kernel: use-after-free in cdev_put() when a PTP device is removed while it's chardev is open

There is a use-after-free problem seen due to a race condition between the release of ptpclock and cdev while resource deallocation. When a high privileged process allocates a ptp device file like /dev/ptpX and voluntarily goes to sleep. During this time if the underlying device is removed, it ca...

kernel: use-after-free in cdev_put() when a PTP device is removed while it's chardev is open

There is a use-after-free problem seen due to a race condition between the release of ptpclock and cdev while resource deallocation. When a high privileged process allocates a ptp device file like /dev/ptpX and voluntarily goes to sleep. During this time if the underlying device is removed, it ca...

USN-3619-1 linux, linux-aws, linux-kvm, linux-raspi2, linux-snapdragon vulnerabilities

Jann Horn discovered that the Berkeley Packet Filter BPF implementation in the Linux kernel improperly performed sign extension in some situations. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service system crash or possibly execute arbitrary code. CVE-2017-16995 It was discovered that a...

UBUNTU-CVE-2017-18203

The dmgetfromkobject function in drivers/md/dm.c in the Linux kernel before 4.14.3 allow local users to cause a denial of service BUG by leveraging a race condition with dmdestroy during creation and removal of DM devices...

kernel security and bug fix update

kernel 2.6.18-404.0.0.0.1 - net fix tcptrimhead James Li orabug 14512145, 19219078 - ocfs2: dlm: fix recovery hung Junxiao Bi orabug 13956772 - i386: fix MTRR code Zhenzhong Duan orabug 15862649 - oprofile x86, mm: Add getuserpagesfast orabug 14277030 - oprofile export getuserpagesfast function...

Unbreakable Enterprise kernel security and bugfix update

2.6.39-400.23.1 - Parallel mtrr init between cpus Zhenzhong Duan Orabug: 16777774 - Merge tag 'v2.6.39-400.21.1.16748891' of git://ca-git.us.oracle.com/linux-uek-2.6.39-ofed into uek-2.6.39-400 Maxim Uvarov Orabug: 16748891 - xen-blkfront: use a different scatterlist for each request Roger Pau...

kernel security and bug fix update

2.6.32-279.9.1.el6 - md raid1, raid10: avoid deadlock during resync/recovery. Dave Wysochanski 845464 835613 - fs dlm: fix deadlock between dlmsend and dlmcontrold David Teigland 849051 824964 - ata libata: Add space to fix 2GB ATA Flash Disk/ADMA428M blacklist Prarit Bhargava 851445 843849 - fs...

CentOS 5 : kvm (CESA-2012:0676)

Updated kvm packages that fix two security issues and one bug are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having moderate security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base scores, which give detailed severity ratings,...

kmod, kvm security update

CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-2012:0676 Updated kvm packages that fix two security issues and one bug are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having moderate security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS...

kernel security and bug fix update

2.6.9-78.0.8.0.1.EL - fix entropy flag in bnx2 driver to generate entropy pool John Sobecki orabug 5931647 - fix skb alignment that was causing sendto to fail with EFAULT Olaf Kirch orabug 6845794 - fix enomem due to larger mtu size page alloc Zach Brown orabug 5486128 - fix percpu api bugon with...

openSUSE 10 Security Update : kernel (kernel-4641)

This kernel update fixes the following security problems : ++ CVE-2006-6058: A local denial of service when mounting MINIX filesystems was fixed. ++ CVE-2007-4997: A 2 byte buffer underflow in the ieee80211 stack was fixed, which might be used by attackers in WLAN reach to crash the machine. and...