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

An update for kernel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.3 Extended Update Support. 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...

OracleVM 3.4 : Unbreakable / etc (OVMSA-2018-0012) (Spectre)

The remote OracleVM system is missing necessary patches to address critical security updates : - Revert 'kernel.spec: Require the new microcodectl.' Brian Maly - xen-blkback: add pendingreq allocation stats Ankur Arora Orabug: 27386890 - xen-blkback: move indirect req allocation out-of-line Ankur...

Unbreakable Enterprise kernel security and bugfix update

4.1.12-112.14.1 - ext4: fix off-by-one on max nrpages in ext4findunwrittenpgoff Eryu Guan Orabug: 27233471 4.1.12-112.13.1 - cgroup: make sure a parent css isnt offlined before its children Tejun Heo Orabug: 27179269 4.1.12-112.12.1 - ctf: allow dwarf2ctf to run as root but produce no output Nick...

Oracle Linux 6 / 7 : Unbreakable Enterprise kernel (ELSA-2017-3657)

The remote Oracle Linux 6 / 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2017-3657 advisory. - mm: Tighten x86 /dev/mem with zeroing reads Kees Cook Orabug: 26675925 CVE-2017-7889 - more biomapuseriov leak fixes Al Viro Orabug: 27069042...

kernel security and bug fix update

3.10.0-693.11.1.OL7 - Oracle Linux certificates Alexey Petrenko - Oracle Linux RHCK Module Signing Key was compiled into kernel [email protected] - Update x509.genkey bug 24817676 3.10.0-693.11.1 - powerpc perf: Fix book3s kernel to userspace backtraces Gustavo...

SUSE-SU-2017:3076-1 Security update for the Linux Kernel (Live Patch 2 for SLE 12 SP3)

This update for the Linux Kernel 4.4.82-66 fixes several issues. The following security issues were fixed: - CVE-2017-15649: net/packet/afpacket.c in the Linux kernel allowed local users to gain privileges via crafted system calls that trigger mishandling of packetfanout data structures, because ...

SUSE-SU-2017:3072-1 Security update for the Linux Kernel (Live Patch 1 for SLE 12 SP3)

This update for the Linux Kernel 4.4.82-63 fixes several issues. The following security issues were fixed: - CVE-2017-15649: net/packet/afpacket.c in the Linux kernel allowed local users to gain privileges via crafted system calls that trigger mishandling of packetfanout data structures, because ...

OracleVM 3.4 : Unbreakable / etc (OVMSA-2017-0167)

The remote OracleVM system is missing necessary patches to address critical security updates : - Revert 'drivers/char/mem.c: deny access in open operation when securelevel is set' Brian Maly Orabug: 27037811 - xfs: use dedicated log worker wq to avoid deadlock with cil wq Brian Foster Orabug:...

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : Linux kernel vulnerabilities (USN-3470-1)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-3470-1 advisory. Qian Zhang discovered a heap-based buffer overflow in the tipcmsgbuild function in the Linux kernel. A local attacker could use to cause a denial of...

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS : Linux kernel vulnerabilities (USN-3469-1)

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-3469-1 advisory. Anthony Perard discovered that the Xen virtual block driver did not properly initialize some data structures before passing them to user space. A local...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-3469-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2017 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...

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS : Linux kernel (GCP) vulnerabilities (USN-3468-3)

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-3468-3 advisory. It was discovered that the KVM subsystem in the Linux kernel did not properly bound guest IRQs. A local attacker in a guest VM could use this to cause a...

Ubuntu 17.04 : linux, linux-raspi2 vulnerabilities (USN-3468-1)

It was discovered that the KVM subsystem in the Linux kernel did not properly bound guest IRQs. A local attacker in a guest VM could use this to cause a denial of service host system crash. CVE-2017-1000252 It was discovered that the Flash-Friendly File System f2fs implementation in the Linux...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-3468-3)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2017 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...

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS : Linux kernel (HWE) vulnerabilities (USN-3468-2)

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-3468-2 advisory. USN-3468-1 fixed vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel for Ubuntu 17.04. This update provides the corresponding updates for the Linux Hardware Enablement H...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-3470-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2017 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...

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : Linux kernel (Xenial HWE) vulnerabilities (USN-3469-2)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-3469-2 advisory. USN-3469-1 fixed vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel for Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. This update provides the corresponding updates for the Linux Hardware Enableme...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-3468-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2017 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-3470-2: Linux kernel (Trusty HWE) vulnerabilities

USN-3470-1 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 ESM. Qian Zhang discovered a heap-based buffer overflow in the tipcmsgbuild function in the...

USN-3469-2 linux-lts-xenial vulnerabilities

USN-3469-1 fixed vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel for Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. This update provides the corresponding updates for the Linux Hardware Enablement HWE kernel from Ubuntu 16.04 LTS for Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. Anthony Perard discovered that the Xen virtual block driver did not properly initializ...