Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2016-7916

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available. - Race condition in the environread function in fs/proc/base.c in the Linux kernel before 4.5.4 allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-3160-2)

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...

USN-3160-2: Linux kernel (Trusty HWE) vulnerabilities

USN-3160-1 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 LTS. CAI Qian discovered that shared bind mounts in a mount namespace exponentially added...

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...

DEBIAN-CVE-2016-7916

Race condition in the environread function in fs/proc/base.c in the Linux kernel before 4.5.4 allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel memory by reading a /proc//environ file during a process-setup time interval in which environment-variable copying is incomplete...

CVE-2016-7916

CVE-2016-7916 is a Linux kernel local privilege disclosure affecting the environ_read path in fs/proc/base.c. The race condition between environment-variable copying and process setup allows a local user to read sensitive data from kernel memory by accessing a /proc/*/environ file during the setu...