[SECURITY] Fedora 21 Update: e2fsprogs-1.42.12-1.fc21

The e2fsprogs package contains a number of utilities for creating, checking, modifying, and correcting any inconsistencies in second, third and fourth extended ext2/ext3/ext4 filesystems. E2fsprogs contains e2fsck used to repair filesystem inconsistencies after an unclean shutdown, mke2fs used to...

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : Linux kernel (Utopic HWE) regression (USN-2447-2)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-2447-2 advisory. USN-2447-1 fixed vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel. Due to an unrelated regression TCP Throughput drops to zero for several drivers after upgrading. This update...

Ubuntu 14.10 : linux regression (USN-2448-2)

USN-2448-1 fixed vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel. Due to an unrelated regression TCP Throughput drops to zero for several drivers after upgrading. This update fixes the problem. We apologize for the inconvenience. An information leak in the Linux kernel was discovered that could leak the high...

USN-2447-2: Linux kernel (Utopic HWE) regression

USN-2447-1 fixed vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel. Due to an unrelated regression TCP Throughput drops to zero for several drivers after upgrading. This update fixes the problem. We apologize for the inconvenience. Original advisory details: An information leak in the Linux kernel was discover...

Ubuntu 14.10 : linux vulnerabilities (USN-2448-1)

An information leak in the Linux kernel was discovered that could leak the high 16 bits of the kernel stack address on 32-bit Kernel Virtual Machine KVM paravirt guests. A user in the guest OS could exploit this leak to obtain information that could potentially be used to aid in attacking the...

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : Linux kernel (Utopic HWE) vulnerabilities (USN-2447-1)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-2447-1 advisory. Andy Lutomirski discovered that the Linux kernel does not properly handle faults associated with the Stack Segment SS register in the x86 architecture. A...

USN-2448-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Andy Lutomirski discovered that the Linux kernel does not properly handle faults associated with the Stack Segment SS register in the x86 architecture. A local attacker could exploit this flaw to gain administrative privileges. CVE-2014-9322 An information leak in the Linux kernel was discovered...

USN-2447-1: Linux kernel (Utopic HWE) vulnerabilities

Andy Lutomirski discovered that the Linux kernel does not properly handle faults associated with the Stack Segment SS register in the x86 architecture. A local attacker could exploit this flaw to gain administrative privileges. CVE-2014-9322 An information leak in the Linux kernel was discovered...

OracleVM 3.1 : kernel-uek (OVMSA-2012-0042)

The remote OracleVM system is missing necessary patches to address critical security updates : - Fix bug number for commit 'cciss: Update HPSABOUNDARY' Joe Jin Orabug: 14681166 - cciss: Update HPSABOUNDARY. Joe Jin Orabug: 14319765 - KVM: introduce kvmforeachmemslot macro Maxim Uvarov Bugdb: 1396...

OracleVM 2.1 : udev (OVMSA-2009-0006)

The remote OracleVM system is missing necessary patches to address critical security updates : CVE-2009-1185 udev before 1.4.1 does not verify whether a NETLINK message originates from kernel space, which allows local users to gain privileges by sending a NETLINK message from user space. - fix fo...

RHEL 6 : kernel (RHSA-2013:1519)

Updated kernel packages that fix two security issues and several bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.2 Extended Update Support. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having important security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base scores, whi...

Fedora 20 : kernel-3.16.6-202.fc20 (2014-13558)

CVE fixes in KVM, ext4, and SCTP. 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 issues. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 ...

kernel security and bug fix update

3.10.0-123.9.2 - Oracle Linux certificates Alexey Petrenko 3.10.0-123.9.2 - virt kvm: fix PIT timer race condition Petr Matousek 1144879 1144880 CVE-2014-3611 - virt kvm/vmx: handle invept and invvpid vm exits gracefully Petr Matousek 1145449 1116936 1144828 1144829 CVE-2014-3645 CVE-2014-3646...

CVE-2014-8086

Race condition in the ext4filewriteiter function in fs/ext4/file.c in the Linux kernel through 3.17 allows local users to cause a denial of service file unavailability via a combination of a write action and an FSETFL fcntl operation for the ODIRECT flag...

CVE-2014-8086

Race condition in the ext4filewriteiter function in fs/ext4/file.c in the Linux kernel through 3.17 allows local users to cause a denial of service file unavailability via a combination of a write action and an FSETFL fcntl operation for the ODIRECT flag...

DEBIAN-CVE-2014-8086

Race condition in the ext4filewriteiter function in fs/ext4/file.c in the Linux kernel through 3.17 allows local users to cause a denial of service file unavailability via a combination of a write action and an FSETFL fcntl operation for the ODIRECT flag...

Race condition

Race condition in the ext4filewriteiter function in fs/ext4/file.c in the Linux kernel through 3.17 allows local users to cause a denial of service file unavailability via a combination of a write action and an FSETFL fcntl operation for the ODIRECT flag...

CVE-2014-8086

Race condition in the ext4filewriteiter function in fs/ext4/file.c in the Linux kernel through 3.17 allows local users to cause a denial of service file unavailability via a combination of a write action and an FSETFL fcntl operation for the ODIRECT flag...

CVE-2014-8086

CVE-2014-8086 : A race condition in the Linux kernel’s ext4_file_write_iter (fs/ext4/file.c) up to version 3.17 can enable a local attacker to cause a denial of service (file unavailability) by racing a write action with an F_SETFL O_DIRECT flag operation. Affected software is the Linux kernel be...

CVE-2014-8086

Race condition in the ext4filewriteiter function in fs/ext4/file.c in the Linux kernel through 3.17 allows local users to cause a denial of service file unavailability via a combination of a write action and an FSETFL fcntl operation for the ODIRECT flag...