SUSE SLES12 Security Update : kernel (SUSE-SU-2016:1995-1)

This update for the Linux Kernel 3.12.51-5231 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 SLES12 Security Update : kernel (SUSE-SU-2016:2001-1)

This update for the Linux Kernel 3.12.55-5245 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 SLES12 Security Update : kernel (SUSE-SU-2016:2014-1)

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 SLES12 Security Update : kernel (SUSE-SU-2016:2006-1)

This update for the Linux Kernel 3.12.55-5242 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 SLES12 Security Update : kernel (SUSE-SU-2016:2002-1)

This update for the Linux Kernel 3.12.51-5234 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 SLES12 Security Update : kernel (SUSE-SU-2016:2010-1)

This update for the Linux Kernel 3.12.51-5239 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 SLES12 Security Update : kernel (SUSE-SU-2016:2005-1)

This update for the Linux Kernel 3.12.48-5227 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...

openSUSE: Security Advisory for kernel (openSUSE-SU-2016:2184-1)

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...

SUSE SLES11 Security Update : kernel (SUSE-SU-2016:1672-1)

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 SP4 kernel was updated to receive various security and bugfixes. Notable changes in this kernel : - It is now possible to mount a NFS export on the exporting host directly. The following security bugs were fixed : - CVE-2016-5244: A kernel information leak in...

openSUSE Security Update : the Linux Kernel (openSUSE-2016-1015)

The openSUSE 13.2 kernel was updated to fix various bugs and security issues. The following security bugs were fixed : - CVE-2016-1583: Prevent the usage of mmap when the lower file system does not allow it. This could have lead to local privilege escalation when ecryptfs-utils was installed and...

RHEL 7 : kernel (RHSA-2016:1657)

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...

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...

RHEL 6 : kernel (RHSA-2016:1617)

An update for kernel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.2 Advanced 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...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: kernel security update

An update for kernel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.2 Advanced 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...

RHEL 6 : kernel (RHSA-2016:1581)

An update for kernel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.4 Advanced 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...

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...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: kernel security update

An update for kernel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.4 Advanced 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...

SUSE-SU-2016:1961-1 Security update for Linux Kernel Live Patch 0 for SLE 12 SP1

This update for the Linux Kernel 3.12.49-11.1 fixes the several issues. These security issues 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...

Scientific Linux Security Update : kernel on SL6.x i386/x86_64 (20160712)

Security Fix : - A flaw was found in the way certain interfaces of the Linux kernel's Infiniband subsystem used write as bi-directional ioctl replacement, which could lead to insufficient memory security checks when being invoked using the the splice system call. A local unprivileged user on a...

CentOS 6 : kernel (CESA-2016:1406)

Updated kernel packages that fix one security issue and several bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having Important security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base scores, which give detailed severity ratings, ar...