CVE-2017-18208

CVE-2017-18208 affects the Linux kernel prior to 4.14.4. The vulnerability lies in the MADVISE_WILLNEED handling in mm/madvise.c, where triggering MADVISE_WILLNEED for a DAX mapping allows a local attacker to cause a denial of service via an infinite loop. The issue is local in scope and is tied ...

CVE-2018-7273

In the Linux kernel through 4.15.4, the floppy driver reveals the addresses of kernel functions and global variables using printk calls within the function showfloppy in drivers/block/floppy.c. An attacker can read this information from dmesg and use the addresses to find the locations of kernel...

CVE-2018-7273

In the Linux kernel through 4.15.4, the floppy driver reveals the addresses of kernel functions and global variables using printk calls within the function showfloppy in drivers/block/floppy.c. An attacker can read this information from dmesg and use the addresses to find the locations of kernel...

CVE-2018-7169

An issue was discovered in shadow 4.5. newgidmap in shadow-utils is setuid and allows an unprivileged user to be placed in a user namespace where setgroups2 is permitted. This allows an attacker to remove themselves from a supplementary group, which may allow access to certain filesystem paths if...

SUSE-SU-2018:0345-1 Security update for the Linux Kernel (Live Patch 4 for SLE 12 SP3)

This update for the Linux Kernel 4.4.90-612 fixes several issues. The following security issues were fixed: - CVE-2017-17712: The rawsendmsg function had a race condition that lead to uninitialized stack pointer usage. This allowed a local user to execute code and gain privileges bsc1073230. -...

SUSE-SU-2018:0297-1 Security update for the Linux Kernel (Live Patch 5 for SLE 12 SP2)

This update for the Linux Kernel 4.4.49-9211 fixes several issues. The following security issues were fixed: - CVE-2017-17712: The rawsendmsg function had a race condition that lead to uninitialized stack pointer usage. This allowed a local user to execute code and gain privileges bsc1073230. -...

SUSE-SU-2018:0301-1 Security update for the Linux Kernel (Live Patch 17 for SLE 12 SP2)

This update for the Linux Kernel 4.4.103-9256 fixes one issue. The following security issue was fixed: - CVE-2017-17712: The rawsendmsg function had a race condition that lead to uninitialized stack pointer usage. This allowed a local user to execute code and gain privileges bsc1073230...

SUSE-SU-2018:0281-1 Security update for the Linux Kernel (Live Patch 14 for SLE 12 SP2)

This update for the Linux Kernel 4.4.90-9245 fixes several issues. The following security issues were fixed: - CVE-2017-17712: The rawsendmsg function had a race condition that lead to uninitialized stack pointer usage. This allowed a local user to execute code and gain privileges bsc1073230. -...

SUSE-SU-2018:0269-1 Security update for the Linux Kernel (Live Patch 8 for SLE 12 SP2)

This update for the Linux Kernel 4.4.59-9220 fixes several issues. The following security issues were fixed: - CVE-2017-17712: The rawsendmsg function had a race condition that lead to uninitialized stack pointer usage. This allowed a local user to execute code and gain privileges bsc1073230. -...

SUSE-SU-2018:0268-1 Security update for the Linux Kernel (Live Patch 18 for SLE 12 SP1)

This update for the Linux Kernel 3.12.74-606451 fixes several issues. The following security issues were fixed: - CVE-2017-15868: The bnepaddconnection function in net/bluetooth/bnep/core.c in did not ensure that an l2cap socket is available, which allowed local users to gain privileges via a...

SUSE-SU-2018:0275-1 Security update for the Linux Kernel (Live Patch 14 for SLE 12 SP1)

This update for the Linux Kernel 3.12.69-606435 fixes several issues. The following security issues were fixed: - CVE-2017-15868: The bnepaddconnection function in net/bluetooth/bnep/core.c in did not ensure that an l2cap socket is available, which allowed local users to gain privileges via a...

SUSE-SU-2018:0238-1 Security update for the Linux Kernel (Live Patch 16 for SLE 12 SP1)

This update for the Linux Kernel 3.12.74-606445 fixes several issues. The following security issues were fixed: - CVE-2017-15868: The bnepaddconnection function in net/bluetooth/bnep/core.c in did not ensure that an l2cap socket is available, which allowed local users to gain privileges via a...

SUSE-SU-2018:0241-1 Security update for the Linux Kernel (Live Patch 24 for SLE 12)

This update for the Linux Kernel 3.12.61-5283 fixes one issue. The following security issues were fixed: - CVE-2017-15868: The bnepaddconnection function in net/bluetooth/bnep/core.c did not ensure that an l2cap socket is available, which allowed local users to gain privileges via a crafted...

Unbreakable Enterprise kernel security update

4.1.12-112.14.13 - Revert 'kernel.spec: Require the new microcodectl.' Brian Maly 4.1.12-112.14.12 - xen-blkback: add pendingreq allocation stats Ankur Arora Orabug: 27386890 - xen-blkback: move indirect req allocation out-of-line Ankur Arora Orabug: 27386890 - xen-blkback: pull nseg validation o...

Security update for the Linux Kernel (important)

The openSUSE Leap 42.3 kernel was updated to 4.4.104 to receive various security and bugfixes. This update adds mitigations for various side channel attacks against modern CPUs that could disclose content of otherwise unreadable memory bnc1068032. - CVE-2017-5753 / "SpectreAttack": Local attacker...

Unbreakable Enterprise kernel security update

4.1.12-112.14.5 - x86/ibrs: Remove 'ibrsdump' and remove the prdebug Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk Orabug: 27350825 4.1.12-112.14.4 - kABI: Revert kABI: Make the bootcpudata look normal Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk CVE-2017-5715 4.1.12-112.14.3 - userns: prevent speculative execution Elena Reshetova Orabug:...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: kernel security update

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...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: kernel security update

An update for kernel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.4 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...

(RHSA-2018:0011) Important: kernel security update

The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system. Security Fixes: An industry-wide issue was found in the way many modern microprocessor designs have implemented speculative execution of instructions a commonly used performance optimization. There are three...

(RHSA-2018:0007) Important: kernel security update

The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system. Security Fixes: An industry-wide issue was found in the way many modern microprocessor designs have implemented speculative execution of instructions a commonly used performance optimization. There are three...