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<patchinfo incident="7281">
  <issue id="1088268" tracker="bnc">VUL-0: CVE-2017-0861: kernel live patch: Use-after-free in snd_pcm_info function in ALSA subsystem potentially leads to privilege escalation</issue>
  <issue id="1090036" tracker="bnc">VUL-0: CVE-2018-1000199: kernel live patching: ptrace() bug leading to DoS or possibly corruption</issue>
  <issue id="2017-0861" tracker="cve" />
  <issue id="2018-1000199" tracker="cve" />
  <category>security</category>
  <rating>important</rating>
  <packager>mbenes</packager>
  <description>This update for the Linux Kernel 3.12.74-60_64_60 fixes several issues.

The following security issues were fixed:

- CVE-2018-1000199: A bug in x86 debug register handling of ptrace() could lead to memory corruption, possibly a denial of service or privilege escalation (bsc#1090036). 
- CVE-2017-0861: Use-after-free vulnerability in the snd_pcm_info function in the ALSA subsystem in the Linux kernel allowed attackers to gain privileges via unspecified vectors (bsc#1088268).
</description>
<summary>Security update for the Linux Kernel (Live Patch 21 for SLE 12 SP1)</summary>
</patchinfo>

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