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

Updated kernel packages that fix several security issues and bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having Important security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base scores, which give detailed severity ratings, are...

CVE-2014-3610

The WRMSR processing functionality in the KVM subsystem in the Linux kernel through 3.17.2 does not properly handle the writing of a non-canonical address to a model-specific register, which allows guest OS users to cause a denial of service host OS crash by leveraging guest OS privileges, relate...

CVE-2014-3611

Race condition in the kvmmigratepittimer function in arch/x86/kvm/i8254.c in the KVM subsystem in the Linux kernel through 3.17.2 allows guest OS users to cause a denial of service host OS crash by leveraging incorrect PIT emulation. A local guest user with access to the PIT i/o ports could use...

[USN-2359-1] Linux kernel vulnerabilities

========================================================================== Ubuntu Security Notice USN-2359-1 September 23, 2014 linux vulnerabilities ========================================================================== A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives: -...

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : Linux kernel vulnerabilities (USN-2359-1)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-2359-1 advisory. Jack Morgenstein reported a flaw in the page handling of the KVM Kerenl Virtual Machine subsystem in the Linux kernel. A guest OS user could exploit this...

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS : linux-lts-trusty vulnerabilities (USN-2358-1)

Jack Morgenstein reported a flaw in the page handling of the KVM Kerenl Virtual Machine subsystem in the Linux kernel. A guest OS user could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service host OS memory corruption or possibly have other unspecified impact on the host OS. CVE-2014-3601 Jason...

USN-2358-1: Linux kernel (Trusty HWE) vulnerabilities

Jack Morgenstein reported a flaw in the page handling of the KVM Kerenl Virtual Machine subsystem in the Linux kernel. A guest OS user could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service host OS memory corruption or possibly have other unspecified impact on the host OS. CVE-2014-3601 Jason...

USN-2356-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Jack Morgenstein reported a flaw in the page handling of the KVM Kerenl Virtual Machine subsystem in the Linux kernel. A guest OS user could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service host OS memory corruption or possibly have other unspecified impact on the host OS. CVE-2014-3601 Chris Evans...

Ubuntu 12.10 : linux vulnerabilities (USN-2178-1)

A flaw was discovered in the Kernel Virtual Machine KVM subsystem of the Linux kernel. A guest OS user could exploit this flaw to execute arbitrary code on the host OS. CVE-2014-0049 Al Viro discovered an error in how CIFS in the Linux kernel handles uncached write operations. An unprivileged loc...

USN-2178-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

A flaw was discovered in the Kernel Virtual Machine KVM subsystem of the Linux kernel. A guest OS user could exploit this flaw to execute arbitrary code on the host OS. CVE-2014-0049 Al Viro discovered an error in how CIFS in the Linux kernel handles uncached write operations. An unprivileged loc...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-2138-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2014 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 12.04 LTS : linux-lts-raring vulnerabilities (USN-2136-1)

Mathy Vanhoef discovered an error in the the way the ath9k driver was handling the BSSID masking. A remote attacker could exploit this error to discover the original MAC address after a spoofing atack. CVE-2013-4579 Andrew Honig reported a flaw in the Linux Kernel's kvmvmioctlcreatevcpu function ...

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS : linux-lts-quantal vulnerabilities (USN-2135-1)

Mathy Vanhoef discovered an error in the the way the ath9k driver was handling the BSSID masking. A remote attacker could exploit this error to discover the original MAC address after a spoofing atack. CVE-2013-4579 Andrew Honig reported a flaw in the Linux Kernel's kvmvmioctlcreatevcpu function ...

USN-2141-1: Linux kernel (OMAP4) vulnerabilities

Mathy Vanhoef discovered an error in the the way the ath9k driver was handling the BSSID masking. A remote attacker could exploit this error to discover the original MAC address after a spoofing atack. CVE-2013-4579 Andrew Honig reported a flaw in the Linux Kernel's kvmvmioctlcreatevcpu function ...

USN-2139-1: Linux kernel (OMAP4) vulnerabilities

Mathy Vanhoef discovered an error in the the way the ath9k driver was handling the BSSID masking. A remote attacker could exploit this error to discover the original MAC address after a spoofing atack. CVE-2013-4579 Andrew Honig reported a flaw in the Linux Kernel's kvmvmioctlcreatevcpu function ...

USN-2138-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Mathy Vanhoef discovered an error in the the way the ath9k driver was handling the BSSID masking. A remote attacker could exploit this error to discover the original MAC address after a spoofing atack. CVE-2013-4579 Andrew Honig reported a flaw in the Linux Kernel's kvmvmioctlcreatevcpu function ...

Ubuntu Update for linux USN-2114-1

Check for the Version of linux OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: gbubuntuUSN21141.nasl 7957 2017-12-01 06:40:08Z santu $ Ubuntu Update for linux USN-2114-1 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright C 2014 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This program is free software; yo...

Ubuntu Update for linux-lts-quantal USN-2111-1

Check for the Version of linux-lts-quantal OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: gbubuntuUSN21111.nasl 7957 2017-12-01 06:40:08Z santu $ Ubuntu Update for linux-lts-quantal USN-2111-1 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright C 2014 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This...

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS : linux-lts-raring vulnerabilities (USN-2112-1)

Vasily Kulikov reported a flaw in the Linux kernel's implementation of ptrace. An unprivileged local user could exploit this flaw to obtain sensitive information from kernel memory. CVE-2013-2929 Dave Jones and Vince Weaver reported a flaw in the Linux kernel's perf event subsystem that allows...

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS : linux vulnerabilities (USN-2109-1)

Vasily Kulikov reported a flaw in the Linux kernel's implementation of ptrace. An unprivileged local user could exploit this flaw to obtain sensitive information from kernel memory. CVE-2013-2929 Stephan Mueller reported an error in the Linux kernel's ansi cprng random number generator. This flaw...