Ubuntu 18.04 LTS : Linux kernel (AWS, GCP, KVM, OEM, Raspberry Pi 2) vulnerabilities (USN-3871-3)

The remote Ubuntu 18.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-3871-3 advisory. Wen Xu discovered that a use-after-free vulnerability existed in the ext4 filesystem implementation in the Linux kernel. An attacker could use this to...

SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 Security Update : kernel (SUSE-SU-2019:0224-1)

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 kernel was updated to receive various security and bugfixes. This update brings following features : Support for Enhanced-IBRS on new Intel CPUs fate326564 The following security bugs were fixed: CVE-2018-9568: In skclonelock of sock.c, there is a possible memory...

SUSE SLES11 Security Update : kernel (SUSE-SU-2019:13937-1)

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 SP3 kernel was updated to 3.0.101 to receive various security and bugfixes. The following security bugs were fixed : CVE-2018-9516: In hiddebugeventsread of drivers/hid/hid-debug.c, there is a possible out of bounds write due to a missing bounds check. This could lead...

SUSE SLES12 Security Update : kernel (SUSE-SU-2019:0095-1)

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 SP3 Azure kernel was updated to 4.4.162 to receive various security and bugfixes. The following security bugs were fixed : CVE-2018-18281: The mremap syscall performs TLB flushes after dropping pagetable locks. If a syscall such as ftruncate removes entries from the...

openSUSE: Security Advisory for kernel (openSUSE-SU-2018:4133-1)

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...

openSUSE: Security Advisory for kernel (openSUSE-SU-2018:4133-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the Copyright C 2018 Greenbone Networks GmbH 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-or-later This program is free software; you can...

openSUSE Security Update : the Linux Kernel (openSUSE-2018-1548)

The openSUSE Leap 15.0 kernel was updated to 4.12.14-lp150.12.28.1 to receive various security and bugfixes. The following security bugs were fixed : - CVE-2018-18281: The mremap syscall performs TLB flushes after dropping pagetable locks. If a syscall such as ftruncate removes entries from the...

Security update for the Linux Kernel (important)

The openSUSE Leap 15.0 kernel was updated to 4.12.14-lp150.12.28.1 to receive various security and bugfixes. The following security bugs were fixed: - CVE-2018-18281: The mremap syscall performs TLB flushes after dropping pagetable locks. If a syscall such as ftruncate removes entries from the...

SUSE-SU-2018:4072-1 Security update for the Linux Kernel

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 SP4 kernel was updated to receive various security and bugfixes. The following security bugs were fixed: - CVE-2018-19824: A local user could exploit a use-after-free in the ALSA driver by supplying a malicious USB Sound device with zero interfaces that is mishandled ...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-3832-1)

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-3835-1)

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 18.10 : Linux kernel (AWS) vulnerabilities (USN-3832-1)

Jann Horn discovered that the procfs file system implementation in the Linux kernel did not properly restrict the ability to inspect the kernel stack of an arbitrary task. A local attacker could use this to expose sensitive information. CVE-2018-17972 Jann Horn discovered that the mremap system...

openSUSE Security Update : the Linux Kernel (openSUSE-2018-1427)

The openSUSE Leap 42.3 kernel was updated to 4.4.162 to receive various security and bugfixes. The following security bugs were fixed : - CVE-2018-18281: The mremap syscall performs TLB flushes after dropping pagetable locks. If a syscall such as ftruncate removes entries from the pagetables of a...

openSUSE: Security Advisory for kernel (openSUSE-SU-2018:3817-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the Copyright C 2018 Greenbone Networks GmbH 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-or-later This program is free software; you can...

Security update for the Linux Kernel (important)

The openSUSE Leap 42.3 kernel was updated to 4.4.162 to receive various security and bugfixes. The following security bugs were fixed: - CVE-2018-18281: The mremap syscall performs TLB flushes after dropping pagetable locks. If a syscall such as ftruncate removes entries from the pagetables of a...

SUSE SLES11 Security Update : kernel (SUSE-SU-2018:3746-1)

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 SP4 kernel was updated to 3.0.101-108.81 to receive various security and bugfixes. The following security bugs were fixed : CVE-2018-18281: An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel, the mremap syscall performs TLB flushes after dropping pagetable locks. If a syscal...

SUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : kernel (SUSE-SU-2018:3689-1)

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 SP3 kernel was updated to 4.4.162 to receive various security and bugfixes. The following security bugs were fixed : CVE-2018-14633: A security flaw was found in the chapservercomputemd5 function in the ISCSI target code in a way an authentication request from an ISCS...

SUSE-SU-2018:3689-1 Security update for the Linux Kernel

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 SP3 kernel was updated to 4.4.162 to receive various security and bugfixes. The following security bugs were fixed: - CVE-2018-14633: A security flaw was found in the chapservercomputemd5 function in the ISCSI target code in a way an authentication request from an ISC...

CVE-2018-18281

Since Linux kernel version 3.2, the mremap syscall performs TLB flushes after dropping pagetable locks. If a syscall such as ftruncate removes entries from the pagetables of a task that is in the middle of mremap, a stale TLB entry can remain for a short time that permits access to a physical pag...

CVE-2018-18281

Since Linux kernel version 3.2, the mremap syscall performs TLB flushes after dropping pagetable locks. If a syscall such as ftruncate removes entries from the pagetables of a task that is in the middle of mremap, a stale TLB entry can remain for a short time that permits access to a physical pag...