SUSE SLES12 Security Update : kernel (SUSE-SU-2017:1905-1) (Stack Clash)
Medium Nessus Plugin ID 101885
Synopsis
The remote SUSE host is missing one or more security updates.
Description
This update for the Linux Kernel 3.12.60-52_57 fixes several issues.
The following security bugs were fixed :
- CVE-2017-1000364: An issue was discovered in the size of the stack guard page on Linux, specifically a 4k stack guard page is not sufficiently large and can be 'jumped' over (the stack guard page is bypassed) (bsc#1039496).
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 Server for SAP 12:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SAP-12-2017-1178=1
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-LTSS:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-2017-1178=1
To bring your system up-to-date, use 'zypper patch'.