SUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : kernel (SUSE-SU-2019:0801-1)

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 SP3 kernel was updated to 4.4.176 to receive various security and bugfixes. The following security bugs were fixed : CVE-2019-9213: expanddownwards in mm/mmap.c lacked a check for the mmap minimum address, which made it easier for attackers to exploit kernel NULL...

Updated kernel packages fix security vulnerability

This kernel update is based on the upstream 4.14.106 and fixes at least the following security issue: In the Linux kernel before 4.20.14, expanddownwards in mm/mmap.c lacks a check for the mmap minimum address, which makes it easier for attackers to exploit kernel NULL pointer dereferences on...

MGASA-2019-0120 Updated kernel packages fix security vulnerability

This kernel update is based on the upstream 4.14.106 and fixes at least the following security issue: In the Linux kernel before 4.20.14, expanddownwards in mm/mmap.c lacks a check for the mmap minimum address, which makes it easier for attackers to exploit kernel NULL pointer dereferences on...

SUSE-SU-2019:0801-1 Security update for the Linux Kernel

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 SP3 kernel was updated to 4.4.176 to receive various security and bugfixes. The following security bugs were fixed: - CVE-2019-9213: expanddownwards in mm/mmap.c lacked a check for the mmap minimum address, which made it easier for attackers to exploit kernel NULL...

SUSE-SU-2019:0785-1 Security update for the Linux Kernel

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 Azure kernel was updated to receive various security and bugfixes. The following security bugs were fixed: - CVE-2019-2024: A use-after-free when disconnecting a source was fixed which could lead to crashes. bnc1129179. - CVE-2019-9213: expanddownwards in mm/mmap.c...

SUSE SLES12 Security Update : kernel (SUSE-SU-2019:0767-1)

The SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP4 Azure kernel was updated to fix various issues. The following security bugs were fixed : CVE-2019-2024: A use-after-free when disconnecting a source was fixed which could lead to crashes. bnc1129179. CVE-2019-9213: expanddownwards in mm/mmap.c lacked a chec...

openSUSE Security Update : the Linux Kernel (openSUSE-2019-974)

The openSUSE Leap 15.0 kernel was updated to 4.12.14-lp150.12.28.1 to receive various security and bugfixes. The following security bugs were fixed : - CVE-2018-18281: The mremap syscall performs TLB flushes after dropping pagetable locks. If a syscall such as ftruncate removes entries from the...

openSUSE Security Update : the Linux Kernel (openSUSE-2019-769)

The openSUSE Leap 15.0 kernel was updated to receive various security and bugfixes. The following security bugs were fixed : - CVE-2018-14633: A security flaw was found in the chapservercomputemd5 function in the ISCSI target code in a way an authentication request from an ISCSI initiator is...

openSUSE Security Update : the Linux Kernel (openSUSE-2019-398) (Spectre)

The openSUSE Leap 15.0 kernel was updated to receive various security and bugfixes. The following security bugs were fixed : - CVE-2018-3639: Systems with microprocessors utilizing speculative execution and speculative execution of memory reads before the addresses of all prior memory writes are...

SUSE-SU-2019:0765-1 Security update for the Linux Kernel

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 SP4 kernel was updated to receive various security and bugfixes. The following security bugs were fixed: - CVE-2018-20669: Missing access control checks in ioctl of gpu/drm/i915 driver were fixed which might have lead to information leaks. bnc1122971. - CVE-2019-3459,...

SUSE-SU-2019:0740-1 Security update for the Linux Kernel (Live Patch 1 for SLE 15)

This update for the Linux Kernel 4.12.14-253 fixes several issues. The following security issues were fixed: - CVE-2019-9213: Expanddownwards in mm/mmap.c lacked a check for the mmap minimum address, which made it easier for attackers to exploit kernel NULL pointer dereferences on non-SMAP...

SUSE-SU-2019:0745-1 Security update for the Linux Kernel (Live Patch 2 for SLE 15)

This update for the Linux Kernel 4.12.14-256 fixes several issues. The following security issues were fixed: - CVE-2019-9213: Expanddownwards in mm/mmap.c lacked a check for the mmap minimum address, which made it easier for attackers to exploit kernel NULL pointer dereferences on non-SMAP...

SUSE-SU-2019:0722-1 Security update for the Linux Kernel (Live Patch 25 for SLE 12 SP2)

This update for the Linux Kernel 4.4.121-9295 fixes several issues. The following security issues were fixed: - CVE-2019-9213: Expanddownwards in mm/mmap.c lacked a check for the mmap minimum address, which made it easier for attackers to exploit kernel NULL pointer dereferences on non-SMAP...

OPENSUSE-SU-2019:0065-1 Security update for the Linux Kernel

The openSUSE Leap 15.0 kernel was updated to receive various security and bugfixes. The following security bugs were fixed: - CVE-2018-19407: The vcpuscanioapic function in arch/x86/kvm/x86.c allowed local users to cause a denial of service NULL pointer dereference and BUG via crafted system call...

SUSE-SU-2019:0709-1 Security update for the Linux Kernel (Live Patch 24 for SLE 12 SP2)

This update for the Linux Kernel 4.4.121-9292 fixes several issues. The following security issues were fixed: - CVE-2019-9213: Expanddownwards in mm/mmap.c lacked a check for the mmap minimum address, which made it easier for attackers to exploit kernel NULL pointer dereferences on non-SMAP...

SUSE-SU-2019:0683-1 Security update for the Linux Kernel (Live Patch 22 for SLE 12 SP2)

This update for the Linux Kernel 4.4.121-9280 fixes several issues. The following security issues were fixed: - CVE-2019-9213: Expanddownwards in mm/mmap.c lacked a check for the mmap minimum address, which made it easier for attackers to exploit kernel NULL pointer dereferences on non-SMAP...

SUSE-SU-2019:0672-1 Security update for the Linux Kernel (Live Patch 32 for SLE 12 SP1)

This update for the Linux Kernel 3.12.74-6064107 fixes several issues. The following security issues were fixed: - CVE-2019-9213: Expanddownwards in mm/mmap.c lacked a check for the mmap minimum address, which made it easier for attackers to exploit kernel NULL pointer dereferences on non-SMAP...

SUSE SLES11 Security Update : kernel (SUSE-SU-2019:13979-1)

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 SP4 kernel was updated to receive various security and bugfixes. The following security bugs were fixed : CVE-2016-10741: fs/xfs/xfsaops.c allowed local users to cause a denial of service system crash because there is a race condition between direct and memory-mapped...

Debian DLA-1715-1 : linux-4.9 security update (Spectre)

Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Linux kernel that may lead to a privilege escalation, denial of service or information leaks. CVE-2017-18249 A race condition was discovered in the disk space allocator of F2FS. A user with access to an F2FS volume could use this to cause a deni...

SUSE-SU-2019:13979-1 Security update for the Linux Kernel

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 SP4 kernel was updated to receive various security and bugfixes. The following security bugs were fixed: - CVE-2016-10741: fs/xfs/xfsaops.c allowed local users to cause a denial of service system crash because there is a race condition between direct and memory-mapped...