A cure for the common cold call: freeze them out

The phone rings and it's a number I don’t recognize. That’s enough to bring my mood down a few degrees. It shouldn’t, but unfortunately experience has taught me that at least 95 percent of the calls from numbers that are “private” or that I don’t have an account name stored for on my phone are...

The vulnerability of the Samba networking communication package lies in the lack of input data validation, which allows attackers to trigger a service failure.

The vulnerability of the Samba networking communication package is related to the lack of input data validation during RPC spoolss calls if RPC spoolss is configured to run as an external daemon. Exploiting this vulnerability allows a malicious actor to cause a failure in the print queue manager’...

hw: cpu: speculative execution bounds-check bypass

An industry-wide issue was found in the way many modern microprocessor designs have implemented speculative execution of instructions a commonly used performance optimization. There are three primary variants of the issue which differ in the way the speculative execution can be exploited. Variant...

CVE-2017-17279

The soundtrigger module in Huawei Mate 9 Pro smart phones with software of the versions before LON-AL00B 8.0.0.343C00 has an authentication bypass vulnerability due to the improper design of the module. An attacker tricks a user into installing a malicious application, and the application can...

DEBIAN-CVE-2017-18221

The munlockpagevec function in mm/mlock.c in the Linux kernel before 4.11.4 allows local users to cause a denial of service NRMLOCK accounting corruption via crafted use of mlockall and munlockall system calls...

Design/Logic Flaw

The resvmaprelease function in mm/hugetlb.c in the Linux kernel through 4.15.7 allows local users to cause a denial of service BUG via a crafted application that makes mmap system calls and has a large pgoff argument to the remapfilepages system call...

CVE-2017-18221

The munlockpagevec function in mm/mlock.c in the Linux kernel before 4.11.4 allows local users to cause a denial of service NRMLOCK accounting corruption via crafted use of mlockall and munlockall system calls...

CVE-2018-7740

The resvmaprelease function in mm/hugetlb.c in the Linux kernel through 4.15.7 allows local users to cause a denial of service BUG via a crafted application that makes mmap system calls and has a large pgoff argument to the remapfilepages system call...

CVE-2017-18221

The munlockpagevec function in mm/mlock.c in the Linux kernel before 4.11.4 allows local users to cause a denial of service NRMLOCK accounting corruption via crafted use of mlockall and munlockall system calls...

CVE-2018-7740

CVE-2018-7740 affects the Linux kernel, where the resv_map_release function in mm/hugetlb.c up to version 4.15.7 is vulnerable. A local attacker can cause a denial of service by crafting an app that uses mmap and a large pgoff with remap_file_pages, triggering a BUG. The connected Nessus reports ...

CVE-2018-7740

The resvmaprelease function in mm/hugetlb.c in the Linux kernel through 4.15.7 allows local users to cause a denial of service BUG via a crafted application that makes mmap system calls and has a large pgoff argument to the remapfilepages system call...

KLA11204 Multiple vulnerabilities in Google Chrome

Multiple serious vulnerabilities have been found in Google Chrome. Malicious users can exploit these vulnerabilities possibly to cause denial of service or spoof user interface. Below is a complete list of vulnerabilities: 1. Incorrect processing of AppMenifests can be exploited remotely to perfo...

SUSE-SU-2018:0597-1 Security update for the Linux Kernel (Live Patch 2 for SLE 12 SP3)

This update for the Linux Kernel 4.4.82-66 fixes one issue. The following security issue was fixed: - CVE-2017-18075: crypto/pcrypt.c in the Linux kernel mishandled freeing instances, allowing a local user able to access the AFALG-based AEAD interface CONFIGCRYPTOUSERAPIAEAD and pcrypt...

SUSE-SU-2018:0592-1 Security update for the Linux Kernel (Live Patch 4 for SLE 12 SP3)

This update for the Linux Kernel 4.4.90-612 fixes several issues. The following security issue was fixed: - CVE-2017-18075: crypto/pcrypt.c in the Linux kernel mishandled freeing instances, allowing a local user able to access the AFALG-based AEAD interface CONFIGCRYPTOUSERAPIAEAD and pcrypt...

SUSE-SU-2018:0596-1 Security update for the Linux Kernel (Live Patch 5 for SLE 12 SP3)

This update for the Linux Kernel 4.4.92-630 fixes several issues. The following security issue was fixed: - CVE-2017-18075: crypto/pcrypt.c in the Linux kernel mishandled freeing instances, allowing a local user able to access the AFALG-based AEAD interface CONFIGCRYPTOUSERAPIAEAD and pcrypt...

SUSE-SU-2018:0593-1 Security update for the Linux Kernel (Live Patch 7 for SLE 12 SP3)

This update for the Linux Kernel 4.4.103-638 fixes one issue. The following security issue was fixed: - CVE-2017-18075: crypto/pcrypt.c in the Linux kernel mishandled freeing instances, allowing a local user able to access the AFALG-based AEAD interface CONFIGCRYPTOUSERAPIAEAD and pcrypt...

F5 Networks BIG-IP : Linux kernel vulnerability (K11023978)

Race condition in net/packet/afpacket.c in the Linux kernel before 4.9.13 allows local users to cause a denial of service use-after-free or possibly have unspecified other impact via a multithreaded application that makes PACKETFANOUT setsockopt system calls. CVE-2017-6346 %NASLMINLEVEL 999999 C...

SUSE-SU-2018:0572-1 Security update for the Linux Kernel (Live Patch 14 for SLE 12 SP2)

This update for the Linux Kernel 4.4.90-9245 fixes several issues. The following security issue was fixed: - CVE-2017-18075: crypto/pcrypt.c in the Linux kernel mishandled freeing instances, allowing a local user able to access the AFALG-based AEAD interface CONFIGCRYPTOUSERAPIAEAD and pcrypt...

SUSE-SU-2018:0578-1 Security update for the Linux Kernel (Live Patch 16 for SLE 12 SP2)

This update for the Linux Kernel 4.4.103-9253 fixes several issues. The following security issue was fixed: - CVE-2017-18075: crypto/pcrypt.c in the Linux kernel mishandled freeing instances, allowing a local user able to access the AFALG-based AEAD interface CONFIGCRYPTOUSERAPIAEAD and pcrypt...

SUSE-SU-2018:0584-1 Security update for the Linux Kernel (Live Patch 11 for SLE 12 SP2)

This update for the Linux Kernel 4.4.74-9232 fixes several issues. The following security issue was fixed: - CVE-2017-18075: crypto/pcrypt.c in the Linux kernel mishandled freeing instances, allowing a local user able to access the AFALG-based AEAD interface CONFIGCRYPTOUSERAPIAEAD and pcrypt...