Important: Red Hat Bug Fix Advisory: dracut bug fix update

Updated dracut packages that fix one bug are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. The dracut packages contain an event-driven initial RAM file system initramfs generator infrastructure based on the udev device manager. The virtual file system, initramfs, is loaded together with the kerne...

CVE-2016-5759

The mkdumprd script called "dracut" in the current working directory "." allows local users to trick the administrator into executing code as root...

SUSE SLES12 Security Update : dracut (SUSE-SU-2017:2696-1)

This update for dracut fixes the following issues: Security issues fixed : - CVE-2016-8637: When the early microcode loading was enabled during initrd creation, the initrd would be read-only available for all users, allowing local users to retrieve secrets stored in the initial ramdisk. bsc100834...

SUSE-SU-2017:2696-1 Security update for dracut

This update for dracut fixes the following issues: Security issues fixed: - CVE-2016-8637: When the early microcode loading was enabled during initrd creation, the initrd would be read-only available for all users, allowing local users to retrieve secrets stored in the initial ramdisk. bsc1008340...

CVE-2016-5759

The mkdumprd script called "dracut" in the current working directory "." allows local users to trick the administrator into executing code as root...

CVE-2016-5759

CVE-2016-5759 affects the mkdumprd script used by kdump environments. The vulnerability arises because mkdumprd can invoke dracut from the current directory (./dracut), enabling a local attacker to trick the administrator into executing code with root privileges. Public sources (NVD, SUSE and Red...

SUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : systemd, dracut (SUSE-SU-2017:1898-1)

This update for systemd and dracut fixes the following issues: Security issues fixed : - CVE-2017-9445: Possible out-of-bounds write triggered by a specially crafted TCP payload from a DNS server. bsc1045290 Non-security issues fixed in systemd : - Automounter issue in combination with NFS volume...

SUSE-SU-2017:1898-1 Security update for systemd, dracut

This update for systemd and dracut fixes the following issues: Security issues fixed: - CVE-2017-9445: Possible out-of-bounds write triggered by a specially crafted TCP payload from a DNS server. bsc1045290 Non-security issues fixed in systemd: - Automounter issue in combination with NFS volumes...

Virtuozzo 7 : OVMF / anaconda / anaconda-core / anaconda-dracut / etc (VZA-2017-033)

According to the version of the OVMF / anaconda / anaconda-core / anaconda-dracut / etc packages installed, the Virtuozzo installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerability : - A vulnerability in container resource limiting mechanism could potentially lead to DoS attacks...

openSUSE Security Update : dracut (openSUSE-2017-482)

This update for dracut fixes the following issues : Security issues fixed : - CVE-2016-8637: When the early microcode loading was enabled during initrd creation, the initrd would be read-only available for all users, allowing local users to retrieve secrets stored in the initial ramdisk. bsc10083...

SUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : dracut (SUSE-SU-2017:0951-1)

This update for dracut fixes the following issues: Security issues fixed : - CVE-2016-8637: When the early microcode loading was enabled during initrd creation, the initrd would be read-only available for all users, allowing local users to retrieve secrets stored in the initial ramdisk. bsc100834...

SUSE-SU-2017:0951-1 Security update for dracut

This update for dracut fixes the following issues: Security issues fixed: - CVE-2016-8637: When the early microcode loading was enabled during initrd creation, the initrd would be read-only available for all users, allowing local users to retrieve secrets stored in the initial ramdisk. bsc1008340...

openSUSE Security Update : dracut (openSUSE-2017-347)

This update for dracut fixes the following issues : Security issues fixed : - CVE-2016-8637: When the early microcode loading was enabled during initrd creation, the initrd would be read-only available for all users, allowing local users to retrieve secrets stored in the initial ramdisk. bsc10083...

SUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : dracut (SUSE-SU-2017:0641-1)

This update for dracut fixes the following issues: Security issues fixed : - CVE-2016-8637: When the early microcode loading was enabled during initrd creation, the initrd would be read-only available for all users, allowing local users to retrieve secrets stored in the initial ramdisk. bsc100834...

SUSE-SU-2017:0641-1 Security update for dracut

This update for dracut fixes the following issues: Security issues fixed: - CVE-2016-8637: When the early microcode loading was enabled during initrd creation, the initrd would be read-only available for all users, allowing local users to retrieve secrets stored in the initial ramdisk. bsc1008340...

Fedora Update for dracut FEDORA-2016-cc5006bef7

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...

Fedora Update for dracut FEDORA-2016-94d1c64fe2

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...

Fedora 24 : calamares (2016-5c7e9b8778)

A security update that fixes Calamares bug CAL-405: https://calamares.io/bugs/browse/CAL-405 When installing with a LUKS-encrypted / partition, Calamares was always creating a keyfile to decode / and storing it in the initramfs. It did that even with an unencrypted separate /boot partition. As a...

Fedora 25 : calamares (2016-561a937494)

A security update that fixes Calamares bug CAL-405: https://calamares.io/bugs/browse/CAL-405 When installing with a LUKS-encrypted / partition, Calamares was always creating a keyfile to decode / and storing it in the initramfs. It did that even with an unencrypted separate /boot partition. As a...

Fedora 25 : dracut (2016-cc5006bef7)

fixed permissions of initramfs file, if microcode is prepended CVE-2016-8637 Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system website. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without...