Ubuntu 18.04 LTS : Linux kernel vulnerabilities (USN-4412-1)

The remote Ubuntu 18.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-4412-1 advisory. Matthew Sheets discovered that the SELinux network label handling implementation in the Linux kernel could be coerced into de-referencing a NULL pointer....

PT-2020-14626

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Linux kernel versions prior to 5.7.7 Description An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel, specifically in drivers/acpi/acpi configfs.c, where injection of malicious ACPI tables via configfs could be used by attackers to bypass lockdown and...

Linux kernel buffer overflow vulnerability (CNVD-2020-33664)

Linux kernel is the kernel used by Linux, the open source operating system released by the Linux Foundation in the United States. A buffer overflow vulnerability exists in the gadgetdevdescUDCstore file in drivers/usb/gadget/configfs.c file in Linux kernel 5.6.13 and earlier, which stems from a...

DEBIAN-CVE-2020-13143

gadgetdevdescUDCstore in drivers/usb/gadget/configfs.c in the Linux kernel 3.16 through 5.6.13 relies on kstrdup without considering the possibility of an internal '\0' value, which allows attackers to trigger an out-of-bounds read, aka CID-15753588bcd4...

UBUNTU-CVE-2020-13143

gadgetdevdescUDCstore in drivers/usb/gadget/configfs.c in the Linux kernel 3.16 through 5.6.13 relies on kstrdup without considering the possibility of an internal '\0' value, which allows attackers to trigger an out-of-bounds read, aka CID-15753588bcd4...

RHEL 6 : kernel (RHSA-2016:1664)

An update for kernel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from th...

kernel security and bug fix update

2.6.32-642.4.2 - net tcp: make challenge acks less predictable Florian Westphal 1355606 1355607 CVE-2016-5696 2.6.32-642.4.1 - ipmi Remove smimsg from waitingrcvmsgs list before handleonerecvmsg David Arcari 1355980 1347189 - fs ext4: Remove useless spinlock in ext4getattr Lukas Czerner 1355981...