Advisories » MGASA-2017-0258

Updated kernel-linus packages fixes security and other bugs

Publication date: 13 Aug 2017
Modification date: 17 Feb 2022
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases : 6
CVE: CVE-2017-10810

Description

This kernel-linus update is based on upstream 4.9.40 and fixes at least the
following security issues:

Linux kernel built with the VirtIO GPU driver(CONFIG_DRM_VIRTIO_GPU) support
is vulnerable to a memory leakage issue. It could occur while creating a
virtio gpu object in virtio_gpu_object_create(). A user/process could use
this flaw to leak host kernel memory potentially resulting in Dos
(CVE-2017-10810).

It also contains followup fixes to the Stack Clash (CVE-2017-1000370,
CVE-2017-1000371) security issues resolved in kernels released at end
of June, 2017.

Other Mageia kernel specific fixes in this updates:
- enable support for NFS4_1 and NFS4_2 (mga#21182)

For other upstream fixes in this update, read the referenced changelogs.
                

References

• https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=21388
• https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/ChangeLog-4.9.36
• https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/ChangeLog-4.9.37
• https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/ChangeLog-4.9.38
• https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/ChangeLog-4.9.39
• https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/ChangeLog-4.9.40
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-10810

SRPMS

6/core

• kernel-linus-4.9.40-1.mga6