File _patchinfo of Package patchinfo.6508

<patchinfo incident="6508">
  <issue id="1069708" tracker="bnc">VUL-0: CVE-2017-16939: kernel live patch: local privilege escalation with XFRM sockets</issue>
  <issue id="1071471" tracker="bnc">VUL-0: CVE-2017-15868: kernel live patch: The bnep_add_connection function does not ensure that an l2cap socket is available, which allows local users to gain privileges</issue>
  <issue id="2017-15868" tracker="cve" />
  <issue id="2017-16939" tracker="cve" />
  <category>security</category>
  <rating>important</rating>
  <packager>mbenes</packager>
  <description>This update for the Linux Kernel 3.12.69-60_64_29 fixes several issues.

The following security issues were fixed:

- CVE-2017-15868: The bnep_add_connection function in net/bluetooth/bnep/core.c in did not ensure that an l2cap socket is available, which allowed local users to gain privileges via a crafted application (bsc#1071471).
</description>
<summary>Security update for the Linux Kernel (Live Patch 12 for SLE 12 SP1)</summary>
</patchinfo>