Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-2978-1)

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...

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS : Linux kernel (Raspberry Pi 2) vulnerability (USN-2979-3)

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-2979-3 advisory. Philip Pettersson discovered that the Linux kernel's ASN.1 DER decoder did not properly process certificate files with tags of indefinite length. A local...

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS : Linux kernel vulnerabilities (USN-2979-1)

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-2979-1 advisory. David Matlack discovered that the Kernel-based Virtual Machine KVM implementation in the Linux kernel did not properly restrict variable Memory Type Rang...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-2979-3)

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...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-2977-1)

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-2979-4: Linux kernel (Qualcomm Snapdragon) vulnerability

Philip Pettersson discovered that the Linux kernel's ASN.1 DER decoder did not properly process certificate files with tags of indefinite length. A local unprivileged attacker could use this to cause a denial of service system crash or possibly execute arbitrary code with administrative privilege...

USN-2979-3: Linux kernel (Raspberry Pi 2) vulnerability

Philip Pettersson discovered that the Linux kernel's ASN.1 DER decoder did not properly process certificate files with tags of indefinite length. A local unprivileged attacker could use this to cause a denial of service system crash or possibly execute arbitrary code with administrative privilege...

USN-2979-2 linux-lts-xenial vulnerabilities

USN-2979-1 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 LTS. David Matlack discovered that the Kernel-based Virtual Machine KVM implementation in t...

USN-2979-2: Linux kernel (Xenial HWE) vulnerabilities

USN-2979-1 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 LTS. David Matlack discovered that the Kernel-based Virtual Machine KVM implementation in t...

USN-2979-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

David Matlack discovered that the Kernel-based Virtual Machine KVM implementation in the Linux kernel did not properly restrict variable Memory Type Range Registers MTRR in KVM guests. A privileged user in a guest VM could use this to cause a denial of service system crash in the host, expose...

USN-2978-3: Linux kernel (Raspberry Pi 2) vulnerability

Philip Pettersson discovered that the Linux kernel's ASN.1 DER decoder did not properly process certificate files with tags of indefinite length. A local unprivileged attacker could use this to cause a denial of service system crash or possibly execute arbitrary code with administrative privilege...

USN-2978-2: Linux kernel (Wily HWE) vulnerabilities

USN-2978-1 fixed vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel for Ubuntu 15.10. This update provides the corresponding updates for the Linux Hardware Enablement HWE kernel from Ubuntu 15.10 for Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. David Matlack discovered that the Kernel-based Virtual Machine KVM implementation in the Linux...

USN-2978-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

David Matlack discovered that the Kernel-based Virtual Machine KVM implementation in the Linux kernel did not properly restrict variable Memory Type Range Registers MTRR in KVM guests. A privileged user in a guest VM could use this to cause a denial of service system crash in the host, expose...

USN-2976-1: Linux kernel (Utopic HWE) vulnerability

Philip Pettersson discovered that the Linux kernel's ASN.1 DER decoder did not properly process certificate files with tags of indefinite length. A local unprivileged attacker could use this to cause a denial of service system crash or possibly execute arbitrary code with administrative privilege...

USN-2975-2: Linux kernel (Trusty HWE) vulnerability

USN-2975-1 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. Philip Pettersson discovered that the Linux kernel's ASN.1 DER decoder did not properl...

USN-2975-1: Linux kernel vulnerability

Philip Pettersson discovered that the Linux kernel's ASN.1 DER decoder did not properly process certificate files with tags of indefinite length. A local unprivileged attacker could use this to cause a denial of service system crash or possibly execute arbitrary code with administrative privilege...

kernel: tags with indefinite length can corrupt pointers in asn1_find_indefinite_length()

A flaw was found in the way the Linux kernel's ASN.1 DER decoder processed certain certificate files with tags of indefinite length. A local, unprivileged user could use a specially crafted X.509 certificate DER file to crash the system or, potentially, escalate their privileges on the system...

Fedora 20 : libtasn1-3.8-3.fc20 (2015-5182)

backported fix for stack overflow in DER decoder Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues...

RHEL 5 / 6 : Red Hat Satellite IBM Java Runtime (RHSA-2015:0264)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 5 / 6 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2015:0264 advisory. This update corrects several security vulnerabilities in the IBM Java Runtime Environment shipped as part of Red Hat Satellite 5.6. In a...

OpenJDK: DER decoder infinite loop (Security, 8059485)

A flaw was found in the way the DER Distinguished Encoding Rules decoder in the Security component in OpenJDK handled negative length values. A specially crafted, DER-encoded input could cause a Java application to enter an infinite loop when decoded...