Security update for the Linux Kernel (important)

The openSUSE Leap 15.0 kernel was updated to 4.12.14-lp150.12.28.1 to receive various security and bugfixes. The following security bugs were fixed: - CVE-2018-18281: The mremap syscall performs TLB flushes after dropping pagetable locks. If a syscall such as ftruncate removes entries from the...

Security update for the Linux Kernel (important)

The openSUSE Leap 42.3 kernel was updated to 4.4.165-81.1 to receive various bugfixes. The following non-security bugs were fixed: - 9p locks: fix glock.clientid leak in dolock bnc1012382. - 9p: clear dangling pointers in p9statfree bnc1012382. - ACPI / LPSS: Add alternative ACPI HIDs for Cherry...

openSUSE Security Update : the Linux Kernel (openSUSE-2018-1342)

The openSUSE Leap 15.0 kernel was updated to receive various security and bugfixes. The following security bugs were fixed : - CVE-2018-18710: An information leak in cdromioctlselectdisc in drivers/cdrom/cdrom.c could be used by local attackers to read kernel memory because a cast from unsigned...

Security update for the Linux Kernel (important)

The openSUSE Leap 15.0 kernel was updated to receive various security and bugfixes. The following security bugs were fixed: - CVE-2018-18710: An information leak in cdromioctlselectdisc in drivers/cdrom/cdrom.c could be used by local attackers to read kernel memory because a cast from unsigned lo...

openSUSE: Security Advisory for kernel (openSUSE-SU-2018:2242-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the Copyright C 2018 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...

Oracle Linux 6 / 7 : Unbreakable Enterprise kernel (ELSA-2018-4245)

The remote Oracle Linux 6 / 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2018-4245 advisory. - rds: CVE-2018-7492: Fix NULL pointer dereference in rdsrdmamap Hakon Bugge Orabug: 28552792 CVE-2018-7492 - cdrom: Fix info leak/OOB read in...

Oracle Linux 6 / 7 : Unbreakable Enterprise kernel (ELSA-2018-4227)

The remote Oracle Linux 6 / 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2018-4227 advisory. - nsfs: mark dentry with DCACHERCUACCESS Cong Wang Orabug: 28576290 CVE-2018-5873 - cdrom: Fix info leak/OOB read in cdromioctldrivestatus Scott...

docker: container breakout without selinux in enforcing mode

The default OCI Linux spec in oci/defaultslinux.go in Docker/Moby, from 1.11 to current, does not block /proc/acpi pathnames. The flaw allows an attacker to modify host's hardware like enabling/disabling Bluetooth or turning up/down keyboard brightness...

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS : Linux kernel (HWE) vulnerabilities (USN-3762-2)

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-3762-2 advisory. USN-3762-1 fixed vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel for Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. This update provides the corresponding updates for the Linux Hardware Enableme...

Ubuntu 18.04 LTS : Linux kernel vulnerabilities (USN-3762-1)

The remote Ubuntu 18.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-3762-1 advisory. It was discovered that the VirtIO subsystem in the Linux kernel did not properly initialize memory in some situations. A local attacker could use this to...

USN-3762-2: Linux kernel (HWE) vulnerabilities

USN-3762-1 fixed vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel for Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. This update provides the corresponding updates for the Linux Hardware Enablement HWE kernel from Ubuntu 18.04 LTS for Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. It was discovered that the VirtIO subsystem in the Linux kernel did not properly...

USN-3762-2 linux-hwe, linux-azure, linux-gcp vulnerabilities

USN-3762-1 fixed vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel for Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. This update provides the corresponding updates for the Linux Hardware Enablement HWE kernel from Ubuntu 18.04 LTS for Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. It was discovered that the VirtIO subsystem in the Linux kernel did not properly...

USN-3762-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

It was discovered that the VirtIO subsystem in the Linux kernel did not properly initialize memory in some situations. A local attacker could use this to possibly expose sensitive information kernel memory. CVE-2018-1118 Seunghun Han discovered an information leak in the ACPI handling code in the...

USN-3762-1 linux, linux-aws, linux-azure, linux-gcp, linux-kvm, linux-raspi2 vulnerabilities

It was discovered that the VirtIO subsystem in the Linux kernel did not properly initialize memory in some situations. A local attacker could use this to possibly expose sensitive information kernel memory. CVE-2018-1118 Seunghun Han discovered an information leak in the ACPI handling code in the...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-3762-2)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2018 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-3754-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Ralf Spenneberg discovered that the ext4 implementation in the Linux kernel did not properly validate meta block groups. An attacker with physical access could use this to specially craft an ext4 image that causes a denial of service system crash. CVE-2016-10208 It was discovered that an...

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : Linux kernel vulnerabilities (USN-3754-1)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-3754-1 advisory. Ralf Spenneberg discovered that the ext4 implementation in the Linux kernel did not properly validate meta block groups. An attacker with physical access...

docker: container breakout without selinux in enforcing mode

The default OCI Linux spec in oci/defaultslinux.go in Docker/Moby, from 1.11 to current, does not block /proc/acpi pathnames. The flaw allows an attacker to modify host's hardware like enabling/disabling Bluetooth or turning up/down keyboard brightness...

Unbreakable Enterprise kernel security update

kernel-uek 3.8.13-118.23.1 - xen/blkback: free requests on disconnection Dongli Zhang Orabug: 22111941 - RDS: null pointer dereference in rdsatomicfreeop Mohamed Ghannam Orabug: 27986376 CVE-2018-5333 - ACPI: sbshc: remove raw pointer from printk message Greg Kroah-Hartman Orabug: 27986392...

openSUSE Security Update : the Linux Kernel (openSUSE-2018-826)

The openSUSE Leap 15.0 kernel was updated to receive various security and bugfixes. The following security bugs were fixed : - CVE-2018-5390 aka 'SegmentSmack': A remote attacker even with relatively low bandwidth could have caused lots of CPU usage by triggering the worst case scenario during IP...