kernel: Update to fix various bugs and security issues
This kernel update fixes various bugs and security issues.
For bugfixes,
- a lot of BTRFS bugs were fixed
- a performance issue with transparent huge pages was fixed which could have caused huge slowdowns when doing I/O over e.g. USB sticks.
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Submitted by
Jeff Mahoney (jeff_mahoney)
- Reboot is suggested
Fixed bugs
bnc#750106
Recent system update results in Error inserting lirc_serial : Device or resource busy and kernel panic.
bnc#718918
kernel BUG at fs/bio.c:416 or drivers/scsi/scsi_lib.c:988 -- btrfs
CVE-CVE-2012-1090
** RESERVED ** This candidate has been reserved by an organization or individual that will use it when announcing a new security problem. When the candidate has been publicized, the details for this candidate will be provided.
bnc#749569
VUL-1: CVE-2012-1090: kernel: cifs: dentry refcount leak when opening a FIFO on lookup leads to panic on unmount
bnc#746695
modprobe samsung-laptop -> FATAL: Error inserting samsung_laptop
bnc#719416
writing to usb flashdisk uses too much cpu and makes system unresponsive
bnc#731387
kernel 3.1 warning in virtualbox4.1.2 enviroment
CVE-CVE-2012-1097
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bnc#750079
VUL-0: CVE-2012-1097: kernel: null pointer dereference on readonly regsets
bnc#726600
VUL-1: kernel: xfs: potential buffer overflow in xfs_readlink()
bnc#747404
Partner-entered description: System stop on "Formatting partition" when install SLES11 SP2 RC2 x64 on Win8 hyper-v with VHDX virtual harddisk
CVE-CVE-2011-4077
Buffer overflow in the xfs_readlink function in fs/xfs/xfs_vnodeops.c in XFS in the Linux kernel 2.6, when CONFIG_XFS_DEBUG is disabled, allows local users to cause a denial of service (memory corruption and crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via
bnc#741128
Mic setting in alsamixer causing noise on VT1708S (Intel HDA)
CVE-CVE-2011-4086
** RESERVED ** This candidate has been reserved by an organization or individual that will use it when announcing a new security problem. When the candidate has been publicized, the details for this candidate will be provided.
bnc#745832
VUL-1: CVE-2011-4086: kernel: jbd2: unmapped buffer with _Unwritten or _Delay flags set can lead to DoS
bnc#755812
vmxnet3: small udp frames are dropped
bnc#722350
hald-addon-stor seems to trigger kernel bug
CVE-CVE-2011-1083
The epoll implementation in the Linux kernel 2.6.37.2 and earlier does not properly traverse a tree of epoll file descriptors, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via a crafted application that makes epoll_create and ep
bnc#729247
kernel oops from drbd
bnc#676204
VUL-1: kernel: epoll DoS via large nested struct
bnc#749651
[SLES11 SP2] Kernel BUG at fs/btrfs/ctree.h:2297 (using fsfuzzer image)
bnc#746980
[Intel BUG] igb: Fix for Alt MAC Address feature on 82580 and later devices
bnc#732908
Access to hd or filesystem broken after suspend2disk / resume
bnc#731590
hp compaq nx7010 kernel panic in realtek wired driver.
bnc#738397
Sound doesnt work after suspending to RAM
bnc#744658
kernel BUG at /usr/src/packages/BUILD/kernel-xen-3.0.13/linux-3.0/fs/sysfs/group.c:65!
CVE-CVE-2012-1146
** RESERVED ** This candidate has been reserved by an organization or individual that will use it when announcing a new security problem. When the candidate has been publicized, the details for this candidate will be provided.
bnc#750959
VUL-0: kernel: mm: memcg: unregistring of events attached to the same eventfd can lead to oops
bnc#721739
Brightness control does only work in dark ranges
