Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS : Firefox vulnerabilities (USN-3044-1)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-3044-1 advisory. Gustavo Grieco discovered an out-of-bounds read during XML parsing in some circumstances. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially...

RHEL 7 : kernel (RHSA-2016:0103)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2016:0103 advisory. The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system. It was found that the x86 ISA Instruction Set...

[SECURITY] Fedora 22 Update: conntrack-tools-1.4.2-9.fc22

With conntrack-tools you can setup a High Availability cluster and synchronize conntrack state between multiple firewalls. The conntrack-tools package contains two programs: - conntrack: the command line interface to interact with the connection tracking system. - conntrackd: the connection...

SUSE: Security Advisory for kernel (SUSE-SU-2015:0529-1)

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...

Scientific Linux Security Update : kernel on SL7.x x86_64 (20150805)

An integer overflow flaw was found in the way the Linux kernel's netfilter connection tracking implementation loaded extensions. An attacker on a local network could potentially send a sequence of specially crafted packets that would initiate the loading of a large number of extensions, causing t...

kernel: netfilter connection tracking extensions denial of service

An integer overflow flaw was found in the way the Linux kernel's netfilter connection tracking implementation loaded extensions. An attacker on a local network could potentially send a sequence of specially crafted packets that would initiate the loading of a large number of extensions, causing t...

kernel: netfilter connection tracking extensions denial of service

An integer overflow flaw was found in the way the Linux kernel's netfilter connection tracking implementation loaded extensions. An attacker on a local network could potentially send a sequence of specially crafted packets that would initiate the loading of a large number of extensions, causing t...

kernel: netfilter connection tracking extensions denial of service

An integer overflow flaw was found in the way the Linux kernel's netfilter connection tracking implementation loaded extensions. An attacker on a local network could potentially send a sequence of specially crafted packets that would initiate the loading of a large number of extensions, causing t...

Moderate: Red Hat Security Advisory: kernel-rt security, bug fix, and enhancement update

Updated kernel-rt packages that fix three security issues, several bugs, and add various enhancements are now available for Red Hat Enterprise MRG 2.5. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having Moderate security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base scores, which gi...

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS : linux vulnerability (USN-2611-1)

Vincent Tondellier discovered an integer overflow in the Linux kernel's netfilter connection tracking accounting of loaded extensions. An attacker on the local area network LAN could potential exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service system crash of targeted system. Note that Tenable Networ...

Linux kernel Netfilter Connection Tracking Extension Load Denial of Service Vulnerability

Linux kernel is an open source operating system. A security vulnerability in the Linux kernel Netfilter Connection Tracking Extension loading feature allows an attacker to exploit the vulnerability to submit a special request to crash the system...

Debian Security Advisory DSA 3237-1 (linux - security update)

Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Linux kernel that may lead to a privilege escalation, denial of service or information leaks. CVE-2014-8159 It was found that the Linux kernel OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: deb3237.nasl 6609 2017-07-07 12:05:59Z cfischer $ Auto-generated from...

Debian DLA-155-1 : linux-2.6 security update

This update fixes the CVEs described below. A further issue, CVE-2014-9419, was considered, but appears to require extensive changes with a consequent high risk of regression. It is now unlikely to be fixed in squeeze-lts. CVE-2013-6885 It was discovered that under specific circumstances, a...

Scientific Linux Security Update : kernel on SL6.x i386/x86_64 (20150311)

It was found that the Linux kernel's Infiniband subsystem did not properly sanitize input parameters while registering memory regions from user space via the uverbs API. A local user with access to a /dev/infiniband/uverbsX device could use this flaw to crash the system or, potentially, escalate...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: kernel security and bug fix update

Updated kernel packages that fix multiple security issues and several bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having Important security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base scores, which give detailed severity...

kernel: iptables restriction bypass if a protocol handler kernel module not loaded

A flaw was found in the way the Linux kernel's netfilter subsystem handled generic protocol tracking. As demonstrated in the Stream Control Transmission Protocol SCTP case, a remote attacker could use this flaw to bypass intended iptables rule restrictions when the associated connection tracking...

kernel: iptables restriction bypass if a protocol handler kernel module not loaded

A flaw was found in the way the Linux kernel's netfilter subsystem handled generic protocol tracking. As demonstrated in the Stream Control Transmission Protocol SCTP case, a remote attacker could use this flaw to bypass intended iptables rule restrictions when the associated connection tracking...

USN-2517-1 linux-lts-utopic vulnerabilities

A flaw was discovered in the Kernel Virtual Machine's KVM emulation of the SYSTENTER instruction when the guest OS does not initialize the SYSENTER MSRs. A guest OS user could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service of the guest OS crash or potentially gain privileges on the guest OS...

Debian DSA-3170-1 : linux - security update

Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Linux kernel that may lead to a denial of service, information leaks or privilege escalation. - CVE-2013-7421 / CVE-2014-9644 It was discovered that the Crypto API allowed unprivileged users to load arbitrary kernel modules. A local user can use...

[SECURITY] [DLA 155-1] linux-2.6 security update

Package : linux-2.6 Version : 2.6.32-48squeeze11 CVE ID : CVE-2013-6885 CVE-2014-7822 CVE-2014-8133 CVE-2014-8134 CVE-2014-8160 CVE-2014-9420 CVE-2014-9584 CVE-2014-9585 CVE-2015-1421 CVE-2015-1593 This update fixes the CVEs described below. A further issue, CVE-2014-9419, was considered, but...