kernel, perf, python security update

CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-2017:1842 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...

Oracle Linux 7 : kernel (ELSA-2017-1842-1) (Stack Clash)

The remote Oracle Linux host is missing a security update for the kernel packages. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The package checks in this plugin were extracted from Oracle Linux Security Advisory ELSA-2017-1842-1. if NASLLEVEL 3000 exit0; include'deprecatednasllevel.inc';...

RedHat Update for kernel RHSA-2017:1842-01

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2017 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...

RHEL 7 : kernel (RHSA-2017:1842)

"The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2017:1842 advisory. The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system. Security Fixes: An use-after-free flaw was found in t...

SUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : kernel (SUSE-SU-2017:1360-1)

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 SP1 kernel was updated to 3.12.74 to receive various security and bugfixes. Notable new/improved features : - Improved support for Hyper-V - Support for the tcpwestwood TCP scheduling algorithm The following security bugs were fixed : - CVE-2017-8106: The handleinvept...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-3291-3)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2017 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-3291-3: Linux kernel (Xenial HWE) vulnerabilities

USN-3291-1 fixed vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel for Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. This update provides the corresponding updates for the Linux Hardware Enablement HWE kernel from Ubuntu 16.04 LTS for Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. Dmitry Vyukov discovered that the generic SCSI sg subsystem in the Linux kernel...

USN-3291-2: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

USN-3291-1 fixed vulnerabilities in the generic Linux kernel. This update provides the corresponding updates for the Linux kernel built for specific processors and cloud environments. Dmitry Vyukov discovered that the generic SCSI sg subsystem in the Linux kernel contained a stack-based buffer...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-3291-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2017 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 17.04 : linux, linux-raspi2 vulnerabilities (USN-3293-1)

Dmitry Vyukov discovered that KVM implementation in the Linux kernel improperly emulated the VMXON instruction. A local attacker in a guest OS could use this to cause a denial of service memory consumption in the host OS. CVE-2017-2596 Dmitry Vyukov discovered that the generic SCSI sg subsystem i...

SUSE SLES11 Security Update : kernel (SUSE-SU-2017:1301-1)

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 SP4 kernel was updated to receive various security and bugfixes. Notable new features : - Toleration of newer crypto hardware for z Systems - USB 2.0 Link power management for Haswell-ULT The following security bugs were fixed : - CVE-2017-7308: The packetsetring...

Security update for the Linux Kernel (important)

The openSUSE Leap 42.1 kernel was updated to receive various security and bugfixes. The following security bugs were fixed: - CVE-2017-7618: crypto/ahash.c in the Linux kernel allowed attackers to cause a denial of service API operation calling its own callback, and infinite recursion by triggeri...

openSUSE Security Update : the Linux Kernel (openSUSE-2017-532)

The openSUSE Leap 42.2 kernel was updated to 4.4.62 to receive various security and bugfixes. The following security bugs were fixed : - CVE-2017-7618: crypto/ahash.c in the Linux kernel allowed attackers to cause a denial of service API operation calling its own callback, and infinite recursion ...

openSUSE: Security Advisory for kernel (openSUSE-SU-2017:1140-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the Copyright C 2017 Greenbone Networks GmbH 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-or-later This program is free software; you can...

Debian DLA-922-1 : linux security update

Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Linux kernel that may lead to a privilege escalation, denial of service or have other impacts. CVE-2016-2188 Ralf Spenneberg of OpenSource Security reported that the iowarrior device driver did not sufficiently validate USB descriptors. This...

[SECURITY] [DLA 922-1] linux security update

Package : linux Version : 3.2.88-1 CVE ID : CVE-2016-2188 CVE-2016-9604 CVE-2016-10200 CVE-2017-2647 CVE-2017-2671 CVE-2017-5967 CVE-2017-5970 CVE-2017-6951 CVE-2017-7184 CVE-2017-7261 CVE-2017-7273 CVE-2017-7294 CVE-2017-7308 CVE-2017-7472 CVE-2017-7616 CVE-2017-7618 Several vulnerabilities have...

Fedora Update for kernel FEDORA-2017-26c9ecd7a4

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2017 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 24 : kernel (2017-8e7549fb91)

The 4.10.10 stable kernel 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 update system website. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible...

Fedora 25 : kernel (2017-26c9ecd7a4)

The 4.10.10 stable kernel 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 update system website. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible...

CVE-2017-7616

Incorrect error handling in the setmempolicy and mbind compat syscalls in 'mm/mempolicy.c' in the Linux kernel allows local users to obtain sensitive information from uninitialized stack data by triggering failure of a certain bitmap operation...