Unspecified Denial of Service Vulnerability in Linux kernel

Linux kernel is an open source operating system. A denial of service vulnerability exists in Linux kernel, which can be exploited by remote attackers to cause a deadlock and conduct denial of service attacks...

Network Block Device nbd-server.c Insecure Signal Handling Denial of Service Vulnerability

Network Block Device NBD is a stable, efficient open source network storage software can be used to build Linux-based network storage system. Network Block Device nbd-server.c insecure use of the signal processor allows remote attackers to exploit vulnerabilities for deadlock attacks that can lea...

PT-2018-4296 · Linux +2 · Linux Kernel +2

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Linux kernel affected versions not specified Description: The issue allows local users to cause a denial of service, resulting in a deadlock, by spawning new processes within a memory-constrained cgroup. This is related to the memory resource...

Security update for the Linux Kernel (important)

The Linux kernel was updated to fix various bugs and security issues. Following security issues were fixed: - CVE-2014-8173: A NULL pointer dereference flaw was found in the way the Linux kernels madvise MADVWILLNEED functionality handled page table locking. A local, unprivileged user could have...

kernel, perf, python security update

CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-2015:0726 Updated kernel packages that fix two security issues and several bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having Important security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS...

CentOS 7 : kernel (CESA-2015:0726)

Updated kernel packages that fix two security issues and several bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having Important security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base scores, which give detailed severity ratings, a...

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

Updated kernel-rt packages that fix two security issues and several bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise MRG 2.5. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having Important security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base scores, which give detailed severity ratings...

Scientific Linux Security Update : ipa and slapi-nis on SL7.x x86_64 (20150326)

The ipa component provides centrally managed Identity, Policy, and Audit. The slapi-nis component provides NIS Server and Schema Compatibility plug- ins for Directory Server. It was discovered that the IPA extdom Directory Server plug-in did not correctly perform memory reallocation when handling...

kernel update for Evergreen 11.4, includes leap second deadlock fix (important)

kernel update for Evergreen 11.4, includes leap second deadlock fix and fixes for other security and stability issues...

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

Updated kernel packages that fix multiple security issues and two bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.2 Advanced Update Support. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having Important security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base scores, which give...

USN-2516-3: Linux kernel vulnerabilities regression

USN-2516-1 fixed vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel, and the fix in USN-2516-2 was incomplete. There was an unrelated regression in the use of the virtual counter CNTVCT on arm64 architectures. This update fixes the problem. We apologize for the inconvenience. Original advisory details: A flaw w...

USN-2515-2: Linux kernel (Trusty HWE) vulnerabilities regression

USN-2515-1 fixed vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel. There was an unrelated regression in the use of the virtual counter CNTVCT on arm64 architectures. This update fixes the problem. We apologize for the inconvenience. Original advisory details: A flaw was discovered in the Kernel Virtual...

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : Linux kernel vulnerability regression (USN-2516-2)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-2516-2 advisory. USN-2516-1 fixed vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel. There was an unrelated regression in the use of the virtual counter CNTVCT on arm64 architectures. This upda...

USN-2516-2: Linux kernel vulnerability regression

USN-2516-1 fixed vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel. There was an unrelated regression in the use of the virtual counter CNTVCT on arm64 architectures. This update fixes the problem. We apologize for the inconvenience. Original advisory details: A flaw was discovered in the Kernel Virtual...

Ubuntu 14.10 : linux vulnerabilities (USN-2518-1)

A flaw was discovered in the Kernel Virtual Machine's KVM emulation of the SYSTENTER instruction when the guest OS does not initialize the SYSENTER MSRs. A guest OS user could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service of the guest OS crash or potentially gain privileges on the guest OS...

USN-2516-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

A flaw was discovered in the Kernel Virtual Machine's KVM emulation of the SYSTENTER instruction when the guest OS does not initialize the SYSENTER MSRs. A guest OS user could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service of the guest OS crash or potentially gain privileges on the guest OS...

SuSE 11.3 Security Update : kvm and libvirt (SAT Patch Number 10222)

This collective update for KVM and libvirt provides fixes for security and non-security issues. kvm : - Fix NULL pointer dereference because of uninitialized UDP socket. bsc897654, CVE-2014-3640 - Fix performance degradation after migration. bsc878350 - Fix potential image corruption due to missi...

Debian DSA-3170-1 : linux - security update

Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Linux kernel that may lead to a denial of service, information leaks or privilege escalation. - CVE-2013-7421 / CVE-2014-9644 It was discovered that the Crypto API allowed unprivileged users to load arbitrary kernel modules. A local user can use...

Fedora 21 : libvirt-1.2.9.2-1.fc21 (2015-1892)

Rebased to version 1.2.9.2 - CVE-2014-8131: deadlock and segfault in qemuConnectGetAllDomainStats bz 1172571 - CVE-2015-0236: missing ACL check for the VIRDOMAINXMLSECURE flag in save images and snapshots objects bz 1185769 - CVE-2014-8136: local denial of service in qemu/qemudriver.c bz 1176179...

USN-2492-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Andy Lutomirski discovered an information leak in the Linux kernel's Thread Local Storage TLS implementation allowing users to bypass the espfix to obtain information that could be used to bypass the Address Space Layout Randomization ASLR protection mechanism. A local user could exploit this fla...