CentOS 7 : kernel (CESA-2016:1633)

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...

Scientific Linux Security Update : kernel on SL7.x x86_64 (20160818)

It was found that the RFC 5961 challenge ACK rate limiting as implemented in the Linux kernel's networking subsystem allowed an off-path attacker to leak certain information about a given connection by creating congestion on the global challenge ACK rate limit counter and then measuring the chang...

RHEL 7 : kernel (RHSA-2016:1633)

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...

SUSE-SU-2016:2007-1 Security update for Linux Kernel Live Patch 3 for SLE 12 SP1

This update for the Linux Kernel 3.12.53-6030 fixes the several issues. These security issues were fixed: - CVE-2016-4470: The keyrejectandlink function in security/keys/key.c in the Linux kernel did not ensure that a certain data structure is initialized, which allowed local users to cause a...

SUSE-SU-2016:2011-1 Security update for Linux Kernel Live Patch 6 for SLE 12 SP1

This update for the Linux Kernel 3.12.59-6045 fixes the several issues. These security issues were fixed: - CVE-2016-4470: The keyrejectandlink function in security/keys/key.c in the Linux kernel did not ensure that a certain data structure is initialized, which allowed local users to cause a...

SUSE-SU-2016:2010-1 Security update for Linux Kernel Live Patch 11 for SLE 12

This update for the Linux Kernel 3.12.51-5239 fixes several issues. The following security bugs were fixed: - CVE-2016-4470: The keyrejectandlink function in security/keys/key.c in the Linux kernel did not ensure that a certain data structure is initialized, which allowed local users to cause a...

SUSE-SU-2016:2006-1 Security update for Linux Kernel Live Patch 12 for SLE 12

This update for the Linux Kernel 3.12.55-5242 fixes several issues. The following security bugs were fixed: - CVE-2016-4470: The keyrejectandlink function in security/keys/key.c in the Linux kernel did not ensure that a certain data structure is initialized, which allowed local users to cause a...

SUSE-SU-2016:2001-1 Security update for Linux Kernel Live Patch 13 for SLE 12

This update for the Linux Kernel 3.12.55-5245 fixes several issues. The following security bugs were fixed: - CVE-2016-4470: The keyrejectandlink function in security/keys/key.c in the Linux kernel did not ensure that a certain data structure is initialized, which allowed local users to cause a...

[SECURITY] Fedora 23 Update: kernel-4.6.5-200.fc23

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[SECURITY] Fedora 24 Update: kernel-4.6.5-300.fc24

The kernel meta package...

SUSE-SU-2016:1985-1 Security update for the Linux Kernel

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 SP4 RT kernel was updated to receive various security and bugfixes. The following security bugs were fixed: - CVE-2016-5829: Multiple heap-based buffer overflows in the hiddevioctlusage function in drivers/hid/usbhid/hiddev.c in the Linux kernel allowed local users to...

Unbreakable Enterprise kernel security update

kernel-uek 4.1.12-37.6.2 - KEYS: potential uninitialized variable Dan Carpenter Orabug: 24393865 CVE-2016-4470 - ovl: fix permission checking for setattr Miklos Szeredi Orabug: 24393742 CVE-2015-8660...

Unbreakable Enterprise kernel security update

2.6.39-400.283.2 - KEYS: potential uninitialized variable Dan Carpenter Orabug: 24393863 CVE-2016-4470...

SUSE-SU-2016:1937-1 Security update for the Linux Kernel

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 SP1 RT kernel was updated to 3.12.61 to receive various security and bugfixes. Main feature additions: - Improved support for Clustered File System CephFS, fate318586. The following security bugs were fixed: - CVE-2014-9717: fs/namespace.c in the Linux kernel processe...

Unbreakable Enterprise kernel security update

2.6.39-400.283.1 - atl2: Disable unimplemented scatter/gather feature Ben Hutchings Orabug: 23703990 CVE-2016-2117 - mlx4core: add module parameter to disable background init Mukesh Kacker Orabug: 23292107 - NFSv4: Don't decode fslocations if we didn't ask for them... Trond Myklebust Orabug:...

Updated kernel packages fix security vulnerability

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...

RHEL 6 : kernel (RHSA-2016:1489)

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...

Fedora 24 : kernel (2016-9a16b2e14e)

Update to latest upstream stable release, Linux v4.6.4 For those with Skylake CPUs, please note that there may be instability with a recent microcode update. Read https://www.happyassassin.net/2016/07/07/psa-failure-to-boot-after-ker nel-update-on-skylake-systems/ and look for a system firmware...

Fedora 22 : kernel (2016-63ee0999e4)

The 4.4.14 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 introducin...

Fedora 23 : kernel (2016-784d5526d8)

Update to latest upstream stable release, Linux v4.6.4 For those with Skylake CPUs, please note that there may be instability with a recent microcode update. Read https://www.happyassassin.net/2016/07/07/psa-failure-to-boot-after-ker nel-update-on-skylake-systems/ and look for a system firmware...