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USN-3021-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities
Andrey Konovalov discovered that the CDC Network Control Model USB driver in the Linux kernel did not cancel work events queued if a later error occurred, resulting in a use-after-free. An attacker with physical access could use this to cause a denial of service system crash. CVE-2016-3951 Kangji...
USN-3019-1: Linux kernel (Utopic HWE) vulnerabilities
Jesse Hertz and Tim Newsham discovered that the Linux netfilter implementation did not correctly perform validation when handling 32 bit compatibility IPTSOSETREPLACE events on 64 bit platforms. A local unprivileged attacker could use this to cause a denial of service system crash or execute...
USN-3018-1 linux vulnerabilities
Jesse Hertz and Tim Newsham discovered that the Linux netfilter implementation did not correctly perform validation when handling 32 bit compatibility IPTSOSETREPLACE events on 64 bit platforms. A local unprivileged attacker could use this to cause a denial of service system crash or execute...
USN-3018-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities
Jesse Hertz and Tim Newsham discovered that the Linux netfilter implementation did not correctly perform validation when handling 32 bit compatibility IPTSOSETREPLACE events on 64 bit platforms. A local unprivileged attacker could use this to cause a denial of service system crash or execute...
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-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...
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";...
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...
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...
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...
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: 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 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...