Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2016-7914

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available. - The assocarrayinsertintoterminalnode function in lib/assocarray.c in the Linux kernel before 4.5.3 does not check whether a slot is a leaf, which allows local...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-3406-2)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2022 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-2017:0464-1)

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...

Huawei EulerOS: Security Advisory for kernel (EulerOS-SA-2019-1484)

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...

USN-3406-2: Linux kernel (Trusty HWE) vulnerabilities

USN-3406-1 fixed vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel for Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. This update provides the corresponding updates for the Linux Hardware Enablement HWE kernel from Ubuntu 14.04 LTS for Ubuntu 12.04 ESM. It was discovered that an out of bounds read vulnerability existed in the associative...

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : Linux kernel vulnerabilities (USN-3406-1)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-3406-1 advisory. It was discovered that an out of bounds read vulnerability existed in the associative array implementation in the Linux kernel. A local attacker could us...

SUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : kernel (SUSE-SU-2017:0464-1)

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 SP1 kernel was updated to 3.12.69 to receive various security and bugfixes. The following security bugs were fixed : - CVE-2015-8962: Double free vulnerability in the sgcommonwrite function in drivers/scsi/sg.c in the Linux kernel allowed local users to gain privilege...

openSUSE Security Update : the Linux Kernel (openSUSE-2016-1431)

The openSUSE 13.2 kernel was updated to receive various security and bugfixes. The following security bugs were fixed : - CVE-2015-8962: Double free vulnerability in the sgcommonwrite function in drivers/scsi/sg.c in the Linux kernel allowed local users to gain privileges or cause a denial of...

Security update for the Linux Kernel (important)

The openSUSE 13.2 kernel was updated to receive various security and bugfixes. The following security bugs were fixed: - CVE-2015-8962: Double free vulnerability in the sgcommonwrite function in drivers/scsi/sg.c in the Linux kernel allowed local users to gain privileges or cause a denial of...

CVE-2016-7914

The assocarrayinsertintoterminalnode function in lib/assocarray.c in the Linux kernel before 4.5.3 does not check whether a slot is a leaf, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel memory or cause a denial of service invalid pointer dereference and out-of-bounds read v...

CVE-2016-7914

The assocarrayinsertintoterminalnode function in lib/assocarray.c in the Linux kernel before 4.5.3 does not check whether a slot is a leaf, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel memory or cause a denial of service invalid pointer dereference and out-of-bounds read v...

CVE-2016-7914

The CVE-2016-7914 issue affects the Linux kernel prior to 4.5.3. The vulnerable component is assoc_array_insert_into_terminal_node in lib/assoc_array.c, which does not verify whether a slot is a leaf. This can allow a local user to read kernel memory or trigger a denial of service (invalid pointe...