Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2015-8952

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available. - The mbcache feature in the ext2 and ext4 filesystem implementations in the Linux kernel before 4.6 mishandles xattr block caching, which allows local users to...

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS : Linux kernel vulnerabilities (USN-3582-1)

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-3582-1 advisory. Mohamed Ghannam discovered that the IPv4 raw socket implementation in the Linux kernel contained a race condition leading to uninitialized pointer usage....

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-3582-2)

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-3582-1)

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...

OracleVM 3.4 : Unbreakable / etc (OVMSA-2017-0056)

The remote OracleVM system is missing necessary patches to address critical security updates : - Revert 'x86/mm: Expand the exception table logic to allow new handling options' Brian Maly Orabug: 25790387 CVE-2016-9644 - Revert 'fix minor infoleak in getuserex' Brian Maly Orabug: 25790387...

CVE-2015-8952

The mbcache feature in the ext2 and ext4 filesystem implementations in the Linux kernel before 4.6 mishandles xattr block caching, which allows local users to cause a denial of service soft lockup via filesystem operations in environments that use many attributes, as demonstrated by Ceph and Samb...

DEBIAN-CVE-2015-8952

The mbcache feature in the ext2 and ext4 filesystem implementations in the Linux kernel before 4.6 mishandles xattr block caching, which allows local users to cause a denial of service soft lockup via filesystem operations in environments that use many attributes, as demonstrated by Ceph and Samb...

CVE-2015-8952

CVE-2015-8952 : The mbcache feature in the Linux kernel’s ext2/ext4 implementations mishandles xattr block caching, enabling a local attacker to cause a denial of service (soft lockup) in environments with many attributes (as demonstrated by Ceph and Samba). The vulnerability is present in kernel...

CVE-2015-8952

A design flaw was found in the file extended attribute handling of the Linux kernel's handling of cached attributes. Too many entries in the cache cause a soft lockup while attempting to iterate the cache and access relevant locks...