Ubuntu 12.04 LTS : linux vulnerabilities (USN-2840-1)

Dmitry Vyukov discovered that the Linux kernel's keyring handler attempted to garbage collect incompletely instantiated keys. A local unprivileged attacker could use this to cause a denial of service system crash. CVE-2015-7872 Jan Beulich discovered that the KVM svm hypervisor implementation in...

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS : linux-lts-trusty vulnerabilities (USN-2841-2)

Jan Beulich discovered that the KVM svm hypervisor implementation in the Linux kernel did not properly catch Debug exceptions on AMD processors. An attacker in a guest virtual machine could use this to cause a denial of service system crash in the host OS. CVE-2015-8104 Guoyong Gang discovered th...

Ubuntu 15.10 : linux vulnerabilities (USN-2843-1)

Jan Beulich discovered that the KVM svm hypervisor implementation in the Linux kernel did not properly catch Debug exceptions on AMD processors. An attacker in a guest virtual machine could use this to cause a denial of service system crash in the host OS. CVE-2015-8104 Guoyong Gang discovered th...

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : Linux kernel (Vivid HWE) vulnerabilities (USN-2842-2)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-2842-2 advisory. Jan Beulich discovered that the KVM svm hypervisor implementation in the Linux kernel did not properly catch Debug exceptions on AMD processors. An...

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : Linux kernel (Utopic HWE) vulnerabilities (USN-2844-1)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-2844-1 advisory. Jan Beulich discovered that the KVM svm hypervisor implementation in the Linux kernel did not properly catch Debug exceptions on AMD processors. An...

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : GRUB vulnerability (USN-2836-1)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-2836-1 advisory. Hector Marco and Ismael Ripoll discovered that GRUB incorrectly handled the backspace key when configured to use authentication. A local attacker could use this...

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : Git vulnerability (USN-2835-1)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-2835-1 advisory. Blake Burkhart discovered that the Git git-remote-ext helper incorrectly handled recursive clones of git repositories. A remote attacker could possibly use this...

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This plugin uniquely identifies the remote host by reading a UUID from a file or by writing a UUID to a file. Tenable products, such as Tenable.io and SecurityCenter, use this UUID for identifying scan targets for more accurate historical results and license counts. C Tenable Network Security, In...

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : Bind vulnerability (USN-2837-1)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-2837-1 advisory. It was discovered that Bind incorrectly handled responses with malformed class attributes. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause Bind to crash, resultin...

VMSA-2015-0009:VMware vCenter Server updates address an HIGH reflected cross-site scripting issue

VMSA-2015-0009.5 VMware product updates address a critical deserialization vulnerability VMware Security Advisory VMware Security Advisory Advisory ID: VMSA-2015-0009.5 VMware Security Advisory Synopsis: VMware product updates address a critical deserialization vulnerability VMware Security...

SUSE SLES12 Security Update : java-1_7_1-ibm (SUSE-SU-2015:2168-2) (FREAK)

The java-171-ibm package was updated to versioin 7.1-3.20 to fix several security and non security issues : - bnc955131: Version update to 7.1-3.20: CVE-2015-4734 CVE-2015-4803 CVE-2015-4805 CVE-2015-4806 CVE-2015-4810 CVE-2015-4835 CVE-2015-4840 CVE-2015-4842 CVE-2015-4843 CVE-2015-4844...

Oracle Linux 5 : openssl (ELSA-2015-2616)

The remote Oracle Linux 5 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ELSA-2015-2616 advisory. - fix CVE-2014-3570 - Bignum squaring may produce incorrect results - fix CVE-2014-3571 - DTLS segmentation fault in dtls1getrecord - fix CVE-2014-3572 - ECDHE...

Oracle Linux 6 / 7 : Unbreakable Enterprise kernel (ELSA-2015-3107)

The remote Oracle Linux 6 / 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2015-3107 advisory. - KVM: svm: unconditionally intercept DB Paolo Bonzini Orabug: 22333698 CVE-2015-8104 - KVM: x86: work around infinite loop in microcode when AC is...

Debian DLA-367-1 : kdelibs security update

It has been reported that kdelibs uses the insecure mktemp function to create the temporary directory it uses to host user-specific sockets. It is thus possible for another user to hijack this temporary directory and gain socket accesses it should not have. In Debian 6 'Squeeze', this issue has...

Debian DLA-365-1 : foomatic-filters security update

It was discovered that there was an injection vulnerability in foomatic-filters which is used by printer spoolers to convert incoming PostScript data into the printer's native format. For Debian 6 Squeeze, this issue has been fixed in foomatic-filters version 4.0.5-6+squeeze2+deb6u11 NOTE: Tenabl...

Debian DLA-362-1 : dhcpcd security update

Guido Vranken discovered several memory-related vulnerabilities while fuzzing DHCP messages sent to dhcpcd. For Debian 6 'Squeeze', those issues have been fixed in version 1:3.2.3-5+squeeze2. CVE-2012-6698 Out-of-bounds write with specially crafted DHCP messages. CVE-2012-6699 Out-of-bounds read...

SUSE SLED11 / SLES11 Security Update : libmspack (SUSE-SU-2015:2215-1)

libmspack was updated to fix several security vulnerabilities. - Fix NULL pointer dereference on a crafted CAB. bsc934524, CVE-2014-9732 - Fix denial of service while processing crafted CHM file. bsc934525, CVE-2015-4467 - Fix denial of service while processing crafted CHM file. bsc934529,...

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : libsndfile vulnerabilities (USN-2832-1)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-2832-1 advisory. It was discovered that libsndfile incorrectly handled memory when parsing malformed files. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause libsndfile to...

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : cups-filters vulnerability (USN-2831-1)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-2831-1 advisory. Michal Kowalczyk discovered that the cups-filters foomatic-rip filter incorrectly stripped shell escape characters. A remote attacker could possibly use this issu...

Oracle Linux 6 : libxml2 (ELSA-2015-2549)

The remote Oracle Linux 6 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2015-2549 advisory. - CVE-2015-7941 Cleanup conditional section error handling - CVE-2015-8317 Fail parsing early on if encoding conversion failed - CVE-2015-7942 Another...