Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : Linux kernel (Xenial HWE) vulnerabilities (USN-3676-2)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-3676-2 advisory. USN-3676-1 fixed vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel for Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. This update provides the corresponding updates for the Linux Hardware Enableme...

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS : Linux kernel vulnerabilities (USN-3676-1)

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-3676-1 advisory. Wen Xu discovered that the ext4 filesystem implementation in the Linux kernel did not properly handle corrupted meta data in some situations. An attacker...

USN-3676-2: Linux kernel (Xenial HWE) vulnerabilities

USN-3676-1 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-3676-2 linux-lts-xenial, linux-aws vulnerabilities

USN-3676-1 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-3676-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Wen Xu discovered that the ext4 filesystem implementation in the Linux kernel did not properly handle corrupted meta data in some situations. An attacker could use this to specially craft an ext4 filesystem that caused a denial of service system crash when mounted. CVE-2018-1092, CVE-2018-1093 It...

USN-3676-1 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 handle corrupted meta data in some situations. An attacker could use this to specially craft an ext4 filesystem that caused a denial of service system crash when mounted. CVE-2018-1092, CVE-2018-1093 It...

Debian DLA-1392-1 : linux security update

Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Linux kernel that may lead to a denial of service. CVE-2018-1093 Wen Xu reported that a crafted ext4 filesystem image could trigger an out-of-bounds read in the ext4validblockbitmap function. A local user able to mount arbitrary filesystems coul...

CVE-2018-11506

The srdoioctl function in drivers/scsi/srioctl.c in the Linux kernel through 4.16.12 allows local users to cause a denial of service stack-based buffer overflow or possibly have unspecified other impact because sense buffers have different sizes at the CDROM layer and the SCSI layer, as...

Stack overflow

The srdoioctl function in drivers/scsi/srioctl.c in the Linux kernel through 4.16.12 allows local users to cause a denial of service stack-based buffer overflow or possibly have unspecified other impact because sense buffers have different sizes at the CDROM layer and the SCSI layer, as...

CVE-2018-11506

The srdoioctl function in drivers/scsi/srioctl.c in the Linux kernel through 4.16.12 allows local users to cause a denial of service stack-based buffer overflow or possibly have unspecified other impact because sense buffers have different sizes at the CDROM layer and the SCSI layer, as...

DEBIAN-CVE-2018-11506

The srdoioctl function in drivers/scsi/srioctl.c in the Linux kernel through 4.16.12 allows local users to cause a denial of service stack-based buffer overflow or possibly have unspecified other impact because sense buffers have different sizes at the CDROM layer and the SCSI layer, as...

CVE-2018-11506

The srdoioctl function in drivers/scsi/srioctl.c in the Linux kernel through 4.16.12 allows local users to cause a denial of service stack-based buffer overflow or possibly have unspecified other impact because sense buffers have different sizes at the CDROM layer and the SCSI layer, as...

CVE-2018-11506

The srdoioctl function in drivers/scsi/srioctl.c in the Linux kernel through 4.16.12 allows local users to cause a denial of service stack-based buffer overflow or possibly have unspecified other impact because sense buffers have different sizes at the CDROM layer and the SCSI layer, as...

UBUNTU-CVE-2018-11506

The srdoioctl function in drivers/scsi/srioctl.c in the Linux kernel through 4.16.12 allows local users to cause a denial of service stack-based buffer overflow or possibly have unspecified other impact because sense buffers have different sizes at the CDROM layer and the SCSI layer, as...

Debian DSA-4201-1 : xen - security update

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Xen hypervisor : - CVE-2018-8897 Andy Lutomirski and Nick Peterson discovered that incorrect handling of debug exceptions could result in privilege escalation. - CVE-2018-10471 An error was discovered in the mitigations against Meltdown which...

Fedora 26 : xen (2018-eb69078020)

Information leak via crafted user-supplied CDROM XSA-258 1571867 x86: PV guest may crash Xen with XPTI XSA-259 1571878 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...

Security update for xen (important)

This update for xen to version 4.9.2 fixes several issues. This feature was added: - Added script, udev rule and systemd service to watch for vcpu online/offline events in a HVM domU. They are triggered via 'xl vcpu-set domU N' These security issues were fixed: - CVE-2018-8897: Prevent mishandlin...

SUSE SLES11 Security Update : xen (SUSE-SU-2018:1203-1) (Meltdown)

This update for xen fixes several issues. These security issues were fixed : - CVE-2018-8897: Prevent mishandling of debug exceptions on x86 XSA-260, bsc1090820 - Handle HPET timers in IO-APIC mode correctly to prevent malicious or buggy HVM guests from causing a hypervisor crash or potentially...

Linux kernel 'cdrom_ioctl_media_changed' function denial of service vulnerability

Linux kernel is the kernel used by Linux, the open source operating system released by the Linux Foundation in the United States. A security vulnerability exists in the 'cdromioctlmediachanged' function in the drivers/cdrom/cdrom.c file in Linux kernel versions prior to 4.16.6. A local attacker c...

SUSE SLES12 Security Update : xen (SUSE-SU-2018:1177-1) (Meltdown)

This update for xen fixes several issues. These security issues were fixed : - CVE-2018-8897: Prevent mishandling of debug exceptions on x86 XSA-260, bsc1090820 - Handle HPET timers in IO-APIC mode correctly to prevent malicious or buggy HVM guests from causing a hypervisor crash or potentially...