SUSE SLES12 Security Update : kernel (SUSE-SU-2017:2920-1) (KRACK) (Stack Clash)

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 GA LTS kernel was updated to receive various security and bugfixes. The following security bugs were fixed : - CVE-2017-15649: net/packet/afpacket.c in the Linux kernel allowed local users to gain privileges via crafted system calls that trigger mishandling of...

openSUSE Security Update : gcc48 (openSUSE-2017-1223)

This update for gcc48 fixes the following issues : Security issues fixed : - A new option -fstack-clash-protection is now offered, which mitigates the stack clash type of attacks. bnc1039513 Future maintenance releases of packages will be built with this option. - CVE-2017-11671: Fixed...

GLSA-201709-19 : Exim: Local privilege escalation (Stack Clash)

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-201709-19 Exim: Local privilege escalation Exim supports the use of multiple -p command line arguments causing a memory leak. This could lead to a stack-clash in user-space and as result the attacker can, clash or smash the stack ...

Exim: Local privilege escalation

Background Exim is a message transfer agent MTA developed at the University of Cambridge for use on Unix systems connected to the Internet. Description Exim supports the use of multiple “-p” command line arguments causing a memory leak. This could lead to a stack-clash in user-space and as result...

OracleVM 3.3 : Unbreakable / etc (OVMSA-2017-0152) (BlueBorne) (Stack Clash)

The remote OracleVM system is missing necessary patches to address critical security updates : - Bluetooth: Properly check L2CAP config option output buffer length Ben Seri Orabug: 26796364 CVE-2017-1000251 - xen: fix bio vec merging Roger Pau Monne Orabug: 26645550 CVE-2017-12134 - fs/exec.c:...

Debian DSA-3981-1 : linux - security update (BlueBorne) (Stack Clash)

Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Linux kernel that may lead to privilege escalation, denial of service or information leaks. - CVE-2017-7518 Andy Lutomirski discovered that KVM is prone to an incorrect debug exception DB error occurring while emulating a syscall instruction. A...

SUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : gcc48 (SUSE-SU-2017:2526-1)

This update for gcc48 fixes the following issues: Security issues fixed : - A new option -fstack-clash-protection is now offered, which mitigates the stack clash type of attacks. bnc1039513 Future maintenance releases of packages will be built with this option. - CVE-2017-11671: Fixed rdrand/rdse...

SUSE SLES11 Security Update : kernel (SUSE-SU-2017:2525-1) (Stack Clash)

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 SP3 LTSS kernel was updated receive various security and bugfixes. The following security bugs were fixed : - CVE-2016-5243: The tipcnlcompatlinkdump function in net/tipc/netlinkcompat.c in the Linux kernel did not properly copy a certain string, which allowed local...

SUSE-SU-2017:2526-1 Security update for gcc48

This update for gcc48 fixes the following issues: Security issues fixed: - A new option -fstack-clash-protection is now offered, which mitigates the stack clash type of attacks. bnc1039513 Future maintenance releases of packages will be built with this option. - CVE-2017-11671: Fixed rdrand/rdsee...

SUSE SLES11 Security Update : kernel (SUSE-SU-2017:2389-1) (Stack Clash)

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 SP4 kernel was updated to receive various security and bugfixes. The following security bugs were fixed : - CVE-2017-7482: Several missing length checks ticket decode allowing for information leak or potentially code execution bsc1046107. - CVE-2016-10277: Potential...

SUSE-SU-2017:2380-1 Security update for gcc48

This update for gcc48 fixes the following issues: Security issues fixed: - A new option -fstack-clash-protection is now offered, which mitigates the stack clash type of attacks. bnc1039513 - CVE-2017-11671: Fixed rdrand/rdseed code generation issue bsc1050947 Bugs fixed: - Enable LFS support in...

Fedora 26 : exim (2017-f5177f3a16) (Stack Clash)

This is an update fixing multiple memory leaks and other problems. Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system website. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing...

OracleVM 3.4 : Unbreakable / etc (OVMSA-2017-0145) (Stack Clash)

The remote OracleVM system is missing necessary patches to address critical security updates : please see Oracle VM Security Advisory OVMSA-2017-0145 for details. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The package checks in this plugin were extracted from OracleVM Security Advisory...

openSUSE Security Update : fossil (openSUSE-2017-949)

This update for fossil to version 2.3 fixes the following issues : - Potential XSS vulnerability on the /help webpage boo1053267 This update also contains all upstream improvements and fixes in version 2.3 : - Update internal Unicode character tables, used in regular expression handling, from...

MGASA-2017-0261 Updated kernel-tmb packages fixes security and other bugs

This kernel-tmb update is based on upstream 4.4.79 and fixes at least the following security issues: Linux kernel built with the VirtIO GPU driverCONFIGDRMVIRTIOGPU support is vulnerable to a memory leakage issue. It could occur while creating a virtio gpu object in virtiogpuobjectcreate. A...

MGASA-2017-0259 Updated kernel-tmb packages fixes security and other bugs

This kernel-tmb update is based on upstream 4.9.40 and fixes at least the following security issues: Linux kernel built with the VirtIO GPU driverCONFIGDRMVIRTIOGPU support is vulnerable to a memory leakage issue. It could occur while creating a virtio gpu object in virtiogpuobjectcreate. A...

Updated kernel-tmb packages fixes security and other bugs

This kernel-tmb update is based on upstream 4.9.40 and fixes at least the following security issues: Linux kernel built with the VirtIO GPU driverCONFIGDRMVIRTIOGPU support is vulnerable to a memory leakage issue. It could occur while creating a virtio gpu object in virtiogpuobjectcreate. A...

MGASA-2017-0258 Updated kernel-linus packages fixes security and other bugs

This kernel-linus update is based on upstream 4.9.40 and fixes at least the following security issues: Linux kernel built with the VirtIO GPU driverCONFIGDRMVIRTIOGPU support is vulnerable to a memory leakage issue. It could occur while creating a virtio gpu object in virtiogpuobjectcreate. A...

Updated kernel-tmb packages fixes security and other bugs

This kernel-tmb update is based on upstream 4.4.79 and fixes at least the following security issues: Linux kernel built with the VirtIO GPU driverCONFIGDRMVIRTIOGPU support is vulnerable to a memory leakage issue. It could occur while creating a virtio gpu object in virtiogpuobjectcreate. A...

Updated kernel-linus packages fixes security and other bugs

This kernel-linus update is based on upstream 4.4.79 and fixes at least the following security issues: Linux kernel built with the VirtIO GPU driverCONFIGDRMVIRTIOGPU support is vulnerable to a memory leakage issue. It could occur while creating a virtio gpu object in virtiogpuobjectcreate. A...