Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: kernel security update

An update for kernel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.1 Extended Update Support. 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...

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : Linux kernel (Vivid HWE) vulnerabilities (USN-3053-1)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-3053-1 advisory. A missing permission check when settings ACLs was discovered in nfsd. A local user could exploit this flaw to gain access to any file by setting an ACL...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-3055-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2016 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-3056-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2016 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-3049-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2016 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 14.04 LTS : Linux kernel vulnerabilities (USN-3052-1)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-3052-1 advisory. It was discovered that the keyring implementation in the Linux kernel did not ensure a data structure was initialized before referencing it after an erro...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-3051-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2016 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-3052-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2016 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-3056-1: Linux kernel (Raspberry Pi 2) vulnerabilities

Ben Hawkes discovered an integer overflow in the Linux netfilter implementation. On systems running 32 bit kernels, a local unprivileged attacker could use this to cause a denial of service system crash or possibly execute arbitrary code with administrative privileges. CVE-2016-3135 It was...

USN-3054-1: Linux kernel (Xenial HWE) vulnerabilities

Ben Hawkes discovered an integer overflow in the Linux netfilter implementation. On systems running 32 bit kernels, a local unprivileged attacker could use this to cause a denial of service system crash or possibly execute arbitrary code with administrative privileges. CVE-2016-3135 It was...

USN-3050-1: Linux kernel (OMAP4) vulnerabilities

Ben Hawkes discovered that the Linux netfilter implementation did not correctly perform validation when handling IPTSOSETREPLACE events. A local unprivileged attacker could use this to cause a denial of service system crash or possibly execute arbitrary code with administrative privileges...

USN-3049-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Ben Hawkes discovered that the Linux netfilter implementation did not correctly perform validation when handling IPTSOSETREPLACE events. A local unprivileged attacker could use this to cause a denial of service system crash or possibly execute arbitrary code with administrative privileges...

SUSE-SU-2016:2014-1 Security update for Linux Kernel Live Patch 7 for SLE 12

This update for the Linux Kernel 3.12.44-5218 fixes several issues. The following security bugs were fixed: - CVE-2016-4470: The keyrejectandlink function in security/keys/key.c in the Linux kernel did not ensure that a certain data structure is initialized, which allowed local users to cause a...

SUSE-SU-2016:1999-1 Security update for Linux Kernel Live Patch 14 for SLE 12

This update for the Linux Kernel 3.12.60-5249 fixes several issues. The following security bugs were fixed: - CVE-2016-4470: The keyrejectandlink function in security/keys/key.c in the Linux kernel did not ensure that a certain data structure is initialized, which allowed local users to cause a...

SUSE-SU-2016:1998-1 Security update for Linux Kernel Live Patch 15 for SLE 12

This update for the Linux Kernel 3.12.60-5254 fixes several issues. The following security bugs were fixed: - CVE-2016-4470: The keyrejectandlink function in security/keys/key.c in the Linux kernel did not ensure that a certain data structure is initialized, which allowed local users to cause a...

OracleVM 3.4 : Unbreakable / etc (OVMSA-2016-0094)

The remote OracleVM system is missing necessary patches to address critical security updates : - KEYS: potential uninitialized variable Dan Carpenter Orabug: 24393865 CVE-2016-4470 - ovl: fix permission checking for setattr Miklos Szeredi Orabug: 24393742 CVE-2015-8660 %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenab...

OracleVM 3.3 : Unbreakable / etc (OVMSA-2016-0095)

The remote OracleVM system is missing necessary patches to address critical security updates : - KEYS: potential uninitialized variable Dan Carpenter Orabug: 24393864 CVE-2016-4470 %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The package checks in this plugin were extracted from OracleVM...

Oracle Linux 6 / 7 : Unbreakable Enterprise kernel (ELSA-2016-3591)

The remote Oracle Linux 6 / 7 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ELSA-2016-3591 advisory. kernel-uek 3.8.13-118.9.2 - KEYS: potential uninitialized variable Dan Carpenter Orabug: 24393864 CVE-2016-4470 Tenable has extracted the preceding...

CentOS Update for kernel CESA-2016:1539 centos7

Check the version of kernel SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2016 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 scriptoid"1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.882536";...

Oracle Linux 5 / 6 : Unbreakable Enterprise kernel (ELSA-2016-3592)

The remote Oracle Linux 5 / 6 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ELSA-2016-3592 advisory. 2.6.39-400.283.2 - KEYS: potential uninitialized variable Dan Carpenter Orabug: 24393863 CVE-2016-4470 Tenable has extracted the preceding description block...