critical Security update for the linux kernel

SUSE-SLE-Live-Patching-12-2017-994

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 SP2 kernel was updated to receive various security and bugfixes. The following security bugs were fixed: - CVE-2017-1000364: The default stack guard page was too small and could be "jumped over" by userland programs using more than one page of stack in functions and so lead to memory corruption. This update extends the stack guard page to 1 MB (for 4k pages) and 16 MB (for 64k pages) to reduce this attack vector. This is not a kernel bugfix, but a hardening measure against this kind of userland attack.(bsc#1039348) The following non-security bugs were fixed: - There was a load failure in the sha-mb encryption implementation (bsc#1037384).

• Release Date
  Jun 19 2017
• References
  Bugzilla: 1039348, 1037384
  CVEs: CVE-2017-1000364
• Type
  security
• Severity
  critical

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SUSE Linux Enterprise Live Patching 12 x86_64

• Packages
  kgraft-patch-4_4_59-92_20-default
  Kgraft patch module

  1-2.1 lock rpm

  kgraft-patch-SLE12-SP2_Update_8
  Kgraft patch module

  1-2.1 lock src