USN-3931-2 linux-hwe, linux-aws-hwe, linux-azure, linux-gcp, linux-oracle vulnerabilities

USN-3931-1 fixed vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel for Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. This update provides the corresponding updates for the Linux Hardware Enablement HWE kernel from Ubuntu 18.04 LTS for Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and for the Linux Azure kernel for Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. M. Vefa Bicakci and Andy Lutomirsk...

USN-3931-1 linux, linux-aws, linux-gcp, linux-kvm, linux-oem, linux-oracle, linux-raspi2 vulnerabilities

M. Vefa Bicakci and Andy Lutomirski discovered that the kernel did not properly set up all arguments to an error handler callback used when running as a paravirtualized guest. An unprivileged attacker in a paravirtualized guest VM could use this to cause a denial of service guest VM crash...

USN-3930-2 linux-hwe, linux-azure vulnerabilities

USN-3930-1 fixed vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel for Ubuntu 18.10. This update provides the corresponding updates for the Linux Hardware Enablement HWE kernel from Ubuntu 18.10 for Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. Mathias Payer and Hui Peng discovered a use-after-free vulnerability in the Advanced Linux Sou...

USN-3930-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Mathias Payer and Hui Peng discovered a use-after-free vulnerability in the Advanced Linux Sound Architecture ALSA subsystem. A physically proximate attacker could use this to cause a denial of service system crash. CVE-2018-19824 Shlomi Oberman, Yuli Shapiro, and Ran Menscher discovered an...

openSUSE Security Update : the Linux Kernel (openSUSE-2019-597)

The openSUSE Leap 15.0 kernel was updated to receive various security and bugfixes. The following security bugs were fixed : - CVE-2018-5390 aka 'SegmentSmack': A remote attacker even with relatively low bandwidth could have caused lots of CPU usage by triggering the worst case scenario during IP...

openSUSE Security Update : the Linux Kernel (openSUSE-2019-974)

The openSUSE Leap 15.0 kernel was updated to 4.12.14-lp150.12.28.1 to receive various security and bugfixes. The following security bugs were fixed : - CVE-2018-18281: The mremap syscall performs TLB flushes after dropping pagetable locks. If a syscall such as ftruncate removes entries from the...

openSUSE Security Update : the Linux Kernel (openSUSE-2019-893)

The openSUSE Leap 15.0 kernel was updated to receive various security and bugfixes. The following security bugs were fixed : - CVE-2018-18710: An information leak in cdromioctlselectdisc in drivers/cdrom/cdrom.c could be used by local attackers to read kernel memory because a cast from unsigned...

Security update for the Linux Kernel (important)

openSUSE Security Update: Security update for the Linux Kernel Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2019:0274-1 Rating: important References: 1012382 1020413 1031492 1042286 1050549 1078355 1086095 1086652 1099810 1103097 1105428 1106061 1106929 1116345 1117108 1117645 1117744 1120017 1120758 1120902...

kernel security and bug fix update

2.6.32-754.11.1.OL6 - Update genkey bug 25599697 2.6.32-754.11.1 - x86 mm/fault: Allow stack access below rsp Waiman Long 1644401 - sound alsa: rawmidi: Change resized buffers atomically Denys Vlasenko 1593083 CVE-2018-10902...

Updated kernel-linus packages fix security vulnerabilities

This kernel-linus update is based on the upstream 4.14.100 and fixes at least the following security issues: Cross-hyperthread Spectre v2 mitigation is now provided by the Single Thread Indirect Branch Predictors STIBP support. Note that STIBP also requires the functionality be supported by the...

openSUSE Security Update : the Linux Kernel (openSUSE-2019-203)

The openSUSE Leap 15.0 kernel was updated to receive various security and bugfixes. The following security bugs were fixed : - CVE-2019-3459,CVE-2019-3460: Two information leaks in the bluetooth stack were fixed. bnc1120758. - CVE-2019-7221: A use-after-free in the KVM nVMX hrtimer was fixed...

openSUSE Security Update : the Linux Kernel (openSUSE-2019-140)

The openSUSE Leap 42.3 Linux kernel was updated to 4.4.172 to receive various security and bugfixes. The following security bugs were fixed : - CVE-2019-3459,CVE-2019-3460: Two remote information leak vulnerabilities in the Bluetooth stack were fixed that could potentially leak kernel information...

Security update for the Linux Kernel (important)

openSUSE Security Update: Security update for the Linux Kernel Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2019:0140-1 Rating: important References: 1012382 1015336 1015337 1015340 1019683 1019695 1020645 1023175 1027260 1031492 1043083 1047487 1065600 1068032 1070805 1079935 1086423 1087082 1091405 1094244...

OracleVM 3.4 : Unbreakable / etc (OVMSA-2019-0002)

The remote OracleVM system is missing necessary patches to address critical security updates : - rds: congestion updates can be missed when kernel low on memory Mukesh Kacker Orabug: 28425811 - net/rds: ib: Fix endless RNR Retries caused by memory allocation failures Venkat Venkatsubra Orabug:...

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS : Linux kernel vulnerabilities (USN-3879-1)

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-3879-1 advisory. Wen Xu discovered that the ext4 file system implementation in the Linux kernel could possibly perform an out of bounds write when updating the journal fo...

USN-3879-2: Linux kernel (Xenial HWE) vulnerabilities

USN-3879-1 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. Wen Xu discovered that the ext4 file system implementation in the Linux kernel could...

USN-3879-2 linux-lts-xenial, linux-aws vulnerabilities

USN-3879-1 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. Wen Xu discovered that the ext4 file system implementation in the Linux kernel could...

USN-3879-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Wen Xu discovered that the ext4 file system implementation in the Linux kernel could possibly perform an out of bounds write when updating the journal for an inline file. An attacker could use this to construct a malicious ext4 image that, when mounted, could cause a denial of service system cras...

USN-3879-1 linux, linux-aws, linux-kvm, linux-raspi2, linux-snapdragon vulnerabilities

Wen Xu discovered that the ext4 file system implementation in the Linux kernel could possibly perform an out of bounds write when updating the journal for an inline file. An attacker could use this to construct a malicious ext4 image that, when mounted, could cause a denial of service system cras...

SUSE SLES12 Security Update : kernel (SUSE-SU-2019:0222-1) (Spectre)

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 SP4 kernel for Azure was updated to receive various security and bugfixes. The following security bugs were fixed : CVE-2018-19407: The vcpuscanioapic function in arch/x86/kvm/x86.c allowed local users to cause a denial of service NULL pointer dereference and BUG via...