kernel: out-of-bound access in ext4_get_group_info() when mounting and operating a crafted ext4 image

A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's ext4 filesystem. A local user can cause an out-of-bound access in ext4getgroupinfo function, a denial of service, and a system crash by mounting and operating on a crafted ext4 filesystem image...

kernel: stack-out-of-bounds write in jbd2_journal_dirty_metadata function

A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's ext4 filesystem. A local user can cause an out-of-bound write in jbd2journaldirtymetadata, a denial of service, and a system crash by mounting and operating on a crafted ext4 filesystem image...

kernel: stack-out-of-bounds write in ext4_update_inline_data function

A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's ext4 filesystem code. A stack-out-of-bounds write in ext4updateinlinedata is possible when mounting and writing to a crafted ext4 image. An attacker could use this to cause a system crash and a denial of service...

kernel: out-of-bound write in ext4_init_block_bitmap function with a crafted ext4 image

A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's ext4 filesystem. A local user can cause an out-of-bounds write and a denial of service or unspecified other impact is possible by mounting and operating a crafted ext4 filesystem image...

kernel: use-after-free detected in ext4_xattr_set_entry with a crafted file

A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's ext4 filesystem. A local user can cause a use-after-free in ext4xattrsetentry function and a denial of service or unspecified other impact may occur by renaming a file in a crafted ext4 filesystem image...

kernel: stack-out-of-bounds write in jbd2_journal_dirty_metadata function

A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's ext4 filesystem. A local user can cause an out-of-bound write in jbd2journaldirtymetadata, a denial of service, and a system crash by mounting and operating on a crafted ext4 filesystem image...

kernel: use-after-free detected in ext4_xattr_set_entry with a crafted file

A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's ext4 filesystem. A local user can cause a use-after-free in ext4xattrsetentry function and a denial of service or unspecified other impact may occur by renaming a file in a crafted ext4 filesystem image...

kernel: out-of-bound access in ext4_get_group_info() when mounting and operating a crafted ext4 image

A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's ext4 filesystem. A local user can cause an out-of-bound access in ext4getgroupinfo function, a denial of service, and a system crash by mounting and operating on a crafted ext4 filesystem image...

openSUSE: Security Advisory for kernel (openSUSE-SU-2018:2407-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the Copyright C 2018 Greenbone Networks GmbH 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-or-later This program is free software; you can...

SUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : kernel (SUSE-SU-2018:2776-1)

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 SP3 kernel was updated to 4.4.155 to receive various security and bugfixes. The following security bugs were fixed : CVE-2018-13093: Prevent NULL pointer dereference and panic in lookupslow on a NULL inode-iops pointer when doing pathwalks on a corrupted xfs image. Th...

SUSE-SU-2018:2596-1 Security update for the Linux Kernel

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 SP3 RT kernel was updated to 4.4.147 to receive various security and bugfixes. The following security bugs were fixed: - CVE-2017-18344: The timercreate syscall implementation in kernel/time/posix-timers.c didn't properly validate the sigevent-sigevnotify field, which...

USN-3752-2 linux-hwe vulnerabilities

USN-3752-1 fixed vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel for Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. This update provides the corresponding updates for the Linux Hardware Enablement HWE kernel from Ubuntu 18.04 LTS for Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. It was discovered that, when attempting to handle an out-of-memory situation, a null...

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS : Linux kernel vulnerabilities (USN-3753-1)

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-3753-1 advisory. It was discovered that the generic SCSI driver in the Linux kernel did not properly enforce permissions on kernel memory access. A local attacker could u...

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : Linux kernel (Xenial HWE) vulnerabilities (USN-3753-2)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-3753-2 advisory. USN-3753-1 fixed vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel for Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. This update provides the corresponding updates for the Linux Hardware Enableme...

SUSE-SU-2018:2450-1 Security update for the Linux Kernel

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 azure kernel was updated to receive various security and bugfixes. The following security bugs were fixed: - CVE-2018-5391: A remote attacker even with relatively low bandwidth could have caused lots of CPU usage by triggering the worst case scenario during fragment...

openSUSE Security Update : the Linux Kernel (openSUSE-2018-886) (Foreshadow)

The openSUSE Leap 15.0 kernel was updated to receive various security and bugfixes. The following security bugs were fixed : - CVE-2018-10853: A flaw was found in KVM in which certain instructions such as sgdt/sidt call segmentedwritestd doesn't propagate access correctly. As such, during userspa...

SUSE-SU-2018:2380-1 Security update for the Linux Kernel

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 kernel was updated to receive various security and bugfixes. The following security bugs were fixed: - CVE-2018-3620: Local attackers on baremetal systems could use speculative code patterns on hyperthreaded processors to read data present in the L1 Datacache used by...

SUSE-SU-2018:2381-1 Security update for the Linux Kernel

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 kernel was updated to receive various security and bugfixes. The following security bugs were fixed: - CVE-2018-3620: Local attackers on baremetal systems could use speculative code patterns on hyperthreaded processors to read data present in the L1 Datacache used by...

Linux kernel out-of-bounds write vulnerability (CNVD-2018-24611)

The Linux kernel is the kernel used by the operating system Linux, released by the Linux Foundation in the United States. ext4 filesystem is one of the ext4 filesystem components. A security vulnerability exists in the ext4 filesystem of the Linux kernel. A local attacker can exploit this...

CVE-2018-10883

A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's ext4 filesystem. A local user can cause an out-of-bounds write in jbd2journaldirtymetadata, a denial of service, and a system crash by mounting and operating on a crafted ext4 filesystem image...