Linux kernel UNIX Sockets In-Flight FD Limit Security Bypass Vulnerability

The Linux kernel is the kernel used by the operating system Linux, released by the Linux Foundation in the United States. A security vulnerability exists in the Linux kernel that stems from a program's failure to properly count file descriptors passed over UNIX domain sockets. A local attacker...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-2948-2)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2016 Greenbone AG 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-only ifdescription...

USN-2948-2: Linux kernel (Utopic HWE) regression

USN-2948-1 fixed vulnerabilities in the Ubuntu 14.10 Linux kernel backported to Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. An incorrect reference counting fix in the radeon driver introduced a regression that could cause a system crash. This update fixes the problem. We apologize for the inconvenience. Original advisory...

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS : linux-lts-trusty vulnerabilities (USN-2946-2)

Venkatesh Pottem discovered a use-after-free vulnerability in the Linux kernel's CXGB3 driver. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service system crash or possibly execute arbitrary code. CVE-2015-8812 Xiaofei Rex Guo discovered a timing side channel vulnerability in the Linux...

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : Linux kernel (Vivid HWE) vulnerabilities (USN-2949-1)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-2949-1 advisory. Venkatesh Pottem discovered a use-after-free vulnerability in the Linux kernel's CXGB3 driver. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of servi...

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : Linux kernel (Utopic HWE) vulnerabilities (USN-2948-1)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-2948-1 advisory. Ralf Spenneberg discovered that the USB driver for Clie devices in the Linux kernel did not properly validate the endpoints reported by the device. An...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-2947-3)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2016 Greenbone AG 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-only ifdescription...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-2949-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2016 Greenbone AG 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-only ifdescription...

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : Linux kernel vulnerabilities (USN-2946-1)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-2946-1 advisory. Venkatesh Pottem discovered a use-after-free vulnerability in the Linux kernel's CXGB3 driver. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of servi...

USN-2947-2: Linux kernel (Wily HWE) vulnerabilities

Ralf Spenneberg discovered that the usbvision driver in the Linux kernel did not properly validate the interfaces and endpoints reported by the device. An attacker with physical access could cause a denial of service system crash. CVE-2015-7833 Venkatesh Pottem discovered a use-after-free...

USN-2946-2: Linux kernel (Trusty HWE) vulnerabilities

Venkatesh Pottem discovered a use-after-free vulnerability in the Linux kernel's CXGB3 driver. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service system crash or possibly execute arbitrary code. CVE-2015-8812 Xiaofei Rex Guo discovered a timing side channel vulnerability in the Linux...

Medium: kernel

Issue Overview: When running as a Xen 64-bit PV guest, user mode processes not supposed to be able to access I/O ports may be granted such permission, potentially resulting in one or more of in-guest privilege escalation, guest crashes Denial of Service, or in-guest information leaks. CVE-2016-31...

USN-2932-1 Linux kernel vulnerabilities | Cloud Foundry

USN-2932-1 Linux kernel vulnerabilities High Vendor Ubuntu Description Ben Hawkes discovered that the Linux netfilter implementation did not correctly perform validation when handling IPTSOSETREPLACE events. A local unprivileged attacker could use this to cause a denial of service system crash or...

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : Linux kernel (Utopic HWE) vulnerabilities (USN-2931-1)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-2931-1 advisory. Ben Hawkes discovered that the Linux netfilter implementation did not correctly perform validation when handling IPTSOSETREPLACE events. A local...

USN-2932-1: Linux kernel (Vivid HWE) vulnerabilities

Ben Hawkes discovered that the Linux netfilter implementation did not correctly perform validation when handling IPTSOSETREPLACE events. A local unprivileged attacker could use this to cause a denial of service system crash or possibly execute arbitrary code with administrative privileges...

USN-2929-2: Linux kernel (Trusty HWE) vulnerabilities

Ben Hawkes discovered that the Linux netfilter implementation did not correctly perform validation when handling IPTSOSETREPLACE events. A local unprivileged attacker could use this to cause a denial of service system crash or possibly execute arbitrary code with administrative privileges...

MGASA-2016-0089 Updated perl-FCGI packages fix CVE-2012-6687

Updated fcgi packages fix security vulnerability: FCGI does not perform range checks for file descriptors before use of the FDSET macro. This FDSET macro could allow for more than 1024 total file descriptors to be monitored in the closing state. This may allow remote attackers to cause a denial o...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-2908-5)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2016 Greenbone AG 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-only ifdescription...

Heap overflow

The 1 roamingread and 2 roamingwrite functions in roamingcommon.c in the client in OpenSSH 5.x, 6.x, and 7.x before 7.1p2, when certain proxy and forward options are enabled, do not properly maintain connection file descriptors, which allows remote servers to cause a denial of service heap-based...

Scientific Linux Security Update : squid on SL7.x x86_64 (20151119)

It was found that Squid configured with client-first SSL-bump did not correctly validate X.509 server certificate host name fields. A man-in- the-middle attacker could use this flaw to spoof a Squid server using a specially crafted X.509 certificate. CVE-2015-3455 This update fixes the following...