Description: SUSE has issued an update for the kernel. This fixes some vulnerabilities, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to disclose potentially sensitive information, bypass certain security restrictions, cause a DoS (Denial of Service), and gain escalated privileges, and malicious people to cause a DoS and potentially compromise a vulnerable system.
A vulnerability is caused due to missing feature length validation within the "dccp_feat_change()" function in net/dccp/feat.c, which can be exploited to cause an overflow and execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges.
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