Security update for the Linux Kernel (important)

The openSUSE Leap 42.3 kernel was updated to 4.4.90 to receive various security and bugfixes. The following security bugs were fixed: - CVE-2017-1000252: The KVM subsystem in the Linux kernel allowed guest OS users to cause a denial of service assertion failure, and hypervisor hang or crash via a...

Security update for the Linux Kernel (important)

The openSUSE Leap 42.2 Kernel was updated to 4.4.90 to receive various security and bugfixes. The following security bugs were fixed: - CVE-2017-1000252: The KVM subsystem in the Linux kernel allowed guest OS users to cause a denial of service assertion failure, and hypervisor hang or crash via a...

UBUNTU-CVE-2017-12168

The accesspmuevcntr function in arch/arm64/kvm/sysregs.c in the Linux kernel before 4.8.11 allows privileged KVM guest OS users to cause a denial of service assertion failure and host OS crash by accessing the Performance Monitors Cycle Count Register PMCCNTR...

Linux kernel 'access_pmu_evcntr' function denial of service vulnerability

Linux kernel is an open source operating system. A security vulnerability in the 'accesspmuevcntr' function in the Linux kernel arch/arm64/kvm/sysregs.c file allows a local attacker to exploit the vulnerability by submitting a special request to crash the system...

CVE-2017-12168

An assertion failure issue was found in the Linux kernel's KVM hypervisor module built to support visualization on ARM64 architecture platforms. The failure could occur while accessing Performance Monitors Cycle Count Register PMCCNTR from a guest. A privileged guest user could use this flaw to...

Security update for qemu (important)

This update for qemu fixes the following issues: Security issues fixed: CVE-2017-10664: Fix DOS vulnerability in qemu-nbd bsc1046636 CVE-2017-10806: Fix DOS from stack overflow in debug messages of usb redirection support bsc1047674 CVE-2017-11334: Fix OOB access during DMA operation bsc1048902...

openSUSE Security Update : qemu (openSUSE-2017-1072)

This update for qemu fixes the following issues : Security issues fixed : - CVE-2017-10664: Fix DOS vulnerability in qemu-nbd bsc1046636 - CVE-2017-10806: Fix DOS from stack overflow in debug messages of usb redirection support bsc1047674 - CVE-2017-11334: Fix OOB access during DMA operation...

Security update for the Linux Kernel (important)

The openSUSE Leap 42.3 kernel was updated to 4.4.87 to receive various security and bugfixes. The following security bugs were fixed: - CVE-2017-1000251: The native Bluetooth stack in the Linux Kernel BlueZ was vulnerable to a stack overflow vulnerability in the processing of L2CAP configuration...

openSUSE Security Update : the Linux Kernel (openSUSE-2017-1017)

The openSUSE Leap 42.3 kernel was updated to 4.4.85 to receive various security and bugfixes. The following security bugs were fixed : - CVE-2017-14051: An integer overflow in the qla2x00sysfswriteoptromctl function in drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qlaattr.c in the Linux kernel allowed local users to caus...

Security update for the Linux Kernel (important)

The openSUSE Leap 42.3 kernel was updated to 4.4.85 to receive various security and bugfixes. The following security bugs were fixed: - CVE-2017-14051: An integer overflow in the qla2x00sysfswriteoptromctl function in drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qlaattr.c in the Linux kernel allowed local users to cause...

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : Linux kernel vulnerabilities (USN-3360-1)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-3360-1 advisory. It was discovered that the Linux kernel did not properly initialize a Wake- on-Lan data structure. A local attacker could use this to expose sensitive...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-3360-1)

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-3360-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

It was discovered that the Linux kernel did not properly initialize a Wake- on-Lan data structure. A local attacker could use this to expose sensitive information kernel memory. CVE-2014-9900 It was discovered that the Linux kernel did not properly restrict access to /proc/iomem. A local attacker...

CVE-2017-9955

The getbuildid function in opncls.c in the Binary File Descriptor BFD library aka libbfd, as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.28, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service heap-based buffer over-read and application crash via a crafted file in which a certain size field is larger than a...

CVE-2016-10226

JavaScriptCore in WebKit, as distributed in Safari Technology Preview Release 18, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service bitfield out-of-bounds read and application crash via crafted JavaScript code that is mishandled in the operatorString function, related to...

openSUSE Security Update : the Linux Kernel (openSUSE-2017-245)

The openSUSE 42.2 kernel was updated to 4.4.42 stable release. The following security bugs were fixed : - CVE-2016-7117: Use-after-free vulnerability in the sysrecvmmsg function in net/socket.c in the Linux kernel allowed remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via vectors involving a recvmmsg...

Linux kernel denial of service vulnerability (CNVD-2016-09458)

The Linux kernel is the kernel used by the operating system Linux, released by the Linux Foundation in the United States. A denial of service vulnerability exists in the arch/arm64/kernel/perfevent.c file in versions of Linux kernel prior to 4.1 on arm64-based platforms. A local attacker can...

CVE-2015-8955

arch/arm64/kernel/perfevent.c in the Linux kernel before 4.1 on arm64 platforms allows local users to gain privileges or cause a denial of service invalid pointer dereference via vectors involving events that are mishandled during a span of multiple HW PMUs...

CVE-2015-8955

arch/arm64/kernel/perfevent.c in the Linux kernel before 4.1 on arm64 platforms allows local users to gain privileges or cause a denial of service invalid pointer dereference via vectors involving events that are mishandled during a span of multiple HW PMUs...

CVE-2015-8955

CVE-2015-8955 affects the Linux kernel on arm64 (arch/arm64/kernel/perf_event.c) prior to 4.1. The issue arises from events across multiple HW PMUs being mishandled, allowing local users to gain privileges or trigger a denial of service via an invalid pointer dereference. Impact is limited to loc...