Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : Linux kernel vulnerabilities (USN-2823-1)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-2823-1 advisory. It was discovered that the SCTP protocol implementation in the Linux kernel performed an incorrect sequence of protocol-initialization steps. A local...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-2824-1)

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...

USN-2824-1: Linux kernel (Utopic HWE) vulnerability

Dmitry Vyukov discovered that the Linux kernel's keyring handler attempted to garbage collect incompletely instantiated keys. A local unprivileged attacker could use this to cause a denial of service system crash...

USN-2824-1 linux-lts-utopic vulnerability

Dmitry Vyukov discovered that the Linux kernel's keyring handler attempted to garbage collect incompletely instantiated keys. A local unprivileged attacker could use this to cause a denial of service system crash...

USN-2823-1 linux vulnerabilities

It was discovered that the SCTP protocol implementation in the Linux kernel performed an incorrect sequence of protocol-initialization steps. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service system crash. CVE-2015-5283 Dmitry Vyukov discovered that the Linux kernel's keyring handler...

USN-2823-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

It was discovered that the SCTP protocol implementation in the Linux kernel performed an incorrect sequence of protocol-initialization steps. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service system crash. CVE-2015-5283 Dmitry Vyukov discovered that the Linux kernel's keyring handler...

Amazon Linux AMI : kernel (ALAS-2015-610)

A denial of service vulnerability was discovered in the keyring function's garbage collector in the Linux kernel. The flaw allowed any local user account to trigger a kernel panic. CVE-2015-7872 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted...

RHEL 7 : kernel (RHSA-2015:1778)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2015:1778 advisory. The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system. A flaw was found in the kernel's implementation of the...

Mageia: Security Advisory (MGASA-2015-0386)

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...

RHEL 6 : kernel-rt (RHSA-2015:1787)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 6 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2015:1787 advisory. The kernel-rt packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system. Two flaws were found in the way the Linux kernel's...

CentOS Update for kernel CESA-2015:1778 centos7

Check the version of kernel 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 scriptoid"1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.882285";...

Scientific Linux Security Update : kernel on SL7.x x86_64 (20150915)

A flaw was found in the kernel's implementation of the Berkeley Packet Filter BPF. A local attacker could craft BPF code to crash the system by creating a situation in which the JIT compiler would fail to correctly optimize the JIT image on the last pass. This would lead to the CPU executing...

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

Updated kernel packages that fix multiple security issues 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. Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base scores, which give detailed severity...

kernel: denial of service due to memory leak in add_key()

It was found that the Linux kernel's keyring implementation would leak memory when adding a key to a keyring via the addkey function. A local attacker could use this flaw to exhaust all available memory on the system...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: kernel-rt security, bug fix, and enhancement update

Updated kernel-rt packages that fix multiple security issues, several bugs, and add various enhancements are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having Important security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base scores, whic...

kernel: denial of service due to memory leak in add_key()

It was found that the Linux kernel's keyring implementation would leak memory when adding a key to a keyring via the addkey function. A local attacker could use this flaw to exhaust all available memory on the system...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: kernel-rt security, bug fix, and enhancement update

Updated kernel-rt packages that fix multiple security issues, several bugs, and add various enhancements are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having Important security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base scores, whic...

kernel: denial of service due to memory leak in add_key()

It was found that the Linux kernel's keyring implementation would leak memory when adding a key to a keyring via the addkey function. A local attacker could use this flaw to exhaust all available memory on the system...

Amazon Linux: Security Advisory (ALAS-2015-574)

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...

DEBIAN-CVE-2015-1333

Memory leak in the keylinkend function in security/keys/keyring.c in the Linux kernel before 4.1.4 allows local users to cause a denial of service memory consumption via many addkey system calls that refer to existing keys...