Ubuntu 16.04 LTS : Linux kernel (Azure) vulnerabilities (USN-3678-2)

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-3678-2 advisory. Wen Xu discovered that the ext4 filesystem implementation in the Linux kernel did not properly handle corrupted meta data in some situations. An attacker...

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS : GnuPG vulnerabilities (USN-3675-1)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-3675-1 advisory. Marcus Brinkmann discovered that during decryption or verification, GnuPG did not properly filter out terminal sequences when...

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS : Linux kernel vulnerabilities (USN-3676-1)

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-3676-1 advisory. Wen Xu discovered that the ext4 filesystem implementation in the Linux kernel did not properly handle corrupted meta data in some situations. An attacker...

Debian DSA-4221-1 : libvncserver - security update

Alexander Peslyak discovered that insufficient input sanitising of RFB packets in LibVNCServer could result in the disclosure of memory contents. C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from Debian Security Advisory DSA-4221. The text...

Fedora 27 : qt3 (2018-0a0da2f3b7)

This update fixes CVE-2016-10040, a stack overflow in QXmlSimpleReader due to a too lenient entityCharacterLimit in our version of the patch for CVE-2013-4549. The limit was increased from the upstream 1024 to 65536 to address QTBUG-35459, an issue where the security fix was breaking existing...

SUSE SLES11 Security Update : xen (SUSE-SU-2018:1603-1) (Meltdown) (Spectre)

This update for xen fixes several issues. These security issues were fixed : - CVE-2018-3639: Prevent attackers with local user access from extracting information via a side-channel analysis, aka Speculative Store Bypass SSB, Variant 4 bsc1092631. - CVE-2017-5753,CVE-2017-5715,CVE-2017-5754:...

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS : Unbound vulnerability (USN-3673-1)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-3673-1 advisory. Ralph Dolmans and Karst Koymans discovered that Unbound did not properly handle certain NSEC records. An attacker could use this to to pro...

Fortinet FortiGate <= 5.2.x / 5.4.x < 5.4.9 / 5.6.x < 5.6.3 Multiple Vulnerabilities (FG-IR-17-231, FG-IR-17-245 and FG-IR-17-172)

The remote host is running FortiOS 5.2.x or prior, 5.4.x prior to 5.4.9, or 5.6.x prior to 5.6.3. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities. C Tenable Network Security, Inc. include'compat.inc'; if description scriptid110415; scriptversion"1.9";...

SUSE SLES12 Security Update : kernel (SUSE-SU-2018:1509-1)

This update for the Linux Kernel 3.12.74-606469 fixes several issues. The following security issues were fixed : - CVE-2017-13166: An elevation of privilege vulnerability in the kernel v4l2 video driver was fixed. bsc1085447. - CVE-2018-8897: A statement in the System Programming Guide of the Int...

SUSE SLES12 Security Update : kernel (SUSE-SU-2018:1528-1)

This update for the Linux Kernel 3.12.74-606482 fixes several issues. The following security issues were fixed : - CVE-2017-13166: An elevation of privilege vulnerability in the kernel v4l2 video driver was fixed. bsc1085447. - CVE-2018-8897: A statement in the System Programming Guide of the Int...

SUSE SLES12 Security Update : kernel (SUSE-SU-2018:1543-1)

This update for the Linux Kernel 3.12.61-52119 fixes several issues. The following security issues were fixed : - CVE-2017-13166: An elevation of privilege vulnerability in the kernel v4l2 video driver was fixed. bsc1085447. - CVE-2018-8897: A statement in the System Programming Guide of the Inte...

Debian DLA-1392-1 : linux security update

Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Linux kernel that may lead to a denial of service. CVE-2018-1093 Wen Xu reported that a crafted ext4 filesystem image could trigger an out-of-bounds read in the ext4validblockbitmap function. A local user able to mount arbitrary filesystems coul...

Debian DLA-1390-1 : procps security update

The Qualys Research Labs discovered multiple vulnerabilities in procps, a set of command line and full screen utilities for browsing procfs. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems : CVE-2018-1122 top read its configuration from the current working...

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS : Liblouis vulnerabilities (USN-3669-1)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-3669-1 advisory. It was discovered that Liblouis incorrectly handled certain files. An attacker could possibly use this to cause a denial of...

Fedora 27 : 1:xmlrpc (2018-6e6f1003d6)

Security fix for CVE-2016-5003, CVE-2016-5002 Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system website. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues...

Virtuozzo 7 : readykernel-patch (VZA-2018-038)

According to the version of the vzkernel package and the readykernel-patch installed, the Virtuozzo installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerabilities : - Linux kernel before version 4.16-rc7 is vulnerable to a null pointer dereference in dccpwritexmit function in...

Fedora 27 : poppler (2018-26fcc67bfd)

Security fix for CVE-2017-18267. Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system website. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues. %NASLMINLEVEL 703...

VMware Horizon View Client 4.x < 4.8.0 Privilege Escalation Vulnerability (VMSA-2018-0014)

The version of VMware Horizon View Client installed on the remote host is 4.x prior to 4.8.0. It is, therefore, affected by a privilege escalation vulnerability. Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number. C Tenab...

Fedora 27 : ca-certificates (2018-ed35b82337)

This is an update to version 2.24 of the Mozilla CA trust list, which has been published as part of the NSS 3.37 release. Please refer to the upstream release notes for the changes: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Projects/NSS/NSS3.37 releasenotes Note that Tenable Network Securi...

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS : Oslo middleware vulnerability (USN-3666-1)

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-3666-1 advisory. Divya K Konoor discovered Oslo middleware was vulnerable to an information disclosure. A local attacker could exploit this flaw to obtain sensitive information fr...