openSUSE-SU-2013:0395-1 -- Suse kernelID: oval:org.secpod.oval:def:400504 | Date: (C)2013-03-22 (M)2024-02-19 |
Class: PATCH | Family: unix |
The Linux kernel was updated to 3.4.33 and to fix a local root privilege escalation and various other security and non-security bugs. CVE-2013-1763: A out of bounds access in sock_diag could be used by local attackers to execute code in kernel context and so become root. CVE-2013-0160: The atime of /dev/ptmx is no longer updated, avoiding side channel attacks via user typing speed. CVE-2012-5374: Denial of service via btrfs hashes could have been used by local attackers to cause a compute denial of service. CVE-2013-0216: Fixed a problem in XEN netback: shutdown the ring if it contains garbage. CVE-2013-0231: Fixed a problem in XEN pciback: rate limit error messages from xen_pcibk_enable_msi.