USN-2971-2: Linux kernel (Wily HWE) vulnerabilities

USN-2971-1 fixed vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel for Ubuntu 15.10. This update provides the corresponding updates for the Linux Hardware Enablement HWE kernel from Ubuntu 15.10 for Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. Ralf Spenneberg discovered that the Aiptek Tablet USB device driver in the Linux kernel did no...

USN-2970-1: Linux kernel (Vivid HWE) vulnerabilities

Ralf Spenneberg discovered that the Aiptek Tablet USB device driver in the Linux kernel did not properly validate the endpoints reported by the device. An attacker with physical access could cause a denial of service system crash. CVE-2015-7515 Ben Hawkes discovered that the Linux kernel's AIO...

USN-2965-2: Linux kernel (Xenial HWE) vulnerabilities

USN-2965-1 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. Jann Horn discovered that the extended Berkeley Packet Filter eBPF implementation in t...

openSUSE Security Update : the Linux Kernel (openSUSE-2016-518)

The openSUSE 13.1 kernel was updated to 3.12.57 to receive various security and bugfixes. The following security bugs were fixed : - CVE-2015-8785: The fusefillwritepages function in fs/fuse/file.c in the Linux kernel allowed local users to cause a denial of service infinite loop via a writev...

CVE-2016-2184

The createfixedstreamquirk function in sound/usb/quirks.c in the snd-usb-audio driver in the Linux kernel before 4.5.1 allows physically proximate attackers to cause a denial of service NULL pointer dereference or double free, and system crash via a crafted endpoints value in a USB device...

CVE-2016-2184

The createfixedstreamquirk function in sound/usb/quirks.c in the snd-usb-audio driver in the Linux kernel before 4.5.1 allows physically proximate attackers to cause a denial of service NULL pointer dereference or double free, and system crash via a crafted endpoints value in a USB device...

BELL-CVE-2016-2184 CVE-2016-2184 does not affect BellSoft software

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CVE-2016-2184

CVE-2016-2184 affects the Linux kernel snd-usb-audio driver (pre-4.5.1). The vulnerability stems from create_fixed_stream_quirk in sound/usb/quirks.c, which allows a physically proximate attacker to trigger a denial of service via a crafted endpoints value in a USB device descriptor. Consequences...

Fedora 22 : kernel-4.4.6-201.fc22 (2016-ed5110c4bb)

This is an incremental update with a series of bugzilla fixes Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional...

openSUSE Security Update : the Linux Kernel (openSUSE-2016-445)

The openSUSE Leap 42.1 kernel was updated to 4.1.20 to receive various security and bugfixes. The following security bugs were fixed : - CVE-2015-1339: A memory leak in cuse could be used to exhaust kernel memory. bsc969356. - CVE-2015-7799: The slhcinit function in drivers/net/slip/slhc.c in the...

Fedora 23 : kernel-4.4.6-301.fc23 (2016-7e602c0e5e)

This is an incremental update for a set of bugzillas in the kernel Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing...

Security update for the Linux Kernel (important)

The openSUSE Leap 42.1 kernel was updated to 4.1.20 to receive various security and bugfixes. The following security bugs were fixed: - CVE-2015-1339: A memory leak in cuse could be used to exhaust kernel memory. bsc969356. - CVE-2015-7799: The slhcinit function in drivers/net/slip/slhc.c in the...