Security update for the Linux Kernel (important)

The openSUSE 13.2 kernel was updated to receive various security and bugfixes. The following security bugs were fixed: - CVE-2015-8956: The rfcommsockbind function in net/bluetooth/rfcomm/sock.c in the Linux kernel allowed local users to obtain sensitive information or cause a denial of service...

Fedora 24 : libass (2016-282507c3e9)

The remote Fedora 24 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the FEDORA-2016-282507c3e9 advisory. Fixes CVE-2016-7969, CVE-2016-7970 and CVE-2016-7972 ---- Update to 0.13.3. Contains various bugfixes. Tenable has extracted the preceding descripti...

openSUSE Security Update : the Linux Kernel (openSUSE-2016-1076)

The openSUSE Leap 42.1 kernel was updated to 4.1.31 to receive various security and bugfixes. The following security bugs were fixed : - CVE-2016-2847: fs/pipe.c in the Linux kernel did not limit the amount of unread data in pipes, which allowed local users to cause a denial of service memory...

openSUSE: Security Advisory for kernel (openSUSE-SU-2016:2290-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2016 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...

SUSE SLES11 Security Update : kernel (SUSE-SU-2016:2018-1)

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 SP4 kernel was updated to receive various security and bugfixes. The following security bugs were fixed : - CVE-2016-5829: Multiple heap-based buffer overflows in the hiddevioctlusage function in drivers/hid/usbhid/hiddev.c in the Linux kernel allowed local users to...

SUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : kernel (SUSE-SU-2016:2105-1)

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 SP1 kernel was updated to 3.12.62 to receive various security and bugfixes. The following security bugs were fixed : - CVE-2014-9904: The sndcompresscheckinput function in sound/core/compressoffload.c in the ALSA subsystem in the Linux kernel did not properly check fo...

openSUSE: Security Advisory for kernel (openSUSE-SU-2016:2184-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2016 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...

SUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : kernel (SUSE-SU-2016:1696-1)

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 SP1 kernel was updated to 3.12.59 to receive various security and bugfixes. Main feature additions : - Improved support for Clustered File System CephFS, fate318586. - Addition of kGraft patches now produces logging messages to simplify auditing fate317827. The...

SUSE-SU-2016:2018-1 Security update for the Linux Kernel

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 SP4 kernel was updated to receive various security and bugfixes. The following security bugs were fixed: - CVE-2016-5829: Multiple heap-based buffer overflows in the hiddevioctlusage function in drivers/hid/usbhid/hiddev.c in the Linux kernel allowed local users to...

openSUSE Security Update : libidn (openSUSE-2016-925)

This libidn update to version 1.33 fixes the following issues : Security issues fixed : - CVE-2015-8948, CVE-2016-6262: Fixed an out-of-bounds-read when reading one zero byte as input bsc990189. - CVE-2016-6263: Fixed stringpreputf8nfkcnormalize to reject invalid UTF-8 bscboo990191. Included...

Security update for the Linux Kernel (important)

The openSUSE Leap 42.1 was updated to 4.1.27 to receive various security and bugfixes. The following security bugs were fixed: - CVE-2016-4997: A buffer overflow in 32bit compatsetsockopt iptables handling could lead to a local privilege escalation. bsc986362 - CVE-2016-5829: Multiple heap-based...

Fedora 24 : gd (2016-a82ad4c373)

Security fix for CVE-2015-8877 --- Upgrade to latest version - mainly bugfixes. Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system website. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without...

SUSE: Security Advisory for kernel (SUSE-SU-2016:1690-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2016 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...

openSUSE: Security Advisory for kernel (openSUSE-SU-2016:1641-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2016 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...

openSUSE Security Update : virtualbox (openSUSE-2016-672)

Virtualbox was updated to 5.0.20 to fix the following issues : Version bump to 5.0.20 released 2016-04-28 by Oracle This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added : - NAT Network: File VBoxNetNAT no longer requires suid - Storage: fixed a regression causing write...

openSUSE: Security Advisory for kernel (openSUSE-SU-2016:1382-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2016 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...

openSUSE Security Update : libreoffice (openSUSE-2016-642)

This libreoffice update to version 5.0.6.3 fixes the following issues : Security issues fixed : - CVE-2016-0794: multiple lwp issues boo967014 - CVE-2016-0795: multiple lwp issues boo967015 Bugs fixed : - Version update to 5.0.6.3 : - 5.0.6 release, various bugfixes on the 5.0 series, this is las...

openSUSE Security Update : virtualbox (openSUSE-2016-666)

virtualbox was updated to 5.0.18 and also fixes the following issues : Version bump to 5.0.18 released 2016-04-18 by Oracle This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added: GUI: position off-screen windows to be fully visible again on relaunch in consistence with...

openSUSE Security Update : the Linux Kernel (openSUSE-2016-629)

The openSUSE Leap 42.1 kernel was updated to receive various security and bugfixes. The following security bugs were fixed : - CVE-2016-2847: Limit the per-user amount of pages allocated in pipes bsc970948. - CVE-2016-3136: mctu232: add sanity checking in probe bnc970955. - CVE-2016-2188:...

SUSE-SU-2016:1102-1 Security update for the Linux Kernel

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 SP4 RT kernel was updated to receive various security and bugfixes. Following feature was added to kernel-xen: - A improved XEN blkfront module was added, which allows more I/O bandwidth. FATE320200 It is called xen-blkfront in PV, and xen-vbd-upstream in HVM mode. Th...