kernel security and bug fix update

3.10.0-123.9.2 - Oracle Linux certificates Alexey Petrenko 3.10.0-123.9.2 - virt kvm: fix PIT timer race condition Petr Matousek 1144879 1144880 CVE-2014-3611 - virt kvm/vmx: handle invept and invvpid vm exits gracefully Petr Matousek 1145449 1116936 1144828 1144829 CVE-2014-3645 CVE-2014-3646...

CVE-2014-3688

The SCTP implementation in the Linux kernel before 3.17.4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service memory consumption by triggering a large number of chunks in an association's output queue, as demonstrated by ASCONF probes, related to net/sctp/inqueue.c and net/sctp/smstatefuns.c...

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

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

Oracle Linux 6 : kernel (ELSA-2014-1392)

The remote Oracle Linux 6 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2014-1392 advisory. - kernel futex: Fix errors in nested key ref-counting Denys Vlasenko 1094458 CVE-2014-0205 Tenable has extracted the preceding description block direct...

kernel, perf, python security update

CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-2014:1392 Updated kernel packages that fix multiple security issues, address several hundred bugs, and add numerous enhancements are now available as part of the ongoing support and maintenance of Red Hat Enterprise Linux version 6. This is the sixth regul...

Oracle Linux 5 / 6 : Unbreakable Enterprise kernel Security (ELSA-2014-3083)

The remote Oracle Linux 5 / 6 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2014-3083 advisory. - ALSA: control: Don't access controls outside of protected regions Lars-Peter Clausen Orabug: 19817787 CVE-2014-4653 CVE-2014-4654 CVE-2014-4655 -...

Oracle Linux 6 / 7 : Unbreakable Enterprise kernel (ELSA-2014-3081)

The remote Oracle Linux 6 / 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2014-3081 advisory. - ALSA: control: Don't access controls outside of protected regions Lars-Peter Clausen Orabug: 19817785 CVE-2014-4653 CVE-2014-4654 CVE-2014-4655 -...

Unbreakable Enterprise kernel security update

2.6.39-400.215.11 - ALSA: control: Don't access controls outside of protected regions Lars-Peter Clausen Orabug: 19817786 CVE-2014-4653 CVE-2014-4654 CVE-2014-4655 - ALSA: control: Fix replacing user controls Lars-Peter Clausen Orabug: 19817748 CVE-2014-4653 CVE-2014-4654 CVE-2014-4655 - kvm:...

Unbreakable Enterprise kernel security update

kernel-uek 3.8.13-44.1.3.el7uek - ALSA: control: Don't access controls outside of protected regions Lars-Peter Clausen Orabug: 19817785 CVE-2014-4653 CVE-2014-4654 CVE-2014-4655 - ALSA: control: Fix replacing user controls Lars-Peter Clausen Orabug: 19817747 CVE-2014-4653 CVE-2014-4654...

F5 Networks BIG-IP : Linux kernel vulnerability (K15317)

The sctpsfdo51Dce function in net/sctp/smstatefuns.c in the Linux kernel through 3.13.6 does not validate certain authenable and authcapable fields before making an sctpsfauthenticate call, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service NULL pointer dereference and system crash via an...

[USN-2359-1] Linux kernel vulnerabilities

========================================================================== Ubuntu Security Notice USN-2359-1 September 23, 2014 linux vulnerabilities ========================================================================== A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives: -...

Linux kernel multiple security vulnerabilities

SCTP DoS, ALSA multiple DoS and information leakage, autofs DoS...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-2358-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2014 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 12.04 LTS : linux-lts-trusty vulnerabilities (USN-2358-1)

Jack Morgenstein reported a flaw in the page handling of the KVM Kerenl Virtual Machine subsystem in the Linux kernel. A guest OS user could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service host OS memory corruption or possibly have other unspecified impact on the host OS. CVE-2014-3601 Jason...

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : Linux kernel vulnerabilities (USN-2359-1)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-2359-1 advisory. Jack Morgenstein reported a flaw in the page handling of the KVM Kerenl Virtual Machine subsystem in the Linux kernel. A guest OS user could exploit this...

USN-2359-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Jack Morgenstein reported a flaw in the page handling of the KVM Kerenl Virtual Machine subsystem in the Linux kernel. A guest OS user could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service host OS memory corruption or possibly have other unspecified impact on the host OS. CVE-2014-3601 Jason...

USN-2359-1 linux vulnerabilities

Jack Morgenstein reported a flaw in the page handling of the KVM Kerenl Virtual Machine subsystem in the Linux kernel. A guest OS user could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service host OS memory corruption or possibly have other unspecified impact on the host OS. CVE-2014-3601 Jason...

USN-2358-1: Linux kernel (Trusty HWE) vulnerabilities

Jack Morgenstein reported a flaw in the page handling of the KVM Kerenl Virtual Machine subsystem in the Linux kernel. A guest OS user could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service host OS memory corruption or possibly have other unspecified impact on the host OS. CVE-2014-3601 Jason...

Oracle Linux 6 : kernel (ELSA-2014-1167)

The remote Oracle Linux 6 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2014-1167 advisory. - kernel futex: Fix errors in nested key ref-counting Denys Vlasenko 1094457 1094458 CVE-2014-0205 - net vxlan: fix NULL pointer dereference Jiri Benc...

Scientific Linux Security Update : kernel on SL6.x i386/x86_64 (20140909)

A flaw was found in the way the Linux kernel's futex subsystem handled reference counting when requeuing futexes during futexwait. A local, unprivileged user could use this flaw to zero out the reference counter of an inode or an mm struct that backs up the memory area of the futex, which could...