Please Install the Updated Packages.

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 CVE-2013-0160: The atime of /dev/ptmx is no longer updated, avoiding side channel attacks via user typing speed.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(x).

kernel on openSUSE 12.2

• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-03/msg00004.html

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Updated on 2015-03-25