USN-1945-1: Linux kernel (OMAP4) vulnerabilities

A denial of service flaw was discovered in the Btrfs file system in the Linux kernel. A local user could cause a denial of service by creating a large number of files with names that have the same CRC32 hash value. CVE-2012-5374 A denial of service flaw was discovered in the Btrfs file system in...

USN-1944-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

A denial of service flaw was discovered in the Btrfs file system in the Linux kernel. A local user could cause a denial of service by creating a large number of files with names that have the same CRC32 hash value. CVE-2012-5374 A denial of service flaw was discovered in the Btrfs file system in...

USN-1938-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Vasily Kulikov discovered a flaw in the Linux Kernel's perf tool that allows specified to be run as root. A local could exploit this flaw to run commands as root when using the perf tool. user could exploit this CVE-2013-1060 A flaw was discovered in the Xen subsystem of the Linux kernel when it...

Linux Gather Virtual Environment Detection

This module attempts to determine whether the system is running inside of a virtual environment and if so, which one. This module supports detection of Hyper-V, VMWare, VirtualBox, Xen, Bhyve and QEMU/KVM. This module requires Metasploit: https://metasploit.com/download Current source:...

Amazon Linux AMI : kernel (ALAS-2012-34)

The Linux kernel before 3.2.2 does not properly restrict SGIO ioctl calls, which allows local users to bypass intended restrictions on disk read and write operations by sending a SCSI command to 1 a partition block device or 2 an LVM volume. C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text a...

kernel security and bug fix update

2.6.32-358.18.1 - x86 perf/x86: Fix offcorersp valid mask for SNB/IVB Nikola Pajkovsky 971314 971315 CVE-2013-2146 - net br: fix schedule while atomic issue in brfeaturesrecompute Jiri Pirko 990464 980876 - scsi isci: Fix a race condition in the SSP task management path David Milburn 990470 97860...

kernel security and bug fix update

kernel 2.6.18-348.16.1.0.1 - oprofile x86, mm: Add getuserpagesfast orabug 14277030 - oprofile export getuserpagesfast function orabug 14277030 - oprofile oprofile, x86: Fix nmi-unsafe callgraph support orabug 14277030 - oprofile oprofile: use KMNMI slot for kmapatomic orabug 14277030 - oprofile...

kernel security and bug fix update

2.6.32-358.14.1 - x86 apic: Add probe for apicflat Prarit Bhargava 975086 953342 2.6.32-358.13.1 - wireless b43: stop format string leaking into error msgs John Linville 971387 971389 CVE-2013-2852 - pci make sriov work with hotplug remove Takahiro MUNEDA 973555 965002 - net rtnl: fix info leak o...

Oracle Linux 5 : kernel (ELSA-2009-1670)

The remote Oracle Linux 5 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2009-1670 advisory. - nfs v4: fix setting lock on open file with no state Jeff Layton 533114 533115 CVE-2009-3726 - drm r128: check for init on all ioctls that require it...

Oracle Linux 6 : qemu-kvm (ELSA-2012-0050)

The remote Oracle Linux 6 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ELSA-2012-0050 advisory. - Resolves: bz772081 EMBARGOED CVE-2012-0029 qemu-kvm: e1000: processtxdesc legacy mode packets heap overflow rhel-6.2.z - CVE: CVE-2011-4127 - Resolves: bz7677...

Oracle Linux 4 : kernel (ELSA-2010-0936)

From Red Hat Security Advisory 2010:0936 : Updated kernel packages that fix two security issues and multiple bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having important security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVS...

Oracle Linux 5 : xen (ELSA-2011-1401)

The remote Oracle Linux 5 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ELSA-2011-1401 advisory. 3.0.3-132.el57.2 - Release device backends before restarting guest on the destination machine rhbz 743850 - Fix SCSI buffer overflow and disable SCSI CD-ROMs rh...

Oracle Linux 5 / 6 : Unbreakable Enterprise kernel (ELSA-2013-2523)

The remote Oracle Linux 5 / 6 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ELSA-2013-2523 advisory. - block: default SCSI command filter does not accomodate commands overlap across device classes Jamie Iles Orabug: 16387137 CVE-2012-4542 - KVM: x86: Conver...

Oracle Linux 5 : kernel (ELSA-2010-0046)

The remote Oracle Linux 5 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2010-0046 advisory. - firewire ohci: handle receive packets with zero data Jay Fenlason 547241 547242 CVE-2009-4138 - fs respect flag in docoredump Danny Feng 544188 54418...

Oracle Linux 4 : kernel (ELSA-2009-1211)

From Red Hat Security Advisory 2009:1211 : Updated kernel packages that fix several security issues and several bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4. This update has been rated as having important security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team. The kernel packages contain...

Oracle Linux 5 : kernel (ELSA-2011-0833)

The remote Oracle Linux 5 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2011-0833 advisory. - scsi mpt2sas: prevent heap overflows and unchecked access Tomas Henzl 694526 694527 CVE-2011-1495 CVE-2011-1494 - net bridge/netfilter: fix ebtables...

Oracle Linux 5 : scsi-target-utils (ELSA-2010-0518)

The remote Oracle Linux 5 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ELSA-2010-0518 advisory. 0.0-6.20091205snap.3 - Fix buffer overflow in isns scn handling CVE-2010-2221 Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Oracle Lin...

Oracle Linux 5 : kernel (ELSA-2012-0150)

The remote Oracle Linux 5 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ELSA-2012-0150 advisory. - fs jbd2: clear BHDelay & BHUnwritten in journalunmapbuffer Eric Sandeen 783284 CVE-2011-4086 - fs epoll: workarounds to preserve kernel ABI Jason Baron 681692...

Oracle Linux 5 / 6 : scsi-target-utils (ELSA-2011-0332)

The remote Oracle Linux 5 / 6 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ELSA-2011-0332 advisory. 1.0.4-3.1 - fix the buffer overflow bug before iscsi login CVE-2011-0001 Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Oracle Linu...

Oracle Linux 5 / 6 : Unbreakable Enterprise kernel (ELSA-2012-2022)

Description of changes: Avoid bug caused by corrupted Ext4 filesystem. When mounting an ext4 filesystem, the kernel was not checking for zero length extents. This would cause a BUGON assertion failure in the log. NULL pointer dereference in the SCSI subsystem. A NULL dereference may occur if a SC...