openSUSE Security Update: Security update for the Linux Kernel
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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2017:0002-1
Rating: important
References: #1013038 #1014943
Cross-References: CVE-2016-9756
Affected Products:
openSUSE Leap 42.1
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An update that solves one vulnerability and has one errata
is now available.

Description:

The openSUSE 42.1 kernel was updated to receive various security and
bugfixes.

The following security bugs were fixed:

– CVE-2016-9756: KVM: x86: drop error recovery in em_jmp_far and
em_ret_far (bsc#1013038).

The following non-security bugs were fixed:

– scsi: megaraid_sas: fix macro MEGASAS_IS_LOGICAL to avoid regression
(bsc#1014943).

Patch Instructions:

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

– openSUSE Leap 42.1:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2017-1=1

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

Package List:

– openSUSE Leap 42.1 (i586 x86_64):

kernel-default-4.1.36-44.1
kernel-default-base-4.1.36-44.1
kernel-default-base-debuginfo-4.1.36-44.1
kernel-default-debuginfo-4.1.36-44.1
kernel-default-debugsource-4.1.36-44.1
kernel-default-devel-4.1.36-44.1
kernel-obs-build-4.1.36-44.3
kernel-obs-build-debugsource-4.1.36-44.3
kernel-obs-qa-4.1.36-44.1
kernel-syms-4.1.36-44.1

– openSUSE Leap 42.1 (i686 x86_64):

kernel-debug-4.1.36-44.1
kernel-debug-base-4.1.36-44.1
kernel-debug-base-debuginfo-4.1.36-44.1
kernel-debug-debuginfo-4.1.36-44.1
kernel-debug-debugsource-4.1.36-44.1
kernel-debug-devel-4.1.36-44.1
kernel-debug-devel-debuginfo-4.1.36-44.1
kernel-ec2-4.1.36-44.1
kernel-ec2-base-4.1.36-44.1
kernel-ec2-base-debuginfo-4.1.36-44.1
kernel-ec2-debuginfo-4.1.36-44.1
kernel-ec2-debugsource-4.1.36-44.1
kernel-ec2-devel-4.1.36-44.1
kernel-pv-4.1.36-44.1
kernel-pv-base-4.1.36-44.1
kernel-pv-base-debuginfo-4.1.36-44.1
kernel-pv-debuginfo-4.1.36-44.1
kernel-pv-debugsource-4.1.36-44.1
kernel-pv-devel-4.1.36-44.1
kernel-vanilla-4.1.36-44.1
kernel-vanilla-debuginfo-4.1.36-44.1
kernel-vanilla-debugsource-4.1.36-44.1
kernel-vanilla-devel-4.1.36-44.1
kernel-xen-4.1.36-44.1
kernel-xen-base-4.1.36-44.1
kernel-xen-base-debuginfo-4.1.36-44.1
kernel-xen-debuginfo-4.1.36-44.1
kernel-xen-debugsource-4.1.36-44.1
kernel-xen-devel-4.1.36-44.1

– openSUSE Leap 42.1 (noarch):

kernel-devel-4.1.36-44.1
kernel-docs-4.1.36-44.2
kernel-docs-html-4.1.36-44.2
kernel-docs-pdf-4.1.36-44.2
kernel-macros-4.1.36-44.1
kernel-source-4.1.36-44.1
kernel-source-vanilla-4.1.36-44.1

– openSUSE Leap 42.1 (i686):

kernel-pae-4.1.36-44.1
kernel-pae-base-4.1.36-44.1
kernel-pae-base-debuginfo-4.1.36-44.1
kernel-pae-debuginfo-4.1.36-44.1
kernel-pae-debugsource-4.1.36-44.1
kernel-pae-devel-4.1.36-44.1

References:

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-9756.html
https://bugzilla.suse.com/1013038
https://bugzilla.suse.com/1014943

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