SUSE-SU-2016:3205-1 Security update for Linux Kernel Live Patch 9 for SLE 12 SP1

This update for the Linux Kernel 3.12.67-606418 fixes several issues. The following security bugs were fixed: - CVE-2016-8655: A race condition in the afpacket packetsetring function could be used by local attackers to crash the kernel or gain privileges bsc1012759. - CVE-2016-9555: The sctpsfoot...

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS : Linux kernel vulnerabilities (USN-3161-1)

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-3161-1 advisory. Tilman Schmidt and Sasha Levin discovered a use-after-free condition in the TTY implementation in the Linux kernel. A local attacker could use this to...

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS : Linux kernel (Raspberry Pi 2) vulnerabilities (USN-3161-3)

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-3161-3 advisory. Tilman Schmidt and Sasha Levin discovered a use-after-free condition in the TTY implementation in the Linux kernel. A local attacker could use this to...

Ubuntu 16.10 : linux vulnerabilities (USN-3162-1)

CAI Qian discovered that shared bind mounts in a mount namespace exponentially added entries without restriction to the Linux kernel's mount table. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service system crash. CVE-2016-6213 It was discovered that the KVM implementation for x86/x8664 ...

Ubuntu 16.10 : linux-raspi2 vulnerabilities (USN-3162-2)

CAI Qian discovered that shared bind mounts in a mount namespace exponentially added entries without restriction to the Linux kernel's mount table. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service system crash. CVE-2016-6213 Andreas Gruenbacher and Jan Kara discovered that the...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-3162-2)

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...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-3162-1)

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...

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS : Linux kernel (Qualcomm Snapdragon) vulnerabilities (USN-3161-4)

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-3161-4 advisory. Tilman Schmidt and Sasha Levin discovered a use-after-free condition in the TTY implementation in the Linux kernel. A local attacker could use this to...

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : Linux kernel (Xenial HWE) vulnerabilities (USN-3161-2)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-3161-2 advisory. USN-3161-1 fixed vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel for Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. This update provides the corresponding updates for the Linux Hardware Enableme...

USN-3162-2: Linux kernel (Raspberry Pi 2) vulnerabilities

CAI Qian discovered that shared bind mounts in a mount namespace exponentially added entries without restriction to the Linux kernel's mount table. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service system crash. CVE-2016-6213 Andreas Gruenbacher and Jan Kara discovered that the...

USN-3161-2: Linux kernel (Xenial HWE) vulnerabilities

USN-3161-1 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. Tilman Schmidt and Sasha Levin discovered a use-after-free condition in the TTY...

USN-3161-2 linux-lts-xenial vulnerabilities

USN-3161-1 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. Tilman Schmidt and Sasha Levin discovered a use-after-free condition in the TTY...

USN-3161-1 linux vulnerabilities

Tilman Schmidt and Sasha Levin discovered a use-after-free condition in the TTY implementation in the Linux kernel. A local attacker could use this to expose sensitive information kernel memory. CVE-2015-8964 It was discovered that the Video For Linux Two v4l2 implementation in the Linux kernel d...

OracleVM 3.3 : Unbreakable / etc (OVMSA-2016-0175)

The remote OracleVM system is missing necessary patches to address critical security updates : - Revert 'i40e: Set defport behavior for the Main VSI when in promiscuous mode' Jack Vogel Orabug: 22683573 - mlx4: avoid multiple free on idmapent Wengang Wang - xen-netfront: cast grant table referenc...

Oracle Linux 6 / 7 : Unbreakable Enterprise kernel (ELSA-2016-3651)

The remote Oracle Linux 6 / 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2016-3651 advisory. - sctp: validate chunk len before actually using it Marcelo Ricardo Leitner Orabug: 25142879 CVE-2016-9555 Tenable has extracted the preceding...

Oracle Linux 5 / 6 : Unbreakable Enterprise kernel (ELSA-2016-3652)

The remote Oracle Linux 5 / 6 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ELSA-2016-3652 advisory. - sctp: validate chunk len before actually using it Marcelo Ricardo Leitner Orabug: 25142906 CVE-2016-9555 Tenable has extracted the preceding description...

openSUSE Security Update : the Linux Kernel (openSUSE-2016-1426)

The openSUSE Leap 42.2 kernel was updated to 4.4.36 to receive various security and bugfixes. The following security bugs were fixed : - CVE-2015-1350: The VFS subsystem in the Linux kernel 3.x provides an incomplete set of requirements for setattr operations that underspecifies removing extended...

Oracle Linux 6 / 7 : Unbreakable Enterprise kernel (ELSA-2016-3648)

The remote Oracle Linux 6 / 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2016-3648 advisory. - mpi: Fix NULL ptr dereference in mpipowm ver 3 Andrey Ryabinin Orabug: 25154096 CVE-2016-8650 CVE-2016-8650 - sctp: validate chunk len before...

OracleVM 3.4 : Unbreakable / etc (OVMSA-2016-0174)

The remote OracleVM system is missing necessary patches to address critical security updates : - ocfs2: fix trans extend while free cached blocks Junxiao Bi - ocfs2: fix trans extend while flush truncate log Junxiao Bi - ocfs2: extend enough credits for freeing one truncate record while replaying...

Unbreakable Enterprise kernel security update

kernel-uek 4.1.12-61.1.22 - ocfs2: fix trans extend while free cached blocks Junxiao Bi Orabug: 25136991 - ocfs2: fix trans extend while flush truncate log Junxiao Bi Orabug: 25136991 - ocfs2: extend enough credits for freeing one truncate record while replaying truncate records Xue jiufei Orabug...