RHEL 6 : kernel (RHSA-2012:0571)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 6 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2012:0571 advisory. The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system. This update fixes the following security issues: A fla...

Unbreakable Enterprise kernel security update

2.6.39-100.7.1.el6uek - KVM: Ensure all vcpus are consistent with in-kernel irqchip settings Avi Kivity Bugdb: 13871 CVE-2012-1601 - jbd2: clear BHDelay & BHUnwritten in journalunmapbuffer Eric Sandeen Bugdb: 13871 CVE-2011-4086...

kernel: jbd2: unmapped buffer with _Unwritten or _Delay flags set can lead to DoS

The journalunmapbuffer function in fs/jbd2/transaction.c in the Linux kernel before 3.3.1 does not properly handle the Delay and Unwritten buffer head states, which allows local users to cause a denial of service system crash by leveraging the presence of an ext4 filesystem that was mounted with ...

SuSE 11.2 Security Update : Linux kernel (SAT Patch Numbers 6163 / 6164 / 6172)

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 SP2 kernel has been updated to 3.0.26, which fixes a lot of bugs and security issues. The following security issues have been fixed : - A locking problem in transparent hugepage support could be used by local attackers to potentially crash the host, or via kvm a...

Fedora 16 : kernel-3.2.5-3.fc16 (2012-1497)

CVE-2011-4086 jbd2: unmapped buffer with Unwritten or Delay flags set can lead to DoS rhbz 788260 Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as...

Fedora 15 : kernel-2.6.42.3-2.fc15 (2012-1503)

CVE-2011-4086: jbd2: unmapped buffer with Unwritten or Delay flags set can lead to DoS rhbz 788260 This update rebases the kernel to the newest upstream stable release 3.2.3. As with previous updates, it presents itself as 2.6.xx still, for compatibility reasons. Note that Tenable Network Securit...

RHEL 5 : kernel (RHSA-2012:0107)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 5 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2012:0107 advisory. - kernel: ext4: ext4extinsertextent kernel oops CVE-2011-3638 - kernel: jbd2: unmapped buffer with Unwritten or Delay flags set can lead to...

kernel: jbd2: unmapped buffer with _Unwritten or _Delay flags set can lead to DoS

The journalunmapbuffer function in fs/jbd2/transaction.c in the Linux kernel before 3.3.1 does not properly handle the Delay and Unwritten buffer head states, which allows local users to cause a denial of service system crash by leveraging the presence of an ext4 filesystem that was mounted with ...

kernel security and bug fix update

2.6.18-274.18.1.0.1.el5 - net bonding: fix carrier detect when bond is down John Haxby orabug 13652598 - fix ia64 build error due to add-support-above-32-vcpus.patchZhenzhong Duan - x86 use dynamic vcpuinfo remap to support more than 32 vcpus Zhenzhong Duan - scsi add additional scsi medium error...