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...

Linux Kernel 'fs/ext4/extents.c' Local Denial of Service Vulnerability

The Linux kernel is the kernel used by the open source operating system Linux. A security vulnerability exists in the Linux kernel's EXT4 file system when using the fallocate zero range function to handle page size block size. A local attacker can exploit this vulnerability to cause a denial of...

Ubuntu 14.10 : linux vulnerabilities (USN-2637-1)

Xiong Zhou discovered a bug in the way the EXT4 filesystem handles fallocate zero range functionality when the page size is greater than the block size. A local attacker could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service system crash. CVE-2015-0275 Wen Xu discovered a use-after-free flaw in the...

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : Linux kernel (Vivid HWE) vulnerabilities (USN-2636-1)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-2636-1 advisory. Xiong Zhou discovered a bug in the way the EXT4 filesystem handles fallocate zero range functionality when the page size is greater than the block size. ...

Ubuntu 15.04 : linux vulnerabilities (USN-2638-1)

Xiong Zhou discovered a bug in the way the EXT4 filesystem handles fallocate zero range functionality when the page size is greater than the block size. A local attacker could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service system crash. CVE-2015-0275 Wen Xu discovered a use-after-free flaw in the...

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : Linux kernel (Utopic HWE) vulnerabilities (USN-2635-1)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-2635-1 advisory. Xiong Zhou discovered a bug in the way the EXT4 filesystem handles fallocate zero range functionality when the page size is greater than the block size. ...

USN-2638-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Xiong Zhou discovered a bug in the way the EXT4 filesystem handles fallocate zero range functionality when the page size is greater than the block size. A local attacker could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service system crash. CVE-2015-0275 Wen Xu discovered a use-after-free flaw in the...

USN-2637-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Xiong Zhou discovered a bug in the way the EXT4 filesystem handles fallocate zero range functionality when the page size is greater than the block size. A local attacker could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service system crash. CVE-2015-0275 Wen Xu discovered a use-after-free flaw in the...

USN-2636-1: Linux kernel (Vivid HWE) vulnerabilities

Xiong Zhou discovered a bug in the way the EXT4 filesystem handles fallocate zero range functionality when the page size is greater than the block size. A local attacker could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service system crash. CVE-2015-0275 Wen Xu discovered a use-after-free flaw in the...

USN-2636-1 linux-lts-vivid vulnerabilities

Xiong Zhou discovered a bug in the way the EXT4 filesystem handles fallocate zero range functionality when the page size is greater than the block size. A local attacker could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service system crash. CVE-2015-0275 Wen Xu discovered a use-after-free flaw in the...

USN-2635-1 linux-lts-utopic vulnerabilities

Xiong Zhou discovered a bug in the way the EXT4 filesystem handles fallocate zero range functionality when the page size is greater than the block size. A local attacker could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service system crash. CVE-2015-0275 Wen Xu discovered a use-after-free flaw in the...

USN-2635-1: Linux kernel (Utopic HWE) vulnerabilities

Xiong Zhou discovered a bug in the way the EXT4 filesystem handles fallocate zero range functionality when the page size is greater than the block size. A local attacker could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service system crash. CVE-2015-0275 Wen Xu discovered a use-after-free flaw in the...

MGASA-2015-0237 Updated kernel-linus packages fix security vulnerabilities and bugs

Updated kernel-linus fixes security, critical data corruption and pdata loss issues This kernel-linus update is based on upstream -longterm 3.14.43 and fixes a security issue, and critical data corruption and data loss issues: drivers/vhost/scsi.c: potential memory corruption CVE-2015-4036 ext4...

Updated kernel-linus packages fix security vulnerabilities and bugs

Updated kernel-linus fixes security, critical data corruption and pdata loss issues This kernel-linus update is based on upstream -longterm 3.14.43 and fixes a security issue, and critical data corruption and data loss issues: drivers/vhost/scsi.c: potential memory corruption CVE-2015-4036 ext4...

Scientific Linux Security Update : kernel on SL7.x x86_64 (20150305)

A flaw was found in the way the Linux kernel's XFS file system handled replacing of remote attributes under certain conditions. A local user with access to XFS file system mount could potentially use this flaw to escalate their privileges on the system. CVE-2015-0274, Important It was found that...

CentOS 7 : kernel (CESA-2015:0290)

Updated kernel packages that fix multiple security issues, address several hundred bugs, and add numerous enhancements are now available as part of the ongoing support and maintenance of Red Hat Enterprise Linux version 7. This is the first regular update. Red Hat Product Security has rated this...

RHEL 6 : kernel-rt (RHSA-2015:0694)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 6 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2015:0694 advisory. The kernel-rt packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system. A flaw was found in the way the Linux kernel's XFS...

Kernel: fs: ext4 race condition

A race condition flaw was found in the Linux kernel's ext4 file system implementation that allowed a local, unprivileged user to crash the system by simultaneously writing to a file and toggling the ODIRECT flag using fcntlFSETFL on that file...

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

Updated kernel-rt packages that fix multiple 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 Important security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base scores, whic...

kernel, perf, python security update

CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-2015:0290 Updated kernel packages that fix multiple security issues, address several hundred bugs, and add numerous enhancements are now available as part of the ongoing support and maintenance of Red Hat Enterprise Linux version 7. This is the first regul...