RHEL 6 : kernel (RHSA-2016:2074)

An update for kernel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.5 Advanced Update Support. 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...

RHEL 6 : kernel (RHSA-2016:2076)

An update for kernel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.7 Extended Update Support. 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...

Updated kernel packages fixes security vulnerablilities

This update is based on the upstream 4.4.22 kernel and fixes at least theese security issues: sound/core/timer.c in the Linux kernel through 4.6 does not initialize certain r1 data structures, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel stack memory via crafted use of the...

CentOS 7 : kernel (CESA-2016:2047)

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...

RHEL 7 : kernel (RHSA-2016:2047)

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...

RedHat Update for kernel RHSA-2016:1847-01

The remote host is missing an update for the 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...

Security update for the Linux Kernel (important)

The openSUSE Leap 42.1 kernel was updated to 4.1.31 to receive various security and bugfixes. The following security bugs were fixed: - CVE-2016-2847: fs/pipe.c in the Linux kernel did not limit the amount of unread data in pipes, which allowed local users to cause a denial of service memory...

RHEL 6 : kernel (RHSA-2016:1815)

An update for kernel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.7 Extended Update Support. 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...

SUSE SLES11 Security Update : kernel (SUSE-SU-2016:2245-1)

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 SP3 LTSS kernel was updated to receive various security and bugfixes. The following security bugs were fixed : - CVE-2016-3955: The usbiprecvxbuff function in drivers/usb/usbip/usbipcommon.c in the Linux kernel allowed remote attackers to cause a denial of service...

Fedora 23 : kernel (2016-f1adaaadc6)

The -101 build is an incremental build. it contains several fixes for known bugzillas and one fix for a known oom regression. ---- This is a rebase to 4.7.2. The 4.7.2 contains a number of important fixes across the tree. Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description...

MGASA-2016-0284 Updated kernel-linus packages fix security vulnerabilities

This update is based on the upstream 4.4.16 kernel and fixes at least theese security issues: nfsd in the Linux kernel through 4.6.3 allows local users to bypass intended file-permission restrictions by setting a POSIX ACL, related to nfs2acl.c, nfs3acl.c, and nfs4acl.c. CVE-2016-1237. The...

Security update for the Linux Kernel (important)

The openSUSE 13.1 kernel was updated to 3.12.62 to receive various security and bugfixes. The following security bugs were fixed: - CVE-2014-9904: The sndcompresscheckinput function in sound/core/compressoffload.c in the ALSA subsystem in the Linux kernel did not properly check for an integer...

SUSE-SU-2016:2174-1 Security update for Linux Kernel Live Patch 0 for SLE 12 SP1

This update for the Linux Kernel 3.12.49-11 fixes several issues. The following security bugs were fixed: - CVE-2016-6480: Race condition in the ioctlsendfib function in drivers/scsi/aacraid/commctrl.c in the Linux kernel allowed local users to cause a denial of service out-of-bounds access or...

SUSE-SU-2016:2179-1 Security update for Linux Kernel Live Patch 2 for SLE 12 SP1

This update for the Linux Kernel 3.12.51-6025 fixes several issues. The following security bugs were fixed: - CVE-2016-6480: Race condition in the ioctlsendfib function in drivers/scsi/aacraid/commctrl.c in the Linux kernel allowed local users to cause a denial of service out-of-bounds access or...

SUSE SLES11 Security Update : kernel (SUSE-SU-2016:1672-1)

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 SP4 kernel was updated to receive various security and bugfixes. Notable changes in this kernel : - It is now possible to mount a NFS export on the exporting host directly. The following security bugs were fixed : - CVE-2016-5244: A kernel information leak in...

SUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : kernel (SUSE-SU-2016:1709-1)

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 kernel was updated to receive critical security and bugfixes. Security issue fixed : - CVE-2016-4997: A buffer overflow in 32bit compatsetsockopt iptables handling could lead to a local privilege escalation. bsc986362 The update package also includes non-security fixe...

SUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : kernel (SUSE-SU-2016:1690-1)

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 kernel was updated to 3.12.60 to receive various security and bugfixes. The following security bugs were fixed : - CVE-2014-9717: fs/namespace.c in the Linux kernel processes MNTDETACH umount2 system called without verifying that the MNTLOCKED flag is unset, which...

Fedora 24 : kernel (2016-5e24d8c350)

The 4.6.7 update contains a number of important fixes across the tree Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system website. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing...

RHEL 7 : kernel (RHSA-2016:1657)

An update for kernel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.1 Extended Update Support. 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...

kernel security and bug fix update

2.6.32-642.4.2 - net tcp: make challenge acks less predictable Florian Westphal 1355606 1355607 CVE-2016-5696 2.6.32-642.4.1 - ipmi Remove smimsg from waitingrcvmsgs list before handleonerecvmsg David Arcari 1355980 1347189 - fs ext4: Remove useless spinlock in ext4getattr Lukas Czerner 1355981...