Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: kernel-rt security and bug fix update

An update for kernel-rt is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8. 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...

kernel security, bug fix, and enhancement update

An update is available for kernel. This update affects Rocky Linux 8. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE list The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating...

RLSA-2022:1988 Important: kernel security, bug fix, and enhancement update

The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system. Security Fixes: kernel: fget: check that the fd still exists after getting a ref to it CVE-2021-4083 kernel: avoid cyclic entity chains due to malformed USB descriptors CVE-2020-0404 kernel: speculation on...

RLSA-2022:1975 Important: kernel-rt security and bug fix update

The kernel-rt packages provide the Real Time Linux Kernel, which enables fine-tuning for systems with extremely high determinism requirements. Security Fixes: kernel: fget: check that the fd still exists after getting a ref to it CVE-2021-4083 kernel: avoid cyclic entity chains due to malformed U...

kernel: NULL pointer dereferences in ov511_mode_init_regs and ov518_mode_init_regs in drivers/media/usb/gspca/ov519.c

A flaw was found in the way the ov519 driver in the Linux kernel handled certain types of USB descriptors. This flaw allows an attacker with the ability to induce the error conditions to crash the system...

kernel: NULL pointer dereferences in ov511_mode_init_regs and ov518_mode_init_regs in drivers/media/usb/gspca/ov519.c

A flaw was found in the way the ov519 driver in the Linux kernel handled certain types of USB descriptors. This flaw allows an attacker with the ability to induce the error conditions to crash the system...

grub2: Out-of-bounds write in grub_usb_device_initialize()

A flaw was found in grub2. During USB device initialization, descriptors are read with very little bounds checking and assumes the USB device is providing sane values. If properly exploited, an attacker could trigger memory corruption leading to arbitrary code execution allowing a bypass of the...

grub2: Out-of-bounds write in grub_usb_device_initialize()

A flaw was found in grub2. During USB device initialization, descriptors are read with very little bounds checking and assumes the USB device is providing sane values. If properly exploited, an attacker could trigger memory corruption leading to arbitrary code execution allowing a bypass of the...

Denial Of Service (DoS)

kernel is vulnerable denial of service DoS. It mishandles invalid descriptors in drivers/media/usb/gspca/xirlinkcit.c...

CVE-2020-11609

A flaw was found in the way the stv06xx driver in the Linux kernel handled certain types of USB descriptors. This flaw allows an attacker with the ability to induce the error conditions to crash the system. Mitigation In order to mitigate this issue it is possible to prevent the affected code fro...

Oracle Linux 5 / 6 : Unbreakable Enterprise kernel (ELSA-2018-4145)

The remote Oracle Linux 5 / 6 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2018-4145 advisory. - x86/fpu: Make eager FPU default Mihai Carabas Orabug: 28156175 CVE-2018-3665 - ALSA: hrtimer: Fix stall by hrtimercancel Takashi Iwai Orabug:...

openSUSE: Security Advisory for kernel (openSUSE-SU-2016:1382-1)

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...

Security update for the Linux Kernel (important)

The openSUSE Leap 42.1 kernel was updated to receive various security and bugfixes. The following security bugs were fixed: - CVE-2016-2847: Limit the per-user amount of pages allocated in pipes bsc970948. - CVE-2016-3136: mctu232: add sanity checking in probe bnc970955. - CVE-2016-2188: iowarrio...

Linux kernel denial of service vulnerability (CNVD-2016-02790)

The Linux kernel is the kernel used by the operating system Linux, released by the Linux Foundation in the United States. A denial of service vulnerability exists in the file drivers/usb/serial/cypressm8.c in Linux kernel versions prior to 4.5.1. An attacker could use this vulnerability to cause ...