openSUSE Security Update : the Linux Kernel (openSUSE-2016-753)

The openSUSE Leap 42.1 kernel was updated to 4.1.26 to receive various security and bugfixes. The following security bugs were fixed : - CVE-2016-1583: Prevent the usage of mmap when the lower file system does not allow it. This could have lead to local privilege escalation when ecryptfs-utils wa...

Linux kernel devio information disclosure vulnerability

The Linux kernel is the kernel used by the operating system Linux, released by the Linux Foundation in the United States. An information disclosure vulnerability exists in the Linux kernel's devio, which stems from a program's failure to initialize the padding bytes in the 'map' stack object. An...

Ubuntu 4.10 / 5.10 : linux-source-2.6.8.1/-2.6.10/-2.6.12 vulnerabilities (USN-219-1)

Al Viro discovered a race condition in the /proc file handler of network devices. A local attacker could exploit this by opening any file in /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf// and waiting until that interface was shut down. Under certain circumstances this could lead to a kernel crash or even arbitrary co...

kernel security update

CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-2006:0575 Updated kernel packages are now available as part of ongoing support and maintenance of Red Hat Enterprise Linux version 4. This update has been rated as having important security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team. The Linux kernel...

RHEL 4 : kernel (RHSA-2006:0575)

Updated kernel packages are now available as part of ongoing support and maintenance of Red Hat Enterprise Linux version 4. This update has been rated as having important security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team. The Linux kernel handles the basic functions of the operating system...

kernel security update

CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-2006:0579-01 Updated kernel packages that fix a number of security issues as well as other bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1 32 bit architectures This security advisory has been rated as having important security impact by the Red Hat...

Moderate: Red Hat Security Advisory: kernel security update

Updated kernel packages that fix a number of security issues as well as other bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1 64 bit architectures This security advisory has been rated as having moderate security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team. The Linux kernel handles the...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: kernel security update

Updated kernel packages that fix a number of security issues as well as other bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1 32 bit architectures This security advisory has been rated as having important security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team. The Linux kernel handles the...