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

An update for kernel-rt is now available for Red Hat Enterprise MRG 2.5. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from...

Scientific Linux Security Update : kernel on SL7.x x86_64 (20160623)

To see the complete list of bug fixes, users are directed to the related Knowledge Article : Security Fixes : - A flaw was found in the way certain interfaces of the Linux kernel's Infiniband subsystem used write as bi-directional ioctl replacement, which could lead to insufficient memory securit...

Oracle Linux 7 : kernel (ELSA-2016-1277)

The remote Oracle Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2016-1277 advisory. - infiniband security: Restrict use of the write interface Don Dutile 1332553 1316685 CVE-2016-4565 - net sctp: Prevent soft lockup when sctpaccept is...

CentOS 7 : kernel (CESA-2016:1277)

An update for kernel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from th...

CentOS Update for kernel CESA-2016:1277 centos7

Check the version of kernel 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 scriptoid"1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.882511";...

RHEL 7 : kernel (RHSA-2016:1277)

An update for kernel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from th...

kernel: infiniband: Unprivileged process can overwrite kernel memory using rdma_ucm.ko

A flaw was found in the way certain interfaces of the Linux kernel's Infiniband subsystem used write as bi-directional ioctl replacement, which could lead to insufficient memory security checks when being invoked using the splice system call. A local unprivileged user on a system with either...

kernel: infiniband: Unprivileged process can overwrite kernel memory using rdma_ucm.ko

A flaw was found in the way certain interfaces of the Linux kernel's Infiniband subsystem used write as bi-directional ioctl replacement, which could lead to insufficient memory security checks when being invoked using the splice system call. A local unprivileged user on a system with either...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: kernel security and bug fix update

An update for kernel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from th...

kernel security and bug fix update

3.10.0-327.22.2.OL7 - Oracle Linux certificates Alexey Petrenko 3.10.0-327.22.2 - infiniband security: Restrict use of the write interface Don Dutile 1332553 1316685 CVE-2016-4565 3.10.0-327.22.1 - mm mmunotifier: fix memory corruption Jerome Glisse 1335727 1307042 - misc cxl: Increase timeout...

openSUSE Security Update : the Linux Kernel (openSUSE-2016-753)

The openSUSE Leap 42.1 kernel was updated to 4.1.26 to receive various security and bugfixes. The following security bugs were fixed : - CVE-2016-1583: Prevent the usage of mmap when the lower file system does not allow it. This could have lead to local privilege escalation when ecryptfs-utils wa...

Oracle Linux 6 / 7 : Unbreakable Enterprise kernel (ELSA-2016-3570)

The remote Oracle Linux 6 / 7 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ELSA-2016-3570 advisory. kernel-uek 4.1.12-37.5.1 - sched/core: Clear the rootdomain cpumasks in initrootdomain Xunlei Pang Orabug: 23520741 - ocfs2: bump up o2cb network protocol...

USN-3007-1: Linux kernel (Raspberry Pi 2) vulnerabilities

Justin Yackoski discovered that the Atheros L2 Ethernet Driver in the Linux kernel incorrectly enables scatter/gather I/O. A remote attacker could use this to obtain potentially sensitive information from kernel memory. CVE-2016-2117 Jann Horn discovered that eCryptfs improperly attempted to use...

USN-3006-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Justin Yackoski discovered that the Atheros L2 Ethernet Driver in the Linux kernel incorrectly enables scatter/gather I/O. A remote attacker could use this to obtain potentially sensitive information from kernel memory. CVE-2016-2117 Jann Horn discovered that eCryptfs improperly attempted to use...

USN-3005-1: Linux kernel (Xenial HWE) vulnerabilities

Justin Yackoski discovered that the Atheros L2 Ethernet Driver in the Linux kernel incorrectly enables scatter/gather I/O. A remote attacker could use this to obtain potentially sensitive information from kernel memory. CVE-2016-2117 Jann Horn discovered that eCryptfs improperly attempted to use...

USN-3004-1: Linux kernel (Raspberry Pi 2) vulnerabilities

Justin Yackoski discovered that the Atheros L2 Ethernet Driver in the Linux kernel incorrectly enables scatter/gather I/O. A remote attacker could use this to obtain potentially sensitive information from kernel memory. CVE-2016-2117 Jann Horn discovered that eCryptfs improperly attempted to use...

USN-3003-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Justin Yackoski discovered that the Atheros L2 Ethernet Driver in the Linux kernel incorrectly enables scatter/gather I/O. A remote attacker could use this to obtain potentially sensitive information from kernel memory. CVE-2016-2117 Jann Horn discovered that eCryptfs improperly attempted to use...

USN-3002-1: Linux kernel (Wily HWE) vulnerabilities

Justin Yackoski discovered that the Atheros L2 Ethernet Driver in the Linux kernel incorrectly enables scatter/gather I/O. A remote attacker could use this to obtain potentially sensitive information from kernel memory. CVE-2016-2117 Jann Horn discovered that eCryptfs improperly attempted to use...

USN-3001-1: Linux kernel (Vivid HWE) vulnerabilities

Justin Yackoski discovered that the Atheros L2 Ethernet Driver in the Linux kernel incorrectly enables scatter/gather I/O. A remote attacker could use this to obtain potentially sensitive information from kernel memory. CVE-2016-2117 Jann Horn discovered that eCryptfs improperly attempted to use...

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : Linux kernel (Vivid HWE) vulnerabilities (USN-3001-1)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-3001-1 advisory. Justin Yackoski discovered that the Atheros L2 Ethernet Driver in the Linux kernel incorrectly enables scatter/gather I/O. A remote attacker could use th...