USN-2683-1 linux-lts-vivid vulnerabilities

A flaw was discovered in the kvm kernel virtual machine subsystem's kvmapichasevents function. A unprivileged local user could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service system crash. CVE-2015-4692 Daniel Borkmann reported a kernel crash in the Linux kernel's BPF filter JIT optimization. A...

USN-2683-1: Linux kernel (Vivid HWE) vulnerabilities

A flaw was discovered in the kvm kernel virtual machine subsystem's kvmapichasevents function. A unprivileged local user could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service system crash. CVE-2015-4692 Daniel Borkmann reported a kernel crash in the Linux kernel's BPF filter JIT optimization. A...

USN-2681-1 linux vulnerabilities

A flaw was discovered in the user space memory copying for the pipe iovecs in the Linux kernel. An unprivileged local user could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service system crash or potentially escalate their privileges. CVE-2015-1805 A flaw was discovered in the kvm kernel virtual...

USN-2679-1: Linux kernel (OMAP4) vulnerabilities

A flaw was discovered in the user space memory copying for the pipe iovecs in the Linux kernel. An unprivileged local user could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service system crash or potentially escalate their privileges. CVE-2015-1805 Daniel Borkmann reported a kernel crash in the Linux...

USN-2678-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

A flaw was discovered in the user space memory copying for the pipe iovecs in the Linux kernel. An unprivileged local user could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service system crash or potentially escalate their privileges. CVE-2015-1805 Daniel Borkmann reported a kernel crash in the Linux...

Linux Kernel '/arch/x86/net/bpf_jit_comp.c' Local Denial of Service Vulnerability

The Linux kernel is the kernel used by the operating system Linux, released by the Linux Foundation in the United States. A denial of service vulnerability exists in the Linux kernel. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to crash an application and deny service to legitimate users...

Ubuntu 14.10 : linux vulnerabilities (USN-2666-1)

A race condition was discovered in the Linux kernel's filehandle size verification. A local user could exploit this flaw to read potentially sensative memory locations. CVE-2015-1420 A underflow error was discovered in the Linux kernel's Ozmo Devices USB over WiFi host controller driver. A remote...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-2666-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2015 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 14.04 LTS : Linux kernel (Utopic HWE) vulnerabilities (USN-2664-1)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-2664-1 advisory. A race condition was discovered in the Linux kernel's filehandle size verification. A local user could exploit this flaw to read potentially sensative...

USN-2666-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

A race condition was discovered in the Linux kernel's filehandle size verification. A local user could exploit this flaw to read potentially sensative memory locations. CVE-2015-1420 A underflow error was discovered in the Linux kernel's Ozmo Devices USB over WiFi host controller driver. A remote...

USN-2664-1: Linux kernel (Utopic HWE) vulnerabilities

A race condition was discovered in the Linux kernel's filehandle size verification. A local user could exploit this flaw to read potentially sensative memory locations. CVE-2015-1420 A underflow error was discovered in the Linux kernel's Ozmo Devices USB over WiFi host controller driver. A remote...

CVE-2015-4700

The bpfintjitcompile function in arch/x86/net/bpfjitcomp.c in the Linux kernel before 4.0.6 allows local users to cause a denial of service system crash by creating a packet filter and then loading crafted BPF instructions that trigger late convergence by the JIT compiler...

PT-2015-6674

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Linux kernel versions prior to 4.0.6 Description The issue allows local users to cause a denial of service, resulting in a system crash. This is achieved by creating a packet filter and loading crafted BPF instructions that trigger late...

SUSE SLES11 Security Update : kernel (SUSE-SU-2014:1138-1)

The SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP1 LTSS received a roll up update to fix several security and non-security issues. The following security issues have been fixed : - CVE-2013-1860: Heap-based buffer overflow in the wdmincallback function in drivers/usb/class/cdc-wdm.c in the Linux kernel befo...

kernel, perf, python security update

CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-2014:0981 Updated kernel packages that fix multiple security issues, several bugs, and add one enhancement are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having Important security impact. Commo...

Kernel: filter: prevent nla extensions to peek beyond the end of the message

The BPFSANCNLATTRNEST extension implementation in the skrunfilter function in net/core/filter.c in the Linux kernel through 3.14.3 uses the reverse order in a certain subtraction, which allows local users to cause a denial of service over-read and system crash via crafted BPF instructions. NOTE:...

USN-2286-1: Linux kernel (Raring HWE) vulnerabilities

Sasha Levin reported a flaw in the Linux kernel's point-to-point protocol PPP when used with the Layer Two Tunneling Protocol L2TP. A local user could exploit this flaw to gain administrative privileges. CVE-2014-4943 Michael S. Tsirkin discovered an information leak in the Linux kernel's...

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS : linux-lts-raring vulnerabilities (USN-2286-1)

Sasha Levin reported a flaw in the Linux kernel's point-to-point protocol PPP when used with the Layer Two Tunneling Protocol L2TP. A local user could exploit this flaw to gain administrative privileges. CVE-2014-4943 Michael S. Tsirkin discovered an information leak in the Linux kernel's...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-2262-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2014 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 12.04 LTS : linux-lts-quantal vulnerabilities (USN-2262-1)

A bounds check error was discovered in the socket filter subsystem of the Linux kernel. A local user could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service system crash via crafted BPF instructions. CVE-2014-3144 A remainder calculation error was discovered in the socket filter subsystem of the Lin...