Oracle: Security Advisory (ELSA-2013-2583)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2015 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...

Scientific Linux Security Update : kernel on SL7.x x86_64 (20150512)

A buffer overflow flaw was found in the way the Linux kernel's Intel AES-NI instructions optimized version of the RFC4106 GCM mode decryption functionality handled fragmented packets. A remote attacker could use this flaw to crash, or potentially escalate their privileges on, a system over a...

kernel: security and bugfix update (important)

The Linux kernel was updated to fix various bugs and security issues: - mm/page-writeback.c: do not count anon pages as dirtyable memory reclaim stalls. - mm/page-writeback.c: fix dirtybalancereserve subtraction from dirtyable memory reclaim stalls. - compatsysrecvmmsg X32 fix bnc860993...

Oracle Linux 5 / 6 : Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel (ELSA-2013-2585)

The remote Oracle Linux 5 / 6 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2013-2585 advisory. - afkey: fix info leaks in notify messages Mathias Krause Orabug: 17837974 CVE-2013-2234 - drivers/cdrom/cdrom.c: use kzalloc for failing hardware...

Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel security update

3.8.13-16.2.2.el6uek - HID: pantherlord: validate output report details Kees Cook Orabug: 17841973 CVE-2013-2892 - HID: zeroplus: validate output report details Kees Cook Orabug: 17841968 CVE-2013-2889 - HID: provide a helper for validating hid reports Kees Cook Orabug: 17841968 CVE-2013-2889 -...

kernel: ansi_cprng: off by one error in non-block size request

Off-by-one error in the getprngbytes function in crypto/ansicprng.c in the Linux kernel through 3.11.4 makes it easier for context-dependent attackers to defeat cryptographic protection mechanisms via multiple requests for small amounts of data, leading to improper management of the state of the...

kernel: ansi_cprng: off by one error in non-block size request

Off-by-one error in the getprngbytes function in crypto/ansicprng.c in the Linux kernel through 3.11.4 makes it easier for context-dependent attackers to defeat cryptographic protection mechanisms via multiple requests for small amounts of data, leading to improper management of the state of the...