The SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 SP2 kernel was updated to 4.4.74 to receive various security and bugfixes.
The following security bugs were fixed:
- CVE-2017-1000111: fix race condition in net-packet code that could be exploited to cause out-of-bounds memory access (bsc#1052365). - CVE-2017-1000112: fix race condition in net-packet code that could have been exploited by unprivileged users to gain root access. (bsc#1052311).
The following non-security bugs were fixed:
- powerpc/numa: fix regression that could cause kernel panics during installation (bsc#1048914). - bcache: force trigger gc (bsc#1038078). - bcache: only recovery I/O error for writethrough mode (bsc#1043652).