Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2016-4486

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available. - The rtnlfilllinkifmap function in net/core/rtnetlink.c in the Linux kernel before 4.5.5 does not initialize a certain data structure, which allows local users t...

SUSE: Security Advisory (SUSE-SU-2016:2074-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2021 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: Security Advisory (SUSE-SU-2016:2105-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2021 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...

Linux Kernel 4.4 - rtnetlink Stack Memory Disclosure

Linux Kernel 4.4 - rtnetlink Stack Memory Disclosure / Briefs - CVE-2016-4486 has discovered and reported by Kangjie Lu. - This is local exploit against the CVE-2016-4486. Tested version - Distro : Ubuntu 16.04 - Kernel version : 4.4.0-21-generic - Arch : x8664 Prerequisites - None Goal - Leak...

Linux Kernel 4.4 rtnetlink Stack Memory Disclosure

/ Briefs - CVE-2016-4486 has discovered and reported by Kangjie Lu. - This is local exploit against the CVE-2016-4486. Tested version - Distro : Ubuntu 16.04 - Kernel version : 4.4.0-21-generic - Arch : x8664 Prerequisites - None Goal - Leak kernel stack base address of current process by...

Linux Kernel 4.4 - 'rtnetlink' Stack Memory Disclosure

/ Briefs - CVE-2016-4486 has discovered and reported by Kangjie Lu. - This is local exploit against the CVE-2016-4486. Tested version - Distro : Ubuntu 16.04 - Kernel version : 4.4.0-21-generic - Arch : x8664 Prerequisites - None Goal - Leak kernel stack base address of current process by...

Amazon Linux: Security Advisory (ALAS-2016-703)

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 : 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...

Security update for the Linux Kernel (important)

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-2016:2184-1)

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...

Fedora 22 : kernel (2016-a159c484e4)

The 4.4.9 update contains an number of important fixes across the tree 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 introducin...

openSUSE Security Update : the Linux Kernel (openSUSE-2016-753)

The openSUSE Leap 42.1 kernel was updated to 4.1.26 to receive various security and bugfixes. The following security bugs were fixed : - CVE-2016-1583: Prevent the usage of mmap when the lower file system does not allow it. This could have lead to local privilege escalation when ecryptfs-utils wa...

Security update for the Linux Kernel (important)

The openSUSE Leap 42.1 kernel was updated to 4.1.26 to receive various security and bugfixes. The following security bugs were fixed: - CVE-2016-1583: Prevent the usage of mmap when the lower file system does not allow it. This could have lead to local privilege escalation when ecryptfs-utils was...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-3000-1)

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...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-3003-1)

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...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-3004-1)

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...

Fedora Update for kernel FEDORA-2016-a159c484e4

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...

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : Linux kernel vulnerabilities (USN-2989-1)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-2989-1 advisory. Justin Yackoski discovered that the Atheros L2 Ethernet Driver in the Linux kernel incorrectly enables scatter/gather I/O. A remote attacker could use th...

CVE-2016-4486

The rtnlfilllinkifmap function in net/core/rtnetlink.c in the Linux kernel before 4.5.5 does not initialize a certain data structure, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel stack memory by reading a Netlink message...