Huawei EulerOS: Security Advisory for kernel (EulerOS-SA-2019-2599)

The remote host is missing an update for the Huawei EulerOS SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2020 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...

Huawei EulerOS: Security Advisory for kernel (EulerOS-SA-2019-1494)

The remote host is missing an update for the Huawei EulerOS SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2020 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-3070-4)

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...

Oracle Linux 6 / 7 : Unbreakable Enterprise kernel (ELSA-2016-3596)

The remote Oracle Linux 6 / 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2016-3596 advisory. - KEYS: potential uninitialized variable Dan Carpenter Orabug: 24402831 CVE-2016-4470 - vfs: add vfsselectinode helper Miklos Szeredi Orabug:...

Unbreakable Enterprise kernel security update

kernel-uek 4.1.12-61.1.6 - blk-mq: avoid setting hctx-tags-cpumask before allocation Akinobu Mita Orabug: 24464170 4.1.12-61.1.3 - ocfs2: improve recovery performance Junxiao Bi Orabug: 24395729 - qed: Utilize FW 8.10.3.0 Yuval Mintz Orabug: 24442553 - blk-mq: mark request queue as mq asap Ming L...

CVE-2016-6197

fs/overlayfs/dir.c in the OverlayFS filesystem implementation in the Linux kernel before 4.6 does not properly verify the upper dentry before proceeding with unlink and rename system-call processing, which allows local users to cause a denial of service system crash via a rename system call that...

CVE-2016-6197

CVE-2016-6197 affects the OverlayFS implementation (fs/overlayfs/dir.c) in the Linux kernel before 4.6. The flaw allows a local user to cause a denial of service (system crash) by a rename that specifies a self-hardlink, due to incomplete verification of the upper dentry during unlink/rename. Exp...

Oracle Linux 6 / 7 : kernel-uek (ELSA-2016-3587)

The remote Oracle Linux 6 / 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2016-3587 advisory. - vfs: rename: check backing inode being equal Miklos Szeredi Orabug: 24010060 CVE-2016-6198 CVE-2016-6197 - vfs: add vfsselectinode helper Miklos...

OracleVM 3.4 : kernel-uek (OVMSA-2016-0091)

The remote OracleVM system is missing necessary patches to address critical security updates : - vfs: rename: check backing inode being equal Miklos Szeredi Orabug: 24010060 CVE-2016-6198 CVE-2016-6197 - vfs: add vfsselectinode helper Miklos Szeredi Orabug: 24010060 CVE-2016-6198 CVE-2016-6197 -...

kernel-uek security update

kernel-uek 4.1.12-37.6.1 - vfs: rename: check backing inode being equal Miklos Szeredi Orabug: 24010060 CVE-2016-6198 CVE-2016-6197 - vfs: add vfsselectinode helper Miklos Szeredi Orabug: 24010060 CVE-2016-6198 CVE-2016-6197 - ovl: verify upper dentry before unlink and rename Miklos Szeredi Orabu...

CVE-2016-6197

It was found that the unlink and rename functionality in overlayfs did not verify the upper dentry for staleness. A local, unprivileged user could use the rename syscall on overlayfs on top of xfs to panic or crash the system...