: Check for assigned VFs before disabling SR-IOV (bsc#927355).
– ixgbe: Use pci_vfs_assigned instead of ixgbe_vfs_are_assigned
(bsc#927355).
– pci: Add SRIOV helper function to determine if VFs are assigned to guest
(bsc#927355).
– net/mlx4_core: Don’t disable SRIOV if there are active VFs (bsc#927355).
– udf: Remove repeated loads blocksize (bsc#933907).
– Refresh patches.fixes/deal-with-deadlock-in-d_walk-fix.patch. based on
3.2 stable fix 20defcec264c (“dcache: Fix locking bugs in backported
“deal with deadlock in d_walk()””). Not harmfull for regular SLES
kernels but RT or PREEMPT kernels would see disbalance.
– sched: Fix potential near-infinite distribute_cfs_runtime() loop
(bnc#930786)
– tty: Correct tty buffer flush (bnc#929647).
– tty: hold lock across tty buffer finding and buffer filling (bnc#929647).

Patch Instructions:

To install this SUSE Security Update use YaST online_update.
Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

– SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11-SP3-TERADATA:

zypper in -t patch slessp3-kernel-201507-2=1

To bring your system up-to-date, use “zypper patch”.

Package List:

– SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11-SP3-TERADATA (x86_64):

kernel-default-3.0.101-57.TDC.2
kernel-default-base-3.0.101-57.TDC.2
kernel-default-devel-3.0.101-57.TDC.2
kernel-source-3.0.101-57.TDC.2
kernel-syms-3.0.101-57.TDC.2
kernel-trace-3.0.101-57.TDC.2
kernel-trace-base-3.0.101-57.TDC.2
kernel-trace-devel-3.0.101-57.TDC.2
kernel-xen-3.0.101-57.TDC.2
kernel-xen-base-3.0.101-57.TDC.2
kernel-xen-devel-3.0.101-57.TDC.2

References:

https://bugzilla.suse.com/915517
https://bugzilla.suse.com/919007
https://bugzilla.suse.com/922583
https://bugzilla.suse.com/923908
https://bugzilla.suse.com/927355
https://bugzilla.suse.com/929525
https://bugzilla.suse.com/929647
https://bugzilla.suse.com/930786
https://bugzilla.suse.com/933429
https://bugzilla.suse.com/933896
https://bugzilla.suse.com/933904
https://bugzilla.suse.com/933907
https://bugzilla.suse.com/935705
https://bugzilla.suse.com/936831

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