Scientific Linux Security Update : kernel on SL7.x x86_64 (20161024) (Dirty COW)

Security Fixes : - A race condition was found in the way the Linux kernel's memory subsystem handled the copy-on-write COW breakage of private read-only memory mappings. An unprivileged, local user could use this flaw to gain write access to otherwise read-only memory mappings and thus increase...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: kernel security update

An update for kernel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. 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 each vulnerability from th...

Exploit for Race Condition in Canonical Ubuntu_Linux

cowroot Universal Android root tool based on CVE-2016-5195. Wa...

SUSE-SU-2016:2614-1 Security update for the Linux Kernel

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 SP3 LTSS kernel was updated to fix one security issue. This security bug was fixed: - CVE-2016-5195: Local privilege escalation using MAPPRIVATE. It is reportedly exploited in the wild bsc1004418...

kernel security update

3.10.0-327.36.3.OL7 - Oracle Linux certificates Alexey Petrenko 3.10.0-327.36.3 - mm remove gupflags FOLLWRITE games from getuserpages Alexander Gordeev 1385123 1385124 CVE-2016-5195...

openSUSE Security Update : the Linux Kernel (openSUSE-2016-1212) (Dirty COW)

The openSUSE Leap 42.1 kernel was updated to 4.1.34, fixing bugs and security issues. The following security bugs were fixed : - CVE-2016-5195: A local privilege escalation using MAPPRIVATE was fixed, which is reportedly exploited in the wild bsc1004418. - CVE-2016-8658: Stack-based buffer overfl...

RHEL 7 : kernel (RHSA-2016:2098)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2016:2098 advisory. The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system. Security Fixes: A race condition was found in the way the Linux...

OracleVM 3.3 : Unbreakable / etc (OVMSA-2016-0150) (Dirty COW)

The remote OracleVM system is missing necessary patches to address critical security updates : - mm, gup: close FOLL MAPPRIVATE race Linus Torvalds Orabug: 24928591 CVE-2016-5195 %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The package checks in this plugin were extracted from OracleVM...

Fedora 23 : kernel (2016-c3558808cd) (Dirty COW)

The 4.7.9 stable update contains a number of important fixes across the tree. In particular, it includes a fix for CVE-2016-5195. Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system website. Tenable has attempted to automatically...

Oracle Linux 5 / 6 : Unbreakable Enterprise kernel (ELSA-2016-3634)

The remote Oracle Linux 5 / 6 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ELSA-2016-3634 advisory. 2.6.39-400.286.3 - mm, gup: close FOLL MAPPRIVATE race Linus Torvalds Orabug: 24928646 CVE-2016-5195 Tenable has extracted the preceding description block...

Fedora 24 : kernel (2016-db4b75b352) (Dirty COW)

The 4.7.9 stable update contains a number of important fixes across the tree. In particular, it includes a fix for CVE-2016-5195. ---- The 4.7.8 update contains a number of important fixes across the tree. Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly...

Oracle Linux 6 / 7 : Unbreakable Enterprise kernel (ELSA-2016-3633)

The remote Oracle Linux 6 / 7 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ELSA-2016-3633 advisory. kernel-uek 3.8.13-118.13.3 - mm, gup: close FOLL MAPPRIVATE race Linus Torvalds Orabug: 24928591 CVE-2016-5195 Tenable has extracted the preceding descripti...

[ASA-201610-16] linux-grsec: privilege escalation

Arch Linux Security Advisory ASA-201610-16 ========================================== Severity: High Date : 2016-10-24 CVE-ID : CVE-2016-5195 Package : linux-grsec Type : privilege escalation Remote : No Link : https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/CVE Summary ======= The package linux-grsec befor...

Exploit for Race Condition in Canonical Ubuntu_Linux

Description: ============ dcow is a possible exploit of the vul...

Unbreakable Enterprise kernel security update

2.6.39-400.286.3 - mm, gup: close FOLL MAPPRIVATE race Linus Torvalds Orabug: 24928646 CVE-2016-5195...

openSUSE: Security Advisory for kernel (openSUSE-SU-2016:2584-1)

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...

openSUSE: Security Advisory for kernel (openSUSE-SU-2016:2583-1)

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...

[ASA-201610-14] linux: privilege escalation

Arch Linux Security Advisory ASA-201610-14 ========================================== Severity: High Date : 2016-10-22 CVE-ID : CVE-2016-5195 Package : linux Type : privilege escalation Remote : No Link : https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/CVE Summary ======= The package linux before version...

SUSE-SU-2016:2596-1 Security update for the Linux Kernel

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 SP2 LTSS kernel was updated to fix one security issue. This security bug was fixed: - CVE-2016-5195: Local privilege escalation using MAPPRIVATE. It is reportedly exploited in the wild bsc1004418...

Security update for the Linux Kernel (important)

The openSUSE 13.1 kernel was updated to fix bugs and security issues. The following security bugs were fixed: - CVE-2016-8666: The IP stack in the Linux kernel allowed remote attackers to cause a denial of service stack consumption and panic or possibly have unspecified other impact by triggering...