Updated kernel packages fix security vulnerability

This kernel update is based on the upstream 4.14.106 and fixes at least the following security issue: In the Linux kernel before 4.20.14, expanddownwards in mm/mmap.c lacks a check for the mmap minimum address, which makes it easier for attackers to exploit kernel NULL pointer dereferences on...

MGASA-2019-0120 Updated kernel packages fix security vulnerability

This kernel update is based on the upstream 4.14.106 and fixes at least the following security issue: In the Linux kernel before 4.20.14, expanddownwards in mm/mmap.c lacks a check for the mmap minimum address, which makes it easier for attackers to exploit kernel NULL pointer dereferences on...

MGASA-2018-0374 Updated kernel-tmb packages fix security vulnerabilities

This kernel-tmb update is based on the upstream 4.14.69 and adds additional fixes for the L1TF and Spectre security issues. It also fixes at least the following security issues: Memory leak in the irdabind function in net/irda/afirda.c and later in drivers/staging/irda/net/afirda.c in the Linux...

Updated kernel-tmb packages fix security vulnerabilities

This kernel-tmb update is based on the upstream 4.14.69 and adds additional fixes for the L1TF and Spectre security issues. It also fixes at least the following security issues: Memory leak in the irdabind function in net/irda/afirda.c and later in drivers/staging/irda/net/afirda.c in the Linux...

Updated kernel packages fix security vulnerabilities

This kernel update is based on the upstream 4.14.69 and adds additional fixes for the L1TF and Spectre security issues. It also fixes at least the following security issues: Memory leak in the irdabind function in net/irda/afirda.c and later in drivers/staging/irda/net/afirda.c in the Linux kerne...

MGASA-2018-0346 Updated kernel-tmb packages fix security vulnerabilities

This kernel-tmb update is based on the upstream 4.14.65 and adds fixes and mitigations for the now publically known security issue affecting Intel processors called L1 Terminal Fault L1TF: Systems with microprocessors utilizing speculative execution and Intel Software Guard Extensions Intel SGX m...

Updated kernel-tmb packages fix security vulnerabilities

This kernel-tmb update is based on the upstream 4.14.65 and adds fixes and mitigations for the now publically known security issue affecting Intel processors called L1 Terminal Fault L1TF: Systems with microprocessors utilizing speculative execution and Intel Software Guard Extensions Intel SGX m...

Updated kernel packages fix security vulnerabilities

This kernel update is based on the upstream 4.14.65 and adds fixes and mitigations for the now publically known security issue affecting Intel processors called L1 Terminal Fault L1TF: Systems with microprocessors utilizing speculative execution and Intel Software Guard Extensions Intel SGX may...

MGASA-2018-0345 Updated kernel packages fix security vulnerabilities

This kernel update is based on the upstream 4.14.65 and adds fixes and mitigations for the now publically known security issue affecting Intel processors called L1 Terminal Fault L1TF: Systems with microprocessors utilizing speculative execution and Intel Software Guard Extensions Intel SGX may...

Updated kernel packages fix security vulnerabilities

This kernel update is based on the upstream 4.14.62 and fixes at least the following security issues: Security researchers from FICORA have identified a remote denial of service attack against the Linux kernel caused by inefficient implementation of TCP segment reassembly, named "SegmentSmack". A...

Updated kernel packages fix security vulnerabilities

This kernel update is based on the upstream 4.14.50 and fixes at least the following security issues: In the function sbusfbioctlhelper in drivers/video/fbdev/sbuslib.c in the Linux kernel through 4.15, an integer signedness error allows arbitrary information leakage for the FBIOPUTCMAPSPARC and...

MGASA-2018-0296 Updated kernel packages fix security vulnerabilities

This kernel update is based on the upstream 4.14.50 and fixes at least the following security issues: In the function sbusfbioctlhelper in drivers/video/fbdev/sbuslib.c in the Linux kernel through 4.15, an integer signedness error allows arbitrary information leakage for the FBIOPUTCMAPSPARC and...

MGASA-2018-0263 Updated kernel packages fix security vulnerabilities

This kernel update is based on the upstream 4.14.44 and fixes at least the following security issues: By mmaping a FUSE-backed file onto a process's memory containing command line arguments or environment strings, an attacker can cause utilities from psutils or procps such as ps, w or any other...

Updated kernel packages fix security vulnerabilities

This kernel update is based on the upstream 4.14.44 and fixes at least the following security issues: By mmaping a FUSE-backed file onto a process's memory containing command line arguments or environment strings, an attacker can cause utilities from psutils or procps such as ps, w or any other...

Updated kernel packages fix security vulnerabilities

This kernel update is based on the upstream 4.14.40 and fixes at least the following security issues: On x86, MOV SS and POP SS behave strangely if they encounter a data breakpoint. If this occurs in a KVM guest, KVM incorrectly thinks that a DB instruction was caused by the undocumented ICEBP...

MGASA-2018-0172 Updated kernel packages fix security vulnerabilities

This kernel update is based on the upstream 4.14.25 and updates the KPTI mitigation for Meltdown CVE-2017-5754 on 32bit x86. It also adds ome optimizations and improvements to mitigate some of the slowdons caused by the Meltdown CVE-2017-5754 and Spectre, variant 2 CVE-2017-5715. Other security...

Updated kernel packages fix security vulnerabilities

This kernel update is based on the upstream 4.14.25 and updates the KPTI mitigation for Meltdown CVE-2017-5754 on 32bit x86. It also adds ome optimizations and improvements to mitigate some of the slowdons caused by the Meltdown CVE-2017-5754 and Spectre, variant 2 CVE-2017-5715. Other security...

Updated kernel-tmb packages fix security vulnerabilities

This kernel-tmb update is based on the upstream 4.14.18 and adds some support for mitigating Spectre, variant 1 CVE-2017-5753 and as it is built with the retpoline-aware gcc-5.5.0-1.mga6, it now provides full retpoline mitigation for Spectre, variant 2 CVE-2017-5715. The BPF interpreter has been...

MGASA-2018-0126 Updated kernel-tmb packages fix security vulnerabilities

This kernel-tmb update is based on the upstream 4.14.18 and adds some support for mitigating Spectre, variant 1 CVE-2017-5753 and as it is built with the retpoline-aware gcc-5.5.0-1.mga6, it now provides full retpoline mitigation for Spectre, variant 2 CVE-2017-5715. The BPF interpreter has been...

Updated kernel packages fix security vulnerabilities

This kernel update is based on the upstream 4.14.18 and adds some support for mitigating Spectre, variant 1 CVE-2017-5753 and as it is built with the retpoline-aware gcc-5.5.0-1.mga6, it now provides full retpoline mitigation for Spectre, variant 2 CVE-2017-5715. WireGuard has been updated to...