Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-4211-2)

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...

OracleVM 3.4 : Unbreakable / etc (OVMSA-2020-0044)

The remote OracleVM system is missing necessary patches to address critical security updates : please see Oracle VM Security Advisory OVMSA-2020-0044 for details. C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The package checks in this plugin were extracted from OracleVM Security Advisory OVMSA-2020-0044...

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...

CVE-2019-17075

A denial of service DoS was found in the writetptentry in drivers/infiniband/hw/cxgb4/mem.c in the cxgb4' Chelsio T4/T5 RDMA Driver. Some of the architectures performing the DMA operation directly from the stack variable instead of the heap allows an attacker in the network to cause some security...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-4208-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2019 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-4210-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2019 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-4211-2: Linux kernel (Xenial HWE) vulnerabilities

USN-4211-1 fixed vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel for Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. This update provides the corresponding updates for the Linux Hardware Enablement HWE kernel from Ubuntu 16.04 LTS for Ubuntu 14.04 ESM. Zhipeng Xie discovered that an infinite loop could be triggered in the CFS Linux kerne...

USN-4211-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Zhipeng Xie discovered that an infinite loop could be triggered in the CFS Linux kernel process scheduler. A local attacker could possibly use this to cause a denial of service. CVE-2018-20784 Nicolas Waisman discovered that the WiFi driver stack in the Linux kernel did not properly validate SSID...

Ubuntu 18.04 LTS : Linux kernel vulnerabilities (USN-4208-1)

The remote Ubuntu 18.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-4208-1 advisory. Jann Horn discovered that the OverlayFS and ShiftFS Drivers in the Linux kernel did not properly handle reference counting during memory mapping operatio...

Slackware 14.2 : Slackware 14.2 kernel (SSA:2019-311-01)

New kernel packages are available for Slackware 14.2 to fix security issues. C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from Slackware Security Advisory 2019-311-01. The text itself is copyright C Slackware Linux, Inc. include'compat.inc...

[slackware-security] Slackware 14.2 kernel

New kernel packages are available for Slackware 14.2 to fix security issues. Here are the details from the Slackware 14.2 ChangeLog: patches/packages/linux-4.4.199/: Upgraded. These updates fix various bugs and security issues. Be sure to upgrade your initrd after upgrading the kernel packages. I...

CVE-2019-17075

An issue was discovered in writetptentry in drivers/infiniband/hw/cxgb4/mem.c in the Linux kernel through 5.3.2. The cxgb4 driver is directly calling dmamapsingle a DMA function from a stack variable. This could allow an attacker to trigger a Denial of Service, exploitable if this driver is used ...

CVE-2019-17075

An issue was discovered in writetptentry in drivers/infiniband/hw/cxgb4/mem.c in the Linux kernel through 5.3.2. The cxgb4 driver is directly calling dmamapsingle a DMA function from a stack variable. This could allow an attacker to trigger a Denial of Service, exploitable if this driver is used ...

CVE-2019-17075

CVE-2019-17075 affects the Linux kernel cxgb4 InfiniBand driver. The issue arises in mem.c: the driver calls DMA mapping (dma_map_single) from a stack variable, which can be triggered to cause a Denial of Service on architectures where stack/DMA interaction is relevant. Connected Nessus advisorie...