The openSUSE 13.2 kernel was updated to receive security and bugfixes.
It also fixes a regression that caused the Chromium sandbox to no longer work (bsc#965356).
Following security bugs were fixed:
- CVE-2016-2069: A flaw was discovered in a way the Linux deals with
paging structures. When Linux invalidates a paging structure that is
not in use locally, it could, in principle, race against another CPU
that is switching to a process that uses the paging structure in question, causing
a local denial service (machine crash). (bnc#963767).
- CVE-2016-0723: Race condition in the tty_ioctl function in
drivers/tty/tty_io.c in the Linux kernel allowed local users to obtain
sensitive information from kernel memory or cause a denial of service
(use-after-free and system crash) by making a TIOCGETD ioctl
call during processing of a TIOCSETD ioctl call (bnc#961500).
The following non-security bugs were fixed:
- Bluetooth: ath3k: workaround the compatibility issue with xHCI controller (bnc#907378).
- kABI fix for addition of user_namespace.flags field (bnc#965308, bnc#965356).
- userns: Add a knob to disable setgroups on a per user namespace basis (bnc#965308, bnc#965356).
- userns: Allow setting gid_maps without privilege when setgroups is disabled (bnc#965308, bnc#965356).
- userns: Rename id_map_mutex to userns_state_mutex (bnc#965308, bnc#965356).
- Submitted by Jeff Mahoney (jeff_mahoney)
- Reboot is suggested