SUSE-RU-2016:0496-1

Vulnerability from csaf_suse - Published: 2016-02-17 16:38 - Updated: 2026-09-20 11:57
Summary
Recommended update for certification-sles-eal4
Severity
Low
Notes
Title of the patch: Recommended update for certification-sles-eal4
Description of the patch: The EAL4 Configuration Guide has been updated to version 1.14, covering the recently released glibc patches to fix CVE-2015-7547.
Patchnames: SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-2016-282
Terms of use: CSAF 2.0 data is provided by SUSE under the Creative Commons License 4.0 with Attribution (CC-BY-4.0).
CVE-2015-7547
8.1 (High)
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Affected products
Product Identifier Version Remediation
Unresolved product id: SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 12:certification-sles-eal4-0:12.0-0.16.1.noarch —
Vendor Fix
Unresolved product id: SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12:certification-sles-eal4-0:12.0-0.16.1.noarch —
Vendor Fix
Unresolved product id: SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12:certification-sles-eal4-0:12.0-0.16.1.noarch —
Vendor Fix
Threats
Impact important
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