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VPR Score: 7.4
Synopsis
The remote SUSE host is missing one or more security updates.
Description
This Linux kernel update for SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 SP4 fixes the following issues :
- A previous security update to address CVE-2017-1000364 caused unintended side-effects in several other tools, most notably Java. These issues have been remedied.
[bsc#1045340, bsc#1045406]
Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.
Solution
To install this SUSE Security Update use YaST online_update.
Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product :
SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 11-SP4:zypper in -t patch sdksp4-kernel-source-13172=1
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11-SP4:zypper in -t patch slessp4-kernel-source-13172=1
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11-EXTRA:zypper in -t patch slexsp3-kernel-source-13172=1
SUSE Linux Enterprise Debuginfo 11-SP4:zypper in -t patch dbgsp4-kernel-source-13172=1
To bring your system up-to-date, use 'zypper patch'.