Kernel: powerpc: kvm: Infinite loop via H_CEDE hypercall when running under hypervisor-mode

arch/powerpc/kvm/book3shvrmhandlers.S in the Linux kernel through 4.7 on PowerPC platforms, when CONFIGKVMBOOK3S64HV is enabled, allows guest OS users to cause a denial of service host OS infinite loop by making a HCEDE hypercall during the existence of a suspended transaction...

Kernel: powerpc: tm: crash via exec system call on PPC

A vulnerability in the handling of Transactional Memory on powerpc systems was found. An unprivileged local user can crash the kernel by starting a transaction, suspending it, and then calling any of the exec class system calls...

kernel: incorrect restoration of machine specific registers from userspace

A flaw was found in the Linux kernel which could cause a kernel panic when restoring machine specific registers on the PowerPC platform. Incorrect transactional memory state registers could inadvertently change the call path on return from userspace and cause the kernel to enter an unknown state...

kernel: incorrect restoration of machine specific registers from userspace

A flaw was found in the Linux kernel which could cause a kernel panic when restoring machine specific registers on the PowerPC platform. Incorrect transactional memory state registers could inadvertently change the call path on return from userspace and cause the kernel to enter an unknown state...

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS : Linux kernel vulnerabilities (USN-3084-1)

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-3084-1 advisory. Pengfei Wang discovered a race condition in the audit subsystem in the Linux kernel. A local attacker could use this to corrupt audit logs or disrupt...

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : Linux kernel (Xenial HWE) vulnerabilities (USN-3084-2)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-3084-2 advisory. USN-3084-1 fixed vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel for Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. This update provides the corresponding updates for the Linux Hardware Enableme...

USN-3084-4: Linux kernel (Qualcomm Snapdragon) vulnerabilities

Pengfei Wang discovered a race condition in the audit subsystem in the Linux kernel. A local attacker could use this to corrupt audit logs or disrupt system-call auditing. CVE-2016-6136 It was discovered that the powerpc and powerpc64 hypervisor-mode KVM implementation in the Linux kernel for did...

USN-3084-2 linux-lts-xenial vulnerabilities

USN-3084-1 fixed vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel for Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. This update provides the corresponding updates for the Linux Hardware Enablement HWE kernel from Ubuntu 16.04 LTS for Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. Pengfei Wang discovered a race condition in the audit subsystem in the Linux kernel. A...

USN-3084-1 linux vulnerabilities

Pengfei Wang discovered a race condition in the audit subsystem in the Linux kernel. A local attacker could use this to corrupt audit logs or disrupt system-call auditing. CVE-2016-6136 It was discovered that the powerpc and powerpc64 hypervisor-mode KVM implementation in the Linux kernel for did...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-3070-3)

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...

SUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : kernel (SUSE-SU-2016:2105-1)

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 SP1 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 fo...

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : Linux kernel (Xenial HWE) vulnerabilities (USN-3070-4)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-3070-4 advisory. USN-3070-1 fixed vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel for Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. This update provides the corresponding updates for the Linux Hardware Enableme...

USN-3070-4: Linux kernel (Xenial HWE) vulnerabilities

USN-3070-1 fixed vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel for Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. This update provides the corresponding updates for the Linux Hardware Enablement HWE kernel from Ubuntu 16.04 LTS for Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. A missing permission check when settings ACLs was discovered in nfsd. A local user cou...

USN-3070-4 linux-lts-xenial vulnerabilities

USN-3070-1 fixed vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel for Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. This update provides the corresponding updates for the Linux Hardware Enablement HWE kernel from Ubuntu 16.04 LTS for Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. A missing permission check when settings ACLs was discovered in nfsd. A local user cou...

USN-3070-3 linux-snapdragon vulnerabilities

A missing permission check when settings ACLs was discovered in nfsd. A local user could exploit this flaw to gain access to any file by setting an ACL. CVE-2016-1237 Kangjie Lu discovered an information leak in the Reliable Datagram Sockets RDS implementation in the Linux kernel. A local attacke...

USN-3070-2 linux-raspi2 vulnerabilities

A missing permission check when settings ACLs was discovered in nfsd. A local user could exploit this flaw to gain access to any file by setting an ACL. CVE-2016-1237 Kangjie Lu discovered an information leak in the Reliable Datagram Sockets RDS implementation in the Linux kernel. A local attacke...

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : Linux kernel vulnerabilities (USN-3071-1)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-3071-1 advisory. Kangjie Lu discovered an information leak in the Reliable Datagram Sockets RDS implementation in the Linux kernel. A local attacker could use this to...

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS : linux-lts-trusty vulnerabilities (USN-3071-2)

USN-3071-1 fixed vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel for Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. This update provides the corresponding updates for the Linux Hardware Enablement HWE kernel from Ubuntu 14.04 LTS for Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. Kangjie Lu discovered an information leak in the Reliable Datagram Sockets RDS...

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...

USN-3071-1 linux vulnerabilities

Kangjie Lu discovered an information leak in the Reliable Datagram Sockets RDS implementation in the Linux kernel. A local attacker could use this to obtain potentially sensitive information from kernel memory. CVE-2016-5244 Yue Cao et al discovered a flaw in the TCP implementation's handling of...