Cisco AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client Local Denial of Service Vulnerability

A vulnerability in the kernel extension for Mac OS X of Cisco AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client could allow an authenticated, local attacker to cause a denial of service DoS condition. The vulnerability is due to insufficient bounds checking. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by crafti...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-2642-2)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2015 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-2644-2)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2015 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-2640-2)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2015 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-2643-2)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2015 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...

kernel: panic while flushing nftables rules that reference deleted chains.

A flaw was found in the way the nftflushtable function of the Linux kernel's netfilter tables implementation flushed rules that were referencing deleted chains. A local user who has the CAPNETADMIN capability could use this flaw to crash the system...

kernel: panic while flushing nftables rules that reference deleted chains.

A flaw was found in the way the nftflushtable function of the Linux kernel's netfilter tables implementation flushed rules that were referencing deleted chains. A local user who has the CAPNETADMIN capability could use this flaw to crash the system...

Ubuntu Patches Privilege-Escalation Bug

There is a privilege-escalation vulnerability in several versions of Ubuntu that results from the fact that the operating system fails to check permissions when users are creating files in some specific circumstances. Security researcher Philip Pettersson discovered the vulnerability and reported...

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS : linux-lts-trusty regression (USN-2642-2)

The Fix for CVE-2015-1328 introduced a regression into the Linux kernel's overlayfs file system. The removal of a directory that only exists on the lower layer results in a kernel panic. We apologize for the inconvenience. Philip Pettersson discovered a privilege escalation when using overlayfs...

Ubuntu 14.10 : linux regression (USN-2646-2)

The Fix for CVE-2015-1328 introduced a regression into the Linux kernel's overlayfs file system. The removal of a directory that only exists on the lower layer results in a kernel panic. We apologize for the inconvenience. Philip Pettersson discovered a privilege escalation when using overlayfs...

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS : linux regression (USN-2640-2)

The Fix for CVE-2015-1328 introduced a regression into the Linux kernel's overlayfs file system. The removal of a directory that only exists on the lower layer results in a kernel panic. We apologize for the inconvenience. Philip Pettersson discovered a privilege escalation when using overlayfs...

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : Linux kernel regression (USN-2643-2)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-2643-2 advisory. The Fix for CVE-2015-1328 introduced a regression into the Linux kernel's overlayfs file system. The removal of a directory that only exists on the lower layer...

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : Linux kernel (Utopic HWE) regression (USN-2644-2)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-2644-2 advisory. The Fix for CVE-2015-1328 introduced a regression into the Linux kernel's overlayfs file system. The removal of a directory that only exists on the lower layer...

USN-2646-2: Linux kernel regression

The Fix for CVE-2015-1328 introduced a regression into the Linux kernel's overlayfs file system. The removal of a directory that only exists on the lower layer results in a kernel panic. We apologize for the inconvenience. Original advisory details: Philip Pettersson discovered a privilege...

USN-2644-2: Linux kernel (Utopic HWE) regression

The Fix for CVE-2015-1328 introduced a regression into the Linux kernel's overlayfs file system. The removal of a directory that only exists on the lower layer results in a kernel panic. We apologize for the inconvenience. Original advisory details: Philip Pettersson discovered a privilege...

USN-2644-2 linux-lts-utopic regression

The Fix for CVE-2015-1328 introduced a regression into the Linux kernel's overlayfs file system. The removal of a directory that only exists on the lower layer results in a kernel panic. We apologize for the inconvenience. Original advisory details: Philip Pettersson discovered a privilege...

USN-2643-2 linux regression

The Fix for CVE-2015-1328 introduced a regression into the Linux kernel's overlayfs file system. The removal of a directory that only exists on the lower layer results in a kernel panic. We apologize for the inconvenience. Original advisory details: Philip Pettersson discovered a privilege...

USN-2642-2: Linux kernel (Trusty HWE) regression

The Fix for CVE-2015-1328 introduced a regression into the Linux kernel's overlayfs file system. The removal of a directory that only exists on the lower layer results in a kernel panic. We apologize for the inconvenience. Original advisory details: Philip Pettersson discovered a privilege...

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

Updated kernel packages that fix one security issue and several bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having Important security impact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating,...

Scientific Linux Security Update : kernel on SL6.x i386/x86_64 (20150311)

It was found that the Linux kernel's Infiniband subsystem did not properly sanitize input parameters while registering memory regions from user space via the uverbs API. A local user with access to a /dev/infiniband/uverbsX device could use this flaw to crash the system or, potentially, escalate...