Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-3007-1)

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-3007-1 linux-raspi2 vulnerabilities

Justin Yackoski discovered that the Atheros L2 Ethernet Driver in the Linux kernel incorrectly enables scatter/gather I/O. A remote attacker could use this to obtain potentially sensitive information from kernel memory. CVE-2016-2117 Jann Horn discovered that eCryptfs improperly attempted to use...

USN-3007-1: Linux kernel (Raspberry Pi 2) vulnerabilities

Justin Yackoski discovered that the Atheros L2 Ethernet Driver in the Linux kernel incorrectly enables scatter/gather I/O. A remote attacker could use this to obtain potentially sensitive information from kernel memory. CVE-2016-2117 Jann Horn discovered that eCryptfs improperly attempted to use...

USN-3006-1 linux vulnerabilities

Justin Yackoski discovered that the Atheros L2 Ethernet Driver in the Linux kernel incorrectly enables scatter/gather I/O. A remote attacker could use this to obtain potentially sensitive information from kernel memory. CVE-2016-2117 Jann Horn discovered that eCryptfs improperly attempted to use...

USN-3006-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Justin Yackoski discovered that the Atheros L2 Ethernet Driver in the Linux kernel incorrectly enables scatter/gather I/O. A remote attacker could use this to obtain potentially sensitive information from kernel memory. CVE-2016-2117 Jann Horn discovered that eCryptfs improperly attempted to use...

USN-3005-1 linux-lts-xenial vulnerabilities

Justin Yackoski discovered that the Atheros L2 Ethernet Driver in the Linux kernel incorrectly enables scatter/gather I/O. A remote attacker could use this to obtain potentially sensitive information from kernel memory. CVE-2016-2117 Jann Horn discovered that eCryptfs improperly attempted to use...

USN-3005-1: Linux kernel (Xenial HWE) vulnerabilities

Justin Yackoski discovered that the Atheros L2 Ethernet Driver in the Linux kernel incorrectly enables scatter/gather I/O. A remote attacker could use this to obtain potentially sensitive information from kernel memory. CVE-2016-2117 Jann Horn discovered that eCryptfs improperly attempted to use...

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS : Linux kernel (Raspberry Pi 2) vulnerabilities (USN-3007-1)

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-3007-1 advisory. Justin Yackoski discovered that the Atheros L2 Ethernet Driver in the Linux kernel incorrectly enables scatter/gather I/O. A remote attacker could use th...

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : Linux kernel (Xenial HWE) vulnerabilities (USN-3005-1)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-3005-1 advisory. Justin Yackoski discovered that the Atheros L2 Ethernet Driver in the Linux kernel incorrectly enables scatter/gather I/O. A remote attacker could use th...

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS : Linux kernel vulnerabilities (USN-3006-1)

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-3006-1 advisory. Justin Yackoski discovered that the Atheros L2 Ethernet Driver in the Linux kernel incorrectly enables scatter/gather I/O. A remote attacker could use th...

openSUSE Security Update : the Linux Kernel (openSUSE-2016-629)

The openSUSE Leap 42.1 kernel was updated to receive various security and bugfixes. The following security bugs were fixed : - CVE-2016-2847: Limit the per-user amount of pages allocated in pipes bsc970948. - CVE-2016-3136: mctu232: add sanity checking in probe bnc970955. - CVE-2016-2188:...

Security update for the Linux Kernel (important)

The openSUSE Leap 42.1 kernel was updated to receive various security and bugfixes. The following security bugs were fixed: - CVE-2016-2847: Limit the per-user amount of pages allocated in pipes bsc970948. - CVE-2016-3136: mctu232: add sanity checking in probe bnc970955. - CVE-2016-2188: iowarrio...

Oracle Linux 5 / 6 : Unbreakable Enterprise kernel (ELSA-2016-3567)

The remote Oracle Linux 5 / 6 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2016-3567 advisory. - net: add validation for the socket syscall protocol argument Hannes Frederic Sowa Orabug: 23267965 CVE-2015-8543 CVE-2015-8543 - ext4: Fix null...

Oracle Linux 5 / 6 : Unbreakable Enterprise kernel (ELSA-2016-3566)

The remote Oracle Linux 5 / 6 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2016-3566 advisory. - net: add validation for the socket syscall protocol argument Hannes Frederic Sowa Orabug: 23267976 CVE-2015-8543 CVE-2015-8543 - ipv6: addrconf:...

Unbreakable Enterprise kernel security update

kernel-uek 2.6.32-400.37.17 - net: add validation for the socket syscall protocol argument Hannes Frederic Sowa Orabug: 23267965 CVE-2015-8543 CVE-2015-8543 - ext4: Fix null dereference in ext4fillsuper Ben Hutchings Orabug: 23263398 CVE-2015-8324 CVE-2015-8324 - ipv6: addrconf: validate new MTU...

Unbreakable Enterprise kernel security update

2.6.39-400.278.3 - net: add validation for the socket syscall protocol argument Hannes Frederic Sowa Orabug: 23267976 CVE-2015-8543 CVE-2015-8543 - ipv6: addrconf: validate new MTU before applying it Marcelo Leitner Orabug: 23263251 CVE-2015-8215 - ext4: avoid hang when mounting non-journal...

Medium: kernel

Issue Overview: The Linux kernel did not properly suppress hugetlbfs support in x86 PV guests, which could allow local PV guest users to cause a denial of service guest OS crash by attempting to access a hugetlbfs mapped area. CVE-2016-3961 / XSA-174 A flaw was found in the way the Linux kernel's...

kernel: Null pointer dereference when mounting ext4

A NULL pointer dereference flaw was found in the way the Linux kernel's ext4 file system driver handled certain corrupted file system images. An attacker with physical access to the system could use this flaw to crash the system...

Linux kernel ext4 implementation denial of service vulnerability

The Linux kernel is the kernel used by the operating system Linux, released by the Linux Foundation in the United States. A security vulnerability exists in the ext4 implementation of Linux kernel versions prior to 2.6.34, which arises from a program's failure to properly track the initialization...

CVE-2015-8839

Multiple race conditions in the ext4 filesystem implementation in the Linux kernel before 4.5 allow local users to cause a denial of service disk corruption by writing to a page that is associated with a different user's file after unsynchronized hole punching and page-fault handling...