File _patchinfo of Package patchinfo.6235

<patchinfo incident="6235">
  <issue id="1069708" tracker="bnc">VUL-0: CVE-2017-16939: kernel live patch: local privilege escalation with XFRM sockets</issue>
  <issue id="2017-16939" tracker="cve" />
  <category>security</category>
  <rating>important</rating>
  <packager>mbenes</packager>
  <description>This update for the Linux Kernel 3.12.74-60_64_63 fixes one issue.

The following security issue was fixed:

- CVE-2017-16939: The XFRM dump policy implementation in net/xfrm/xfrm_user.c allowed local users to gain privileges or cause a denial of service (use-after-free) via a crafted SO_RCVBUF setsockopt system call in conjunction with XFRM_MSG_GETPOLICY Netlink messages (bsc#1069708).
</description>
<summary>Security update for the Linux Kernel (Live Patch 22 for SLE 12 SP1)</summary>
</patchinfo>