USN-2615-1: Linux kernel (Utopic HWE) vulnerabilities

Alexandre Oliva reported a race condition flaw in the btrfs file system's handling of extended attributes xattrs. A local attacker could exploit this flaw to bypass ACLs and potentially escalate privileges. CVE-2014-9710 A memory corruption issue was discovered in AES decryption when using the...

Updated kernel-tmb packages fix security vulnerabilities

This kernel-tmb update is based on upstream -longterm 3.14.41 and fixes the following security issues: 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...

Updated kernel package fixes security vulnerabilities

This kernel update is based on upstream -longterm 3.14.39 and fixes the following security issues: 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 ...

Updated kernel-linus package fixes security vulnerabilities

This kernel-linus update is based on upstream -longterm 3.14.39 and fixes the following security issues: 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 acce...

Linux kernel TCP Fast Open Denial of Service Vulnerability

Linux kernel is an open source operating system. A security vulnerability exists in the Linux kernel when TCP Fast Open is enabled, which allows a local attacker to exploit the vulnerability by submitting a special request to crash the system...

DSA-3237-1 linux - security update

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CVE-2015-3332

A certain backport in the TCP Fast Open implementation for the Linux kernel before 3.18 does not properly maintain a count value, which allow local users to cause a denial of service system crash via the Fast Open feature, as demonstrated by visiting the chrome://flags/enable-tcp-fast-open URL wh...

UBUNTU-CVE-2015-3332

A certain backport in the TCP Fast Open implementation for the Linux kernel before 3.18 does not properly maintain a count value, which allow local users to cause a denial of service system crash via the Fast Open feature, as demonstrated by visiting the chrome://flags/enable-tcp-fast-open URL wh...