Ubuntu 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS : Linux kernel vulnerabilities (USN-4115-1)

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-4115-1 advisory. Hui Peng and Mathias Payer discovered that the Option USB High Speed driver in the Linux kernel did not properly validate metadata received...

USN-4115-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Hui Peng and Mathias Payer discovered that the Option USB High Speed driver in the Linux kernel did not properly validate metadata received from the device. A physically proximate attacker could use this to cause a denial of service system crash. CVE-2018-19985 Zhipeng Xie discovered that an...

openSUSE Security Update : the Linux Kernel (openSUSE-2016-1438)

The openSUSE 14.2 kernel was updated to receive various security and bugfixes. The following security bugs were fixed : - CVE-2016-9576: A use-after-free vulnerability in the SCSI generic driver allows users with write access to /dev/sg or /dev/bsg to elevate their privileges bsc1013604. The...