Security update for the Linux Kernel (important)

The openSUSE Leap 15.0 kernel was updated to receive various security and bugfixes. The following security bugs were fixed: - CVE-2018-18710: An information leak in cdromioctlselectdisc in drivers/cdrom/cdrom.c could be used by local attackers to read kernel memory because a cast from unsigned lo...

SUSE-SU-2018:3589-1 Security update for the Linux Kernel

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 kernel was updated to receive various security and bugfixes. The following security bugs were fixed: - CVE-2018-18445: A faulty computation of numeric bounds in the BPF verifier permits out-of-bounds memory accesses because adjustscalarminmaxvals in...

Debian DSA-4188-1 : linux - security update (Spectre)

Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Linux kernel that may lead to a privilege escalation, denial of service or information leaks. - CVE-2017-5715 Multiple researchers have discovered a vulnerability in various processors supporting speculative execution, enabling an attacker...

CVE-2017-18224

In the Linux kernel before 4.15, fs/ocfs2/aops.c omits use of a semaphore and consequently has a race condition for access to the extent tree during read operations in DIRECT mode, which allows local users to cause a denial of service BUG by modifying a certain ecpos field...

CVE-2017-18224

CVE-2017-18224 : The Linux kernel before 4.15 contains a race condition in the ocfs2 extent-tree path. Specifically, in fs/ocfs2/aops.c, a semaphore is omitted during read operations in DIRECT mode, enabling a local attacker to trigger a denial of service by modifying the e_cpos field. The connec...