Security update for the Linux Kernel (important)

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...

Security update for the Linux Kernel (important)

The openSUSE Leap 42.3 kernel was updated to 4.4.165-81.1 to receive various bugfixes. The following non-security bugs were fixed: - 9p locks: fix glock.clientid leak in dolock bnc1012382. - 9p: clear dangling pointers in p9statfree bnc1012382. - ACPI / LPSS: Add alternative ACPI HIDs for Cherry...

Unbreakable Enterprise kernel security update

4.14.35-1818.5.4 - RDS: null pointer dereference in rdsatomicfreeop Mohamed Ghannam Orabug: 28020694 CVE-2018-5333 - x86/speculation: Make enhanced IBRS the default spectre v2 mitigation Alejandro Jimenez Orabug: 28474853 - x86/speculation: Enable enhanced IBRS usage Alejandro Jimenez Orabug:...

Parrot Security 4.4 - Security GNU/Linux Distribution Designed with Cloud Pentesting and IoT Security in Mind

Parrot 4.4 is now available for download. This release provides security and stability updates and is the starting point for the plan to develop an LTS edition of Parrot. Parrot 4.4 Development Goals The Parrot 4.4 development process involved the ideas of many people in the community, and the go...

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS : Linux kernel vulnerabilities (USN-3821-1)

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-3821-1 advisory. Wen Xu discovered that the ext4 filesystem implementation in the Linux kernel did not properly ensure that xattr information remained in inode bodies. An...

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : Linux kernel (Xenial HWE) vulnerabilities (USN-3821-2)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-3821-2 advisory. USN-3821-1 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-3821-1)

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-3821-2 linux-lts-xenial, linux-aws vulnerabilities

USN-3821-1 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 filesystem implementation in the Linux kernel did not...

USN-3821-2: Linux kernel (Xenial HWE) vulnerabilities

USN-3821-1 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 filesystem implementation in the Linux kernel did not...

USN-3821-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Wen Xu discovered that the ext4 filesystem implementation in the Linux kernel did not properly ensure that xattr information remained in inode bodies. An attacker could use this to construct a malicious ext4 image that, when mounted, could cause a denial of service system crash. CVE-2018-10880 It...

USN-3821-1 linux, linux-aws, linux-kvm, linux-raspi2, linux-snapdragon vulnerabilities

Wen Xu discovered that the ext4 filesystem implementation in the Linux kernel did not properly ensure that xattr information remained in inode bodies. An attacker could use this to construct a malicious ext4 image that, when mounted, could cause a denial of service system crash. CVE-2018-10880 It...

Unbreakable Enterprise kernel security update

4.14.35-1818.4.5 - x86/intel/spectrev2: Remove unnecessary retpcompiler test Boris Ostrovsky Orabug: 28814574 - x86/intel/spectrev4: Deprecate specstorebypassdisable=userspace Boris Ostrovsky Orabug: 28814574 - x86/speculation: x86specctrlset needs to be called unconditionally Boris Ostrovsky...

Security update for the Linux Kernel (important)

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 lo...

Security update for the Linux Kernel (important)

The openSUSE Leap 42.3 kernel was updated to 4.4.159 to receive various security and bugfixes. The following security bugs were fixed: - CVE-2018-13096: A denial of service out-of-bounds memory access and BUG can occur upon encountering an abnormal bitmap size when mounting a crafted f2fs image...

OracleVM 3.4 : Unbreakable / etc (OVMSA-2018-0253)

The remote OracleVM system is missing necessary patches to address critical security updates : - rebuild bumping release - Cipso: cipsov4optptr enter infinite loop yujuan.qi Orabug: 28563992 CVE-2018-10938 - Btrfs: fix listadd corruption and soft lockups in fsync Liu Bo - x86/paravirt: Fix...

Unbreakable Enterprise kernel security update

4.1.12-124.18.9 - rebuild bumping release 4.1.12-124.18.8 - Cipso: cipsov4optptr enter infinite loop yujuan.qi Orabug: 28563992 CVE-2018-10938 - Btrfs: fix listadd corruption and soft lockups in fsync Liu Bo Orabug: 28119834 - x86/paravirt: Fix spectre-v2 mitigations for paravirt guests Peter...

DEBIAN-CVE-2018-14722

An issue was discovered in evaluateautomountpoint in btrfsmaintenance-functions in btrfsmaintenance through 0.4.1. Code execution as root can occur via a specially crafted filesystem label if btrfs-scrub,balance,trim are set to auto in /etc/sysconfig/btrfsmaintenance this is not the default, thou...

CVE-2018-14609

An issue was discovered in the btrfs filesystem code in the Linux kernel. An invalid pointer dereference in delrelocroot in fs/btrfs/relocation.c when mounting a crafted btrfs image could lead to a system crash and a denial of service...

yum-utils security update

1.1.30-42.0.1 - add dependency btrfs-progs for yum-plugin-fs-snapshot [email protected] bug 16285176 - use unified btrfs binary instead of btrfsctl [email protected] bug 16285176 -1.1.30-42 - reposync: prevent path traversal. - Resolves: bug1600619...

Null pointer dereference

An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel through 4.17.10. There is an invalid pointer dereference in btrfsrootnode when mounting a crafted btrfs image, because of a lack of chunk block group mapping validation in btrfsreadblockgroups in fs/btrfs/extent-tree.c, and a lack of empty-tree checks i...