CVE-2016-5400

Memory leak in the airspyprobe function in drivers/media/usb/airspy/airspy.c in the airspy USB driver in the Linux kernel before 4.7 allows local users to cause a denial of service memory consumption via a crafted USB device that emulates many VFLTYPESDR or VFLTYPESUBDEV devices and performs many...

Debian DSA-3426-1 : Linux Security Update

The remote Debian host is running a version of the Linux kernel prior to 3.2.73-2+deb7u1 on Debian 7 or is running a version of the Linux kernel prior to 3.16.7-ckt20-1+deb8u1 on Debian 8. It is, therefore, affected by the following vulnerabilities : - A use-after-free error exists in the...

CVE-2016-5400

A flaw was found in the linux kernel's implementation of the airspy USB device driver in which a leak was found when a subdev or SDR are plugged into the host. An attacker can create an targeted USB device which can emulate 64 of these devices. Then by emulating an additional device which...

SUSE-SU-2016:1764-1 Security update for the Linux Kernel

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 SP1 Realtime kernel was updated to 3.12.58 to receive various security and bugfixes. The following security bugs were fixed: - CVE-2015-7566: The treoattach function in drivers/usb/serial/visor.c in the Linux kernel allowed physically proximate attackers to cause a...

SUSE-SU-2016:1707-1 Security update for the Linux Kernel

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 SP4 Realtime kernel was updated to receive various security and bugfixes. The following security bugs were fixed: - CVE-2015-1339: Memory leak in the cusechannelrelease function in fs/fuse/cuse.c in the Linux kernel allowed local users to cause a denial of service...

MGASA-2016-0232 Updated kernel-linus packages fix security vulnerabilities

This kernel-linus update provides an upgrade to the upstream 4.4 longterm kernel series, currently based on 4.4.13 and resolves at least the following security issues: The Linux kernel before 4.4.1 allows local users to bypass file-descriptor limits and cause a denial of service memory consumptio...

MGASA-2016-0233 Updated kernel-tmb packages fix security vulnerabilities

This kernel-tmb update provides an upgrade to the upstream 4.4 longterm kernel series, currently based on 4.4.13 and resolves at least the following security issues: The Linux kernel before 4.4.1 allows local users to bypass file-descriptor limits and cause a denial of service memory consumption ...

CVE-2016-2538

Multiple integer overflows in the USB Net device emulator hw/usb/dev-network.c in QEMU before 2.5.1 allow local guest OS administrators to cause a denial of service QEMU process crash or obtain sensitive host memory information via a remote NDIS control message packet that is mishandled in the 1...

MGASA-2016-0225 Updated kernel packages fix security vulnerabilities

This kernel update provides an upgrade to the upstream 4.4 longterm kernel series, currently based on 4.4.13 and resolves at least the following security issues: The Linux kernel before 4.4.1 allows local users to bypass file-descriptor limits and cause a denial of service memory consumption by...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-2996-1)

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...

USN-3000-1 linux-lts-utopic vulnerabilities

Justin Yackoski discovered that the Atheros L2 Ethernet Driver in the Linux kernel incorrectly enables scatter/gather I/O. A remote attacker could use this to obtain potentially sensitive information from kernel memory. CVE-2016-2117 Jann Horn discovered that eCryptfs improperly attempted to use...

USN-2997-1: Linux kernel (OMAP4) vulnerabilities

Jann Horn discovered that eCryptfs improperly attempted to use the mmap handler of a lower filesystem that did not implement one, causing a recursive page fault to occur. A local unprivileged attacker could use to cause a denial of service system crash or possibly execute arbitrary code with...

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : Linux kernel (Xenial HWE) vulnerabilities (USN-3005-1)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-3005-1 advisory. Justin Yackoski discovered that the Atheros L2 Ethernet Driver in the Linux kernel incorrectly enables scatter/gather I/O. A remote attacker could use th...

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS : linux vulnerabilities (USN-2996-1)

Jann Horn discovered that eCryptfs improperly attempted to use the mmap handler of a lower filesystem that did not implement one, causing a recursive page fault to occur. A local unprivileged attacker could use to cause a denial of service system crash or possibly execute arbitrary code with...

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS : Linux kernel vulnerabilities (USN-3006-1)

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-3006-1 advisory. Justin Yackoski discovered that the Atheros L2 Ethernet Driver in the Linux kernel incorrectly enables scatter/gather I/O. A remote attacker could use th...

PT-2016-5973 · Linux +3 · Linux Kernel +3

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Linux kernel versions prior to 4.7 Description: The issue concerns the proc connectinfo function in the Linux kernel, which fails to initialize a certain data structure. This allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel stac...

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : Linux kernel vulnerabilities (USN-2968-1)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-2968-1 advisory. Ralf Spenneberg discovered that the Aiptek Tablet USB device driver in the Linux kernel did not properly validate the endpoints reported by the device. A...

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS : linux-lts-trusty vulnerabilities (USN-2968-2)

USN-2968-1 fixed vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel for Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. This update provides the corresponding updates for the Linux Hardware Enablement HWE kernel from Ubuntu 14.04 LTS for Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. Ralf Spenneberg discovered that the Aiptek Tablet USB device driver in the Linux kerne...

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : Linux kernel (Utopic HWE) vulnerabilities (USN-2969-1)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-2969-1 advisory. Ralf Spenneberg discovered that the Aiptek Tablet USB device driver in the Linux kernel did not properly validate the endpoints reported by the device. A...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-2971-3)

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...