UBUNTU-CVE-2015-5257

drivers/usb/serial/whiteheat.c in the Linux kernel before 4.2.4 allows physically proximate attackers to cause a denial of service NULL pointer dereference and OOPS or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted USB device. NOTE: this ID was incorrectly used for an Apache Cordova issue...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-2691-1)

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...

Amazon Linux: Security Advisory (ALAS-2011-22)

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...

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

Updated kernel packages that fix one security issue and several bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.5 Extended Update Support. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having Moderate security impact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a...

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : Linux kernel (Utopic HWE) vulnerabilities (USN-2689-1)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-2689-1 advisory. Andy Lutomirski discovered a flaw in the Linux kernel's handling of nested NMIs non-maskable interrupts. An unprivileged local user could exploit this fl...

Ubuntu 15.04 : linux vulnerabilities (USN-2691-1)

Andy Lutomirski discovered a flaw in the Linux kernel's handling of nested NMIs non-maskable interrupts. An unprivileged local user could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service system crash or potentially escalate their privileges. CVE-2015-3290 Colin King discovered a flaw in the addkey...

CVE-2014-9715

include/net/netfilter/nfconntrackextend.h in the netfilter subsystem in the Linux kernel before 3.14.5 uses an insufficiently large data type for certain extension data, which allows local users to cause a denial of service NULL pointer dereference and OOPS via outbound network traffic that...

SUSE SLED11 / SLES11 Security Update : kernel (SUSE-SU-2014:0189-1)

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 Service Pack 3 kernel was updated to 3.0.101 and also includes various other bug and security fixes. A new feature was added : - supported.conf: marked net/netfilter/xtset as supported bnc851066fate313309 The following security bugs have been fixed : CVE-2013-4587:...

Security update for the Linux Kernel (important)

The openSUSE 13.1 kernel was updated to fix security issues and bugs: Security issues fixed: CVE-2014-9322: A local privilege escalation in the x8664 32bit compatibility signal handling was fixed, which could be used by local attackers to crash the machine or execute code. CVE-2014-9090: The...

USN-2445-1: Linux kernel (Trusty HWE) vulnerabilities

Andy Lutomirski discovered that the Linux kernel does not properly handle faults associated with the Stack Segment SS register in the x86 architecture. A local attacker could exploit this flaw to gain administrative privileges. CVE-2014-9322 An information leak in the Linux kernel was discovered...

USN-2444-1: Linux kernel (OMAP4) vulnerabilities

Rabin Vincent, Robert Swiecki, Russell King discovered that the ftrace subsystem of the Linux kernel does not properly handle private syscall numbers. A local user could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service OOPS. CVE-2014-7826 Rabin Vincent, Robert Swiecki, Russell Kinglaw discovered a...

OracleVM 2.1 : kernel (OVMSA-2009-0009)

The remote OracleVM system is missing necessary patches to address critical security updates : CVE-2008-4307 Race condition in the dosetlk function in fs/nfs/file.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.26 allows local users to cause a denial of service crash via vectors resulting in an interrupted RPC...

USN-2420-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

A flaw was discovered in how the Linux kernel's KVM Kernel Virtual Machine subsystem handles the CR4 control register at VM entry on Intel processors. A local host OS user can exploit this to cause a denial of service kill arbitrary processes, or system disruption by leveraging /dev/kvm access...

USN-2419-1: Linux kernel (Trusty HWE) vulnerabilities

A flaw was discovered in how the Linux kernel's KVM Kernel Virtual Machine subsystem handles the CR4 control register at VM entry on Intel processors. A local host OS user can exploit this to cause a denial of service kill arbitrary processes, or system disruption by leveraging /dev/kvm access...

USN-2416-1: Linux kernel (EC2) vulnerabilities

Don Bailey discovered a flaw in the LZO decompress algorithm used by the Linux kernel. An attacker could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service memory corruption or OOPS. CVE-2014-4608 Andy Lutomirski discovered that the Linux kernel was not checking the CAPSYSADMIN when remounting...

USN-2415-1: Linux kernel vulnerability

Don Bailey discovered a flaw in the LZO decompress algorithm used by the Linux kernel. An attacker could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service memory corruption or OOPS. CVE-2014-4608 Andy Lutomirski discovered that the Linux kernel was not checking the CAPSYSADMIN when remounting...

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : Linux kernel vulnerabilities (USN-2420-1)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-2420-1 advisory. A flaw was discovered in how the Linux kernel's KVM Kernel Virtual Machine subsystem handles the CR4 control register at VM entry on Intel processors. A...

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS : linux-lts-trusty vulnerabilities (USN-2419-1)

A flaw was discovered in how the Linux kernel's KVM Kernel Virtual Machine subsystem handles the CR4 control register at VM entry on Intel processors. A local host OS user can exploit this to cause a denial of service kill arbitrary processes, or system disruption by leveraging /dev/kvm access...

Ubuntu 14.10 : linux vulnerabilities (USN-2421-1)

A flaw was discovered in how the Linux kernel's KVM Kernel Virtual Machine subsystem handles the CR4 control register at VM entry on Intel processors. A local host OS user can exploit this to cause a denial of service kill arbitrary processes, or system disruption by leveraging /dev/kvm access...

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS : linux vulnerabilities (USN-2417-1)

Nadav Amit reported that the KVM Kernel Virtual Machine mishandles noncanonical addresses when emulating instructions that change the rip Instruction Pointer. A guest user with access to I/O or the MMIO can use this flaw to cause a denial of service system crash of the guest. CVE-2014-3647 A flaw...