Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-4211-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2019 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-4211-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Zhipeng Xie discovered that an infinite loop could be triggered in the CFS Linux kernel process scheduler. A local attacker could possibly use this to cause a denial of service. CVE-2018-20784 Nicolas Waisman discovered that the WiFi driver stack in the Linux kernel did not properly validate SSID...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-4115-2)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2019 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...

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS : Linux kernel vulnerabilities (USN-4115-1)

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-4115-1 advisory. Hui Peng and Mathias Payer discovered that the Option USB High Speed driver in the Linux kernel did not properly validate metadata received...

USN-4115-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Hui Peng and Mathias Payer discovered that the Option USB High Speed driver in the Linux kernel did not properly validate metadata received from the device. A physically proximate attacker could use this to cause a denial of service system crash. CVE-2018-19985 Zhipeng Xie discovered that an...