Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: kernel-rt security and bug fix update

An update for kernel-rt is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from...

Report: Missouri Governor’s Office Responsible for Teacher Data Leak

Missouri Governor Mike Parson made headlines last year when he vowed to criminally prosecute a journalist for reporting a security flaw in a state website that exposed personal information of more than 100,000 teachers. But Missouri prosecutors now say they will not pursue charges following...

kernel: xfs: raw block device data leak in XFS_IOC_ALLOCSP IOCTL

A data leak flaw was found in the way XFSIOCALLOCSP IOCTL in the XFS filesystem allowed for size increase of files with unaligned size. A local attacker could use this flaw to leak data on the XFS filesystem otherwise not accessible to them...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: kernel security and bug fix update

An update for kernel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 Extended Update Support. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: kpatch-patch security update

An update for kpatch-patch is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: kpatch-patch security update

An update is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 Extended Update Support. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each...

kernel: xfs: raw block device data leak in XFS_IOC_ALLOCSP IOCTL

A data leak flaw was found in the way XFSIOCALLOCSP IOCTL in the XFS filesystem allowed for size increase of files with unaligned size. A local attacker could use this flaw to leak data on the XFS filesystem otherwise not accessible to them...

Ubuntu 16.04 ESM / 18.04 LTS : Linux kernel vulnerabilities (USN-5298-1)

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 ESM / 18.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-5298-1 advisory. It was discovered that the Packet network protocol implementation in the Linux kernel contained a double- free vulnerability. A local attacke...

Ubuntu 20.04 LTS : Linux kernel vulnerabilities (USN-5295-2)

The remote Ubuntu 20.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-5295-2 advisory. It was discovered that the Packet network protocol implementation in the Linux kernel contained a double- free vulnerability. A local attacker could use...

RHEL 7 : kpatch-patch (RHSA-2022:0592)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2022:0592 advisory. This is a kernel live patch module which is automatically loaded by the RPM post-install script to modify the code of a running kernel...

RHEL 8 : kpatch-patch (RHSA-2022:0590)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2022:0590 advisory. This is a kernel live patch module which is automatically loaded by the RPM post-install script to modify the code of a running kernel...

Ubuntu 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS : Linux kernel (GKE) vulnerabilities (USN-5297-1)

The remote Ubuntu 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-5297-1 advisory. Szymon Heidrich discovered that the USB Gadget subsystem in the Linux kernel did not properly restrict the size of control requests for certa...

RHEL 7 : kernel-rt (RHSA-2022:0622)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2022:0622 advisory. The kernel-rt packages provide the Real Time Linux Kernel, which enables fine-tuning for systems with extremely high determinism requirement...

Ubuntu 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS : Linux kernel vulnerabilities (USN-5294-2)

The remote Ubuntu 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-5294-2 advisory. It was discovered that the Packet network protocol implementation in the Linux kernel contained a double- free vulnerability. A local attacke...

Ubuntu 20.04 LTS : Linux kernel vulnerabilities (USN-5294-1)

The remote Ubuntu 20.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-5294-1 advisory. It was discovered that the Packet network protocol implementation in the Linux kernel contained a double- free vulnerability. A local attacker could use...

Ubuntu 20.04 LTS : Linux kernel (HWE) vulnerabilities (USN-5295-1)

The remote Ubuntu 20.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-5295-1 advisory. It was discovered that the Packet network protocol implementation in the Linux kernel contained a double- free vulnerability. A local attacker could use...

Oracle Linux 7 / 8 : Unbreakable Enterprise kernel-container (ELSA-2022-9148)

The remote Oracle Linux 7 / 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2022-9148 advisory. - cgroup-v1: Require capabilities to set releaseagent Eric W. Biederman Orabug: 33832582 CVE-2022-0492 - tee: handle lookup of shm with reference...

kernel: xfs: raw block device data leak in XFS_IOC_ALLOCSP IOCTL

A data leak flaw was found in the way XFSIOCALLOCSP IOCTL in the XFS filesystem allowed for size increase of files with unaligned size. A local attacker could use this flaw to leak data on the XFS filesystem otherwise not accessible to them...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: kernel security update

An update for kernel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6 Advanced Update Support, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6 Telco Extended Update Support, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6 Update Services for SAP Solutions. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impac...

kernel: xfs: raw block device data leak in XFS_IOC_ALLOCSP IOCTL

A data leak flaw was found in the way XFSIOCALLOCSP IOCTL in the XFS filesystem allowed for size increase of files with unaligned size. A local attacker could use this flaw to leak data on the XFS filesystem otherwise not accessible to them...