Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : Linux kernel (Xenial HWE) vulnerabilities (USN-3821-2)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-3821-2 advisory. USN-3821-1 fixed vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel for Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. This update provides the corresponding updates for the Linux Hardware Enableme...

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : Linux kernel vulnerabilities (USN-3822-1)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-3822-1 advisory. Jim Mattson discovered that the KVM implementation in the Linux kernel mismanages the BP and OF exceptions. A local attacker in a guest virtual machine...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-3822-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2018 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-3821-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2018 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

USN-3822-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Jim Mattson discovered that the KVM implementation in the Linux kernel mismanages the BP and OF exceptions. A local attacker in a guest virtual machine could use this to cause a denial of service guest OS crash. CVE-2016-9588 It was discovered that the generic SCSI driver in the Linux kernel did...

USN-3821-2: Linux kernel (Xenial HWE) vulnerabilities

USN-3821-1 fixed vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel for Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. This update provides the corresponding updates for the Linux Hardware Enablement HWE kernel from Ubuntu 16.04 LTS for Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. Wen Xu discovered that the ext4 filesystem implementation in the Linux kernel did not...

USN-3821-2 linux-lts-xenial, linux-aws vulnerabilities

USN-3821-1 fixed vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel for Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. This update provides the corresponding updates for the Linux Hardware Enablement HWE kernel from Ubuntu 16.04 LTS for Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. Wen Xu discovered that the ext4 filesystem implementation in the Linux kernel did not...

USN-3821-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Wen Xu discovered that the ext4 filesystem implementation in the Linux kernel did not properly ensure that xattr information remained in inode bodies. An attacker could use this to construct a malicious ext4 image that, when mounted, could cause a denial of service system crash. CVE-2018-10880 It...

USN-3821-1 linux, linux-aws, linux-kvm, linux-raspi2, linux-snapdragon vulnerabilities

Wen Xu discovered that the ext4 filesystem implementation in the Linux kernel did not properly ensure that xattr information remained in inode bodies. An attacker could use this to construct a malicious ext4 image that, when mounted, could cause a denial of service system crash. CVE-2018-10880 It...

Oracle Linux 7 : Unbreakable Enterprise kernel (ELSA-2018-4270)

The remote Oracle Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2018-4270 advisory. - scsi: sg: mitigate read/write abuse Jann Horn Orabug: 28824731 CVE-2017-13168 - infiniband: fix a possible use-after-free bug Cong Wang Orabug:...

Oracle Linux 6 : spice-server (ELSA-2018-3522)

The remote Oracle Linux 6 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ELSA-2018-3522 advisory. - Prevent potential buffer/integer overflows with invalid MonitorsConfig messages sent from an authenticated client Resolves: CVE-2017-7506 Tenable has extracte...

Amazon Linux 2 : kernel (ALAS-2018-1100)

An issue was discovered in the procpidstack function in fs/proc/base.c in the Linux kernel. An attacker with a local account can trick the stack unwinder code to leak stack contents to userspace. The fix allows only root to inspect the kernel stack of an arbitrary task.CVE-2018-17972 A...

Unbreakable Enterprise kernel security update

4.14.35-1818.4.5 - x86/intel/spectrev2: Remove unnecessary retpcompiler test Boris Ostrovsky Orabug: 28814574 - x86/intel/spectrev4: Deprecate specstorebypassdisable=userspace Boris Ostrovsky Orabug: 28814574 - x86/speculation: x86specctrlset needs to be called unconditionally Boris Ostrovsky...

Amazon Linux AMI : kernel (ALAS-2018-1100)

An issue was discovered in the procpidstack function in fs/proc/base.c in the Linux kernel. An attacker with a local account can trick the stack unwinder code to leak stack contents to userspace. The fix allows only root to inspect the kernel stack of an arbitrary task.CVE-2018-17972 A...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: spice-server security update

An update for spice-server is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability...

Important: kernel

Issue Overview: An issue was discovered in the procpidstack function in fs/proc/base.c in the Linux kernel. An attacker with a local account can trick the stack unwinder code to leak stack contents to userspace. The fix allows only root to inspect the kernel stack of an arbitrary...

RHEL 7 : qemu-kvm-ma (RHSA-2018:3062)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2018:3062 advisory. Kernel-based Virtual Machine KVM is a full virtualization solution for Linux on a variety of architectures. The qemu-kvm-ma packages provide the...

RHEL 7 : qemu-kvm (RHSA-2018:3423)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2018:3423 advisory. Kernel-based Virtual Machine KVM is a full virtualization solution for Linux on a variety of architectures. The qemu-kvm packages provide the...

RHEL 6 : qemu-kvm (RHSA-2018:3424)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 6 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2018:3424 advisory. Kernel-based Virtual Machine KVM is a full virtualization solution for Linux on a variety of architectures. The qemu-kvm packages provide the...

RHEL 6 : qemu-kvm (RHSA-2018:3401)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 6 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2018:3401 advisory. Kernel-based Virtual Machine KVM is a full virtualization solution for Linux on a variety of architectures. The qemu-kvm packages provide the...