SUSE SLES12 Security Update : kernel (SUSE-SU-2017:0303-1)
High Nessus Plugin ID 96869
Synopsis
The remote SUSE host is missing one or more security updates.
Description
This update for the Linux Kernel 3.12.60-52_63 fixes several issues.
The following security bugs were fixed :
- CVE-2016-9806: Race condition in the netlink_dump function in net/netlink/af_netlink.c in the Linux kernel allowed local users to cause a denial of service (double free) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted application that made sendmsg system calls, leading to a free operation associated with a new dump that started earlier than anticipated (bsc#1017589).
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-12-2017-161=1
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-LTSS:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-2017-161=1
To bring your system up-to-date, use 'zypper patch'.