SUSE SLES12 Security Update : kernel (SUSE-SU-2019:2262-1)

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 SP1 kernel was updated to receive various security and bugfixes. The following security bugs were fixed : CVE-2019-1125: Enable Spectre v1 swapgs mitigations bsc1139358. CVE-2018-20855: An issue was discovered in createqpcommon in drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx5/qp.c,...

SUSE-SU-2019:14157-1 Security update for the Linux Kernel

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 SP4 kernel was updated to receive various security and bugfixes. The following security bugs were fixed: - CVE-2019-14284: The drivers/block/floppy.c allowed a denial of service by setupformatparams division-by-zero. Two consecutive ioctls can trigger the bug: the fir...

Greenbone OS - 'Spectre SWAPGS' Gadget Vulnerability (Aug 2019)

The Linux Kernel in Greenbone OS is prone to an information disclosure vulnerability. SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2019 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 CPE =...

Meltdown and Spectre class vulnerabilities

New types of side channel attacks impact most processors including Intel, AMD, ARM, etc. These attacks allow malicious userspace processes to read kernel memory, thus potentially causing kernel sensitive information to leak...

openSUSE Security Update : the Linux Kernel (openSUSE-2019-1923)

The openSUSE Leap 15.1 kernel was updated to receive various security and bugfixes. The following security bugs were fixed : - CVE-2019-1125: Fix Spectre V1 variant memory disclosure by speculation over the SWAPGS instruction bsc1139358. - CVE-2019-10207: A NULL pointer dereference was possible i...

CentOS 6 : kernel (CESA-2019:2473)

An update for kernel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from th...

Virtuozzo 6 : parallels-server-bm-release / vzkernel / etc (VZA-2019-067)

According to the versions of the parallels-server-bm-release / vzkernel / etc packages installed, the Virtuozzo installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerabilities : - A new software page cache side channel attack scenario was discovered in operating systems that implemen...

Debian DLA-1885-1 : linux-4.9 security update

Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Linux kernel that may lead to a privilege escalation, denial of service or information leaks. CVE-2017-18509 Denis Andzakovic reported a missing type check in the IPv4 multicast routing implementation. A user with the CAPNETADMIN capability in a...

openSUSE Security Update : the Linux Kernel (openSUSE-2019-1924)

The openSUSE Leap 15.0 kernel was updated to receive various security and bugfixes. The following security bugs were fixed : - CVE-2019-1125: Fix Spectre V1 variant memory disclosure by speculation over the SWAPGS instruction bsc1139358. - CVE-2019-10207: A NULL pointer dereference was possible i...

Important kernel security update: New kernel 2.6.32-042stab140.1; Virtuozzo 6.0 Update 12 Hotfix 45 (6.0.12-3747)

This update provides a new kernel 2.6.32-042stab140.1 for Virtuozzo 6.0 based on the RHEL 6.10 kernel 2.6.32-754.18.2.el6. The new kernel inherits security fixes from the RHEL kernel and features internal fixes. Vulnerability id: CVE-2019-5489 A new software page cache side channel attack scenari...

kernel security update

4.18.0-80.7.20.OL8 - Oracle Linux certificates Alexey Petrenko - Oracle Linux RHCK Module Signing Key was added to the kernel trusted keys list olkmodsigningkey.pem Orabug: 29539237 - Update x509.genkey Orabug: 24817676 4.18.0-80.7.20 - x86 x86/entry/64: Use JMP instead of JMPQ Josh Poimboeuf...

Important kernel security update: New kernel 2.6.32-042stab140.1 for Virtuozzo Containers for Linux 4.7, Server Bare Metal 5.0

This update provides a new kernel 2.6.32-042stab140.1 for Virtuozzo Containers for Linux 4.7 and Server Bare Metal 5.0 based on the RHEL 6.10 kernel 2.6.32-754.18.2.el6. The new kernel inherits security fixes from the RHEL kernel and features internal fixes. Vulnerability id: CVE-2019-5489 A new...

kernel, perf, python security update

CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-2019:2473 An update for kernel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity...

Security update for the Linux Kernel (important)

openSUSE Security Update: Security update for the Linux Kernel Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2019:1924-1 Rating: important References: 1051510 1055117 1071995 1083647 1083710 1085030 1086103 1102247 1106061 1111666 1114279 1119222 1123959 1127034 1127315 1129770 1130972 1131281 1133021 1134097...

Security update for the Linux Kernel (important)

openSUSE Security Update: Security update for the Linux Kernel Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2019:1923-1 Rating: important References: 1051510 1055117 1071995 1083647 1083710 1085030 1086103 1102247 1103991 1103992 1104745 1106061 1109837 1111666 1112374 1114279 1119222 1123959 1127034 1127315...

[slackware-security] Slackware 14.2 kernel

New kernel packages are available for Slackware 14.2 to fix security issues. Here are the details from the Slackware 14.2 ChangeLog: patches/packages/linux-4.4.189/: Upgraded. These updates fix various bugs and many security issues, and include the Spectre v1 SWAPGS mitigations. Be sure to upgrad...

[SECURITY] [DLA 1884-1] linux security update

Package : linux Version : 3.16.72-1 CVE ID : CVE-2017-18509 CVE-2018-20836 CVE-2019-1125 CVE-2019-3900 CVE-2019-10207 CVE-2019-10638 CVE-2019-13631 CVE-2019-14283 CVE-2019-14284 Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Linux kernel that may lead to a privilege escalation, denial of...

Information Disclosure

kernel is vulnerable to information disclosure. A Spectre gadget was found in the Linux kernel's implementation of system interrupts. An attacker with local access could use this information to reveal private data through a Spectre like side channel...

Scientific Linux Security Update : kernel on SL6.x i386/x86_64 (20190813)

Security Fixes : - Kernel: page cache side channel attacks CVE-2019-5489 - kernel: Salsa20 encryption algorithm does not correctly handle zero-length inputs allowing local attackers to cause denial-of-service CVE-2017-17805 - kernel: Unprivileged users able to inspect kernel stacks of arbitrary...

kernel security and bug fix update

2.6.32-754.18.2.OL6 - Update genkey bug 25599697 2.6.32-754.18.2 - x86 x86/speculation: Enable Spectre v1 swapgs mitigations Waiman Long 1724512 CVE-2019-1125 - x86 x86/speculation: Prepare entry code for Spectre v1 swapgs mitigations Waiman Long 1724512 CVE-2019-1125 2.6.32-754.18.1 - virt xenbu...