Ubuntu 16.04 LTS : Linux kernel vulnerabilities (USN-3619-1)

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-3619-1 advisory. Jann Horn discovered that the Berkeley Packet Filter BPF implementation in the Linux kernel improperly performed sign extension in some situations. A loc...

Ubuntu 17.10 : linux-raspi2 vulnerabilities (USN-3617-3)

It was discovered that a race condition leading to a use-after-free vulnerability existed in the ALSA PCM subsystem of the Linux kernel. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service system crash or possibly execute arbitrary code. CVE-2017-0861 It was discovered that a...

USN-3619-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Jann Horn discovered that the Berkeley Packet Filter BPF implementation in the Linux kernel improperly performed sign extension in some situations. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service system crash or possibly execute arbitrary code. CVE-2017-16995 It was discovered that a...

USN-3619-1 linux, linux-aws, linux-kvm, linux-raspi2, linux-snapdragon vulnerabilities

Jann Horn discovered that the Berkeley Packet Filter BPF implementation in the Linux kernel improperly performed sign extension in some situations. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service system crash or possibly execute arbitrary code. CVE-2017-16995 It was discovered that a...

USN-3617-3: Linux kernel (Raspberry Pi 2) vulnerabilities

It was discovered that a race condition leading to a use-after-free vulnerability existed in the ALSA PCM subsystem of the Linux kernel. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service system crash or possibly execute arbitrary code. CVE-2017-0861 It was discovered that a...

Ubuntu 17.10 : linux vulnerabilities (USN-3617-1)

It was discovered that a race condition leading to a use-after-free vulnerability existed in the ALSA PCM subsystem of the Linux kernel. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service system crash or possibly execute arbitrary code. CVE-2017-0861 It was discovered that the KVM...

USN-3617-2 linux-hwe, linux-gcp, linux-oem vulnerabilities

USN-3617-1 fixed vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel for Ubuntu 17.10. This update provides the corresponding updates for the Linux Hardware Enablement HWE kernel from Ubuntu 17.10 for Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. It was discovered that a race condition leading to a use-after-free vulnerability existed in t...

USN-3617-2: Linux (HWE) vulnerabilities

USN-3617-1 fixed vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel for Ubuntu 17.10. This update provides the corresponding updates for the Linux Hardware Enablement HWE kernel from Ubuntu 17.10 for Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. It was discovered that a race condition leading to a use-after-free vulnerability existed in t...

USN-3617-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

It was discovered that a race condition leading to a use-after-free vulnerability existed in the ALSA PCM subsystem of the Linux kernel. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service system crash or possibly execute arbitrary code. CVE-2017-0861 It was discovered that the KVM...

SUSE-SU-2018:0834-1 Security update for the Linux Kernel

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 kernel was updated to receive various security and bugfixes. The following security bugs were fixed: - CVE-2018-1068: Fixed flaw in the implementation of 32-bit syscall interface for bridging. This allowed a privileged user to arbitrarily write to a limited range of...

CVE-2018-7566

ALSA sequencer core initializes the event pool on demand by invoking sndseqpoolinit when the first write happens and the pool is empty. A user can reset the pool size manually via ioctl concurrently, and this may lead to UAF or out-of-bound access...

Oracle Linux 5 / 6 : Unbreakable Enterprise kernel (ELSA-2018-4041)

The remote Oracle Linux 5 / 6 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2018-4041 advisory. - KEYS: Remove keytype::match in favour of overriding default by matchpreparse Tim Tianyang Chen Orabug: 25757946 CVE-2017-6951 - tcp: initialize...

Unbreakable Enterprise kernel security update

2.6.39-400.298.3 - ext4: limit group search loop for non-extent files Lachlan McIlroy Orabug: 17488415 - ext4: fixup 64-bit divides in 3.0-stable backport of upstream fix Todd Poynor Orabug: 17488415 - ext4: use atomic64t for the per-flexbg freeclusters count Theodore Ts'o Orabug: 17488415 - ext4...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-3583-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2018 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-3583-1 linux vulnerabilities

It was discovered that an out-of-bounds write vulnerability existed in the Flash-Friendly File System f2fs in the Linux kernel. An attacker could construct a malicious file system that, when mounted, could cause a denial of service system crash or possibly execute arbitrary code. CVE-2017-0750 It...

USN-3583-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

It was discovered that an out-of-bounds write vulnerability existed in the Flash-Friendly File System f2fs in the Linux kernel. An attacker could construct a malicious file system that, when mounted, could cause a denial of service system crash or possibly execute arbitrary code. CVE-2017-0750 It...

PT-2018-2206

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Linux kernel versions prior to the fixed version Description The issue is related to a use-after-free error in the ALSA /dev/snd/seq driver of the Linux kernel. It may allow an attacker to impact the confidentiality, integrity, and availabilit...

OracleVM 3.4 : Unbreakable / etc (OVMSA-2018-0017) (Meltdown)

The remote OracleVM system is missing necessary patches to address critical security updates : - drivers/char/mem.c: deny access in open operation when securelevel is set Ethan Zhao Orabug: 27234850 Orabug: 27234850 - hugetlb: fix nrpmds accounting with shared page tables Kirill A. Shutemov Orabu...

Oracle Linux 6 / 7 : Unbreakable Enterprise kernel (ELSA-2018-4025)

The remote Oracle Linux 6 / 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2018-4025 advisory. - dccp: CVE-2017-8824: use-after-free in DCCP code Mohamed Ghannam Orabug: 27290300 CVE-2017-8824 - ALSA: pcm: prevent UAF in sndpcminfo Robb Glass...

Unbreakable Enterprise kernel security update

4.1.12-112.14.14 - drivers/char/mem.c: deny access in open operation when securelevel is set Ethan Zhao Orabug: 27234850 Orabug: 27234850 - hugetlb: fix nrpmds accounting with shared page tables Kirill A. Shutemov Orabug: 26988581 - x86/IBRS: Drop unnecessary WRITEONCE Boris Ostrovsky Orabug:...