Yet Another Linux Kernel Privilege-Escalation Bug Discovered

Security researchers have discovered a new privilege-escalation vulnerability in Linux kernel that could allow a local attacker to execute code on the affected systems with elevated privileges. Discovered by Venustech ADLab Active-Defense Lab researchers, the Linux kernel vulnerability...

CVE-2017-15265

Race condition in the ALSA subsystem in the Linux kernel before 4.13.8 allows local users to cause a denial of service use-after-free or possibly have unspecified other impact via crafted /dev/snd/seq ioctl calls, related to sound/core/seq/seqclientmgr.c and sound/core/seq/seqports.c...

Linux Kernel Memory Misreference Vulnerability (CNVD-2017-30251)

The Linux kernel is a computer operating system kernel written in C and assembly language, compliant with the POSIX standard, and distributed under the GNU General Public License. A local elevation vulnerability exists in the Linux Kernel, which allows a local user to run a specially crafted...

Security update for MozillaThunderbird (important)

Mozilla Thunderbird was updated to 52.4.0 boo1060445 new behavior was introduced for replies to mailing list posts: "When replying to a mailing list, reply will be sent to address in From header ignoring Reply-to header". A new preference mail.overridelistreplyto allows to restore the previous...

Security update for MozillaThunderbird (important)

Mozilla Thunderbird was updated to 52.4.0 boo1060445 new behavior was introduced for replies to mailing list posts: "When replying to a mailing list, reply will be sent to address in From header ignoring Reply-to header". A new preference mail.overridelistreplyto allows to restore the previous...

openSUSE Security Update : MozillaThunderbird (openSUSE-2017-1144)

Mozilla Thunderbird was updated to 52.4.0 boo1060445 - new behavior was introduced for replies to mailing list posts: 'When replying to a mailing list, reply will be sent to address in From header ignoring Reply-to header'. A new preference mail.overridelistreplyto allows to restore the previous...

OPENSUSE-SU-2017:2710-1 Security update for MozillaThunderbird

Mozilla Thunderbird was updated to 52.4.0 boo1060445 new behavior was introduced for replies to mailing list posts: 'When replying to a mailing list, reply will be sent to address in From header ignoring Reply-to header'. A new preference mail.overridelistreplyto allows to restore the previous...

Security update for the Linux Kernel (important)

The openSUSE Leap 42.3 kernel was updated to 4.4.87 to receive various security and bugfixes. The following security bugs were fixed: - CVE-2017-1000251: The native Bluetooth stack in the Linux Kernel BlueZ was vulnerable to a stack overflow vulnerability in the processing of L2CAP configuration...

openSUSE Security Update : the Linux Kernel (openSUSE-2017-1017)

The openSUSE Leap 42.3 kernel was updated to 4.4.85 to receive various security and bugfixes. The following security bugs were fixed : - CVE-2017-14051: An integer overflow in the qla2x00sysfswriteoptromctl function in drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qlaattr.c in the Linux kernel allowed local users to caus...

Security update for the Linux Kernel (important)

The openSUSE Leap 42.3 kernel was updated to 4.4.85 to receive various security and bugfixes. The following security bugs were fixed: - CVE-2017-14051: An integer overflow in the qla2x00sysfswriteoptromctl function in drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qlaattr.c in the Linux kernel allowed local users to cause...

MGASA-2017-0259 Updated kernel-tmb packages fixes security and other bugs

This kernel-tmb update is based on upstream 4.9.40 and fixes at least the following security issues: Linux kernel built with the VirtIO GPU driverCONFIGDRMVIRTIOGPU support is vulnerable to a memory leakage issue. It could occur while creating a virtio gpu object in virtiogpuobjectcreate. A...

Updated kernel-tmb packages fixes security and other bugs

This kernel-tmb update is based on upstream 4.9.40 and fixes at least the following security issues: Linux kernel built with the VirtIO GPU driverCONFIGDRMVIRTIOGPU support is vulnerable to a memory leakage issue. It could occur while creating a virtio gpu object in virtiogpuobjectcreate. A...

openSUSE Security Update : the Linux Kernel (openSUSE-2017-890)

The openSUSE Leap 42.3 kernel was updated to 4.4.79 to receive various security and bugfixes. The following security bugs were fixed : - CVE-2017-7542: The ip6find1stfragopt function in net/ipv6/outputcore.c in the Linux kernel allowed local users to cause a denial of service integer overflow and...

openSUSE Security Update : the Linux Kernel (openSUSE-2017-891)

The openSUSE Leap 42.2 kernel was updated to 4.4.79 to receive various security and bugfixes. The following security bugs were fixed : - CVE-2017-7542: The ip6find1stfragopt function in net/ipv6/outputcore.c in the Linux kernel allowed local users to cause a denial of service integer overflow and...

Security update for the Linux Kernel (important)

The openSUSE Leap 42.3 kernel was updated to 4.4.79 to receive various security and bugfixes. The following security bugs were fixed: - CVE-2017-7542: The ip6find1stfragopt function in net/ipv6/outputcore.c in the Linux kernel allowed local users to cause a denial of service integer overflow and...

Security update for the Linux Kernel (important)

The openSUSE Leap 42.2 kernel was updated to 4.4.79 to receive various security and bugfixes. The following security bugs were fixed: - CVE-2017-7542: The ip6find1stfragopt function in net/ipv6/outputcore.c in the Linux kernel allowed local users to cause a denial of service integer overflow and...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-3371-1)

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...

Oracle Linux 6 / 7 : Unbreakable Enterprise kernel (ELSA-2017-3595)

The remote Oracle Linux 6 / 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2017-3595 advisory. - ALSA: timer: Fix missing queue indices reset at SNDRVTIMERIOCTLSELECT Takashi Iwai Orabug: 26403952 CVE-2017-1000380 - ALSA: timer: Fix race...

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS : Linux kernel (HWE) kernel vulnerabilities (USN-3371-1)

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-3371-1 advisory. It was discovered that the Linux kernel did not properly initialize a Wake- on-Lan data structure. A local attacker could use this to expose sensitive...

USN-3371-1 linux-hwe vulnerabilities

It was discovered that the Linux kernel did not properly initialize a Wake- on-Lan data structure. A local attacker could use this to expose sensitive information kernel memory. CVE-2014-9900 Alexander Potapenko discovered a race condition in the Advanced Linux Sound Architecture ALSA subsystem i...