Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2016-9754

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available. - The ringbufferresize function in kernel/trace/ringbuffer.c in the profiling subsystem in the Linux kernel before 4.6.1 mishandles certain integer calculations,...

Huawei EulerOS: Security Advisory for kernel (EulerOS-SA-2019-1472)

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...

Photon OS 1.0: Libxml2 / Linux / Openssh PHSA-2017-0001 (deprecated)

An update of openssh,linux,libxml2 packages for PhotonOS has been released. C Tenable Network Security, Inc. @DEPRECATED@ Disabled on 2/7/2019 The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from VMware Security Advisory PHSA-2017-0001. The text itself is copyright C VMware,...

CVE-2016-9754

The ringbufferresize function in kernel/trace/ringbuffer.c in the profiling subsystem in the Linux kernel before 4.6.1 mishandles certain integer calculations, which allows local users to gain privileges by writing to the /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/buffersizekb file...

CVE-2016-9754

An integer overflow vulnerability was found in the ringbufferresize calculations in which a privileged user can adjust the size of the ringbuffer message size. These calculations can create an issue where the kernel memory allocator will not allocate the correct count of pages yet expect them to ...

CVE-2016-9754

CVE-2016-9754 affects the Linux kernel’s ring_buffer_resize in the profiling subsystem, where integer calculations in ring_buffer.c before 4.6.1 allow a local user to gain privileges by writing to /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/buffer_size_kb. The issue is fixed in kernel 4.6.1 and later. Affected pro...