This update for the Linux Kernel 3.12.67-60_64_24 fixes several issues. The following security bugs were fixed :

  - CVE-2017-7533: A bug in inotify code allowed local users     to escalate privilege (bsc#1050751).

  - CVE-2017-7645: The NFSv2/NFSv3 server in the nfsd     subsystem in the Linux kernel allowed remote attackers     to cause a denial of service (system crash) via a long     RPC reply, related to net/sunrpc/svc.c,     fs/nfsd/nfs3xdr.c, and fs/nfsd/nfsxdr.c (bsc#1046191).

  - CVE-2017-2636: Race condition in drivers/tty/n_hdlc.c in     the Linux kernel allowed local users to gain privileges     or cause a denial of service (double free) by setting     the HDLC line discipline (bsc#1027575).

  - CVE-2017-9242: The __ip6_append_data function in     net/ipv6/ip6_output.c in the Linux kernel is too late in     checking whether an overwrite of an skb data structure     may occur, which allowed local users to cause a denial     of service (system crash) via crafted system calls     (bsc#1042892).

  - CVE-2017-8890: The inet_csk_clone_lock function in     net/ipv4/inet_connection_sock.c in the Linux kernel     allowed attackers to cause a denial of service (double     free) or possibly have unspecified other impact by     leveraging use of the accept system call (bsc#1038564).

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.

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