Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : Linux kernel vulnerabilities (USN-2337-1)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-2337-1 advisory. A flaw was discovered in the Linux kernel virtual machine's kvm validation of interrupt requests irq. A guest OS user could exploit this flaw to cause a...

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS : linux-lts-trusty vulnerabilities (USN-2336-1)

A flaw was discovered in the Linux kernel virtual machine's kvm validation of interrupt requests irq. A guest OS user could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service host OS crash. CVE-2014-0155 Andy Lutomirski discovered a flaw in the authorization of netlink socket operations when a socket...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-2337-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2014 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-2335-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2014 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...

Fedora Update for kernel FEDORA-2014-9449

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2014 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...

Updated kernel-tmb package fixes security vulnerabilities

Updated kernel-tmb provides upstream 3.12.26 kernel and fixes the following security issues: Array index error in the aioreadeventsring function in fs/aio.c in the Linux kernel through 3.15.1 allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel memory via a large head value CVE-2014-020...

Updated kernel-linus package fixes security vulnerabilities

Updated kernel-linus provides upstream 3.10.51 kernel and fixes the following security issues: Array index error in the aioreadeventsring function in fs/aio.c in the Linux kernel through 3.15.1 allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel memory via a large head value...

MGASA-2014-0336 Updated kernel-linus package fixes security vulnerabilities

Updated kernel-linus provides upstream 3.12.26 kernel and fixes the following security issues: Array index error in the aioreadeventsring function in fs/aio.c in the Linux kernel through 3.15.1 allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel memory via a large head value...

openSUSE Security Update : kernel (openSUSE-SU-2014:0985-1)

The Linux kernel was updated to fix security issues and bugs : Security issues fixed: CVE-2014-4699: The Linux kernel on Intel processors did not properly restrict use of a non-canonical value for the saved RIP address in the case of a system call that does not use IRET, which allowed local users...

kernel: security and bugfix update (important)

The Linux kernel was updated to fix security issues and bugs: Security issues fixed: CVE-2014-4699: The Linux kernel on Intel processors did not properly restrict use of a non-canonical value for the saved RIP address in the case of a system call that does not use IRET, which allowed local users ...

openSUSE: Security Advisory for kernel (openSUSE-SU-2014:0985-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2014 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...

Fedora 19 : kernel-3.14.15-100.fc19 (2014-9142)

The 3.14.15 stable update contains a number of important fixes across the tree. The 3.14.14 stable update contains a number of important fixes across the tree. Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has...

Updated kernel packages fix security vulnerabilities

This kernel update provides the upstream 3.10.50 longterm kernel and fixes the following security issues: Array index error in the aioreadeventsring function in fs/aio.c in the Linux kernel through 3.15.1 allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel memory via a large head value...

Updated kernel packages fix security vulnerabilities

This kernel update provides the upstream 3.12.25 longterm kernel and fixes the following security issues: Array index error in the aioreadeventsring function in fs/aio.c in the Linux kernel through 3.15.1 allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel memory via a large head value...

openSUSE: Security Advisory for kernel (openSUSE-SU-2014:0957-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2014 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...

Fedora 20 : kernel-3.15.7-200.fc20 (2014-9010)

The 3.15.7 stable update contains a number of important fixes throughout the tree. Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without...

kernel: security and bugfix update (important)

The Linux Kernel was updated to fix various bugs and security issues. CVE-2014-4699: The Linux kernel on Intel processors did not properly restrict use of a non-canonical value for the saved RIP address in the case of a system call that does not use IRET, which allowed local users to leverage a...

CVE-2014-4171

mm/shmem.c in the Linux kernel through 3.15.1 does not properly implement the interaction between range notification and hole punching, which allows local users to cause a denial of service imutex hold by using the mmap system call to access a hole, as demonstrated by interfering with intended...

CVE-2014-4171

CVE-2014-4171 affects mm/shmem.c in the Linux kernel up to 3.15.1. The issue is that the interaction between range notification and hole punching is not properly implemented, allowing a local user to cause a denial of service (i_mutex hold) by using mmap to access a hole. Demonstrations in the so...

CVE-2014-4171

mm/shmem.c in the Linux kernel through 3.15.1 does not properly implement the interaction between range notification and hole punching, which allows local users to cause a denial of service imutex hold by using the mmap system call to access a hole, as demonstrated by interfering with intended...