UPDATE: Kali Linux 2017.3 Release!

PenTestIT RSS Feed After a long hiatus, it's good to be back and posting about the latest Kali Linux 2017.3 release! The last Kali Linux release was made available a couple of months ago. Presumably, this new release includes all patches, fixes, updates, and improvements since the last release...

Security update for the Linux Kernel (important)

The openSUSE Leap 42.2 kernel was updated to 4.4.92 to receive various security and bugfixes. The following security bugs were fixed: - CVE-2017-13080: Wi-Fi Protected Access WPA and WPA2 allowed reinstallation of the Group Temporal Key GTK during the group key handshake, allowing an attacker...

openSUSE Security Update : the Linux Kernel (openSUSE-2017-1160)

The openSUSE Leap 42.3 kernel was updated to 4.4.90 to receive various security and bugfixes. The following security bugs were fixed : - CVE-2017-1000252: The KVM subsystem in the Linux kernel allowed guest OS users to cause a denial of service assertion failure, and hypervisor hang or crash via ...

openSUSE Security Update : the Linux Kernel (openSUSE-2017-1159)

The openSUSE Leap 42.2 Kernel was updated to 4.4.90 to receive various security and bugfixes. The following security bugs were fixed : - CVE-2017-1000252: The KVM subsystem in the Linux kernel allowed guest OS users to cause a denial of service assertion failure, and hypervisor hang or crash via ...

Security update for the Linux Kernel (important)

The openSUSE Leap 42.3 kernel was updated to 4.4.90 to receive various security and bugfixes. The following security bugs were fixed: - CVE-2017-1000252: The KVM subsystem in the Linux kernel allowed guest OS users to cause a denial of service assertion failure, and hypervisor hang or crash via a...

Security update for the Linux Kernel (important)

The openSUSE Leap 42.2 Kernel was updated to 4.4.90 to receive various security and bugfixes. The following security bugs were fixed: - CVE-2017-1000252: The KVM subsystem in the Linux kernel allowed guest OS users to cause a denial of service assertion failure, and hypervisor hang or crash via a...

USN-3405-2: Linux kernel (Xenial HWE) vulnerabilities | Cloud Foundry

Severity Medium Vendor Canonical Ubuntu Versions Affected Canonical Ubuntu 14.04 Description USN-3405-1 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 14.0...

kernel: ext4: power failure during write(2) causes on-disk information leak

A vulnerability was found in the Linux kernel where filesystems mounted with data=ordered mode may allow an attacker to read stale data from recently allocated blocks in new files after a system 'reset' by abusing ext4 mechanics of delayed allocation...

kernel: ext4 filesystem page fault race condition with fallocate call.

A flaw was found in the Linux kernel when attempting to "punch a hole" in files existing on an ext4 filesystem. When punching holes into a file races with the page fault of the same area, it is possible that freed blocks remain referenced from page cache pages mapped to process' address space...

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : Linux kernel (Xenial HWE) vulnerabilities (USN-3405-2)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-3405-2 advisory. USN-3405-1 fixed vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel for Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. This update provides the corresponding updates for the Linux Hardware Enableme...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-3405-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2017 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 vulnerabilities (USN-3405-1)

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-3405-1 advisory. It was discovered that a use-after-free vulnerability existed in the POSIX message queue implementation in the Linux kernel. A local attacker could use...

USN-3405-2: Linux kernel (Xenial HWE) vulnerabilities

USN-3405-1 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. It was discovered that a use-after-free vulnerability existed in the POSIX message que...

USN-3405-2 linux-lts-xenial vulnerabilities

USN-3405-1 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. It was discovered that a use-after-free vulnerability existed in the POSIX message que...

USN-3406-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

It was discovered that an out of bounds read vulnerability existed in the associative array implementation in the Linux kernel. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service system crash or expose sensitive information. CVE-2016-7914 It was discovered that a NULL pointer dereferenc...

USN-3406-1 linux vulnerabilities

It was discovered that an out of bounds read vulnerability existed in the associative array implementation in the Linux kernel. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service system crash or expose sensitive information. CVE-2016-7914 It was discovered that a NULL pointer dereferenc...

USN-3405-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

It was discovered that a use-after-free vulnerability existed in the POSIX message queue implementation in the Linux kernel. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service system crash or possibly execute arbitrary code. CVE-2017-11176 Huang Weller discovered that the ext4 filesyste...

USN-3405-1 linux, linux-aws, linux-gke, linux-raspi2, linux-snapdragon vulnerabilities

It was discovered that a use-after-free vulnerability existed in the POSIX message queue implementation in the Linux kernel. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service system crash or possibly execute arbitrary code. CVE-2017-11176 Huang Weller discovered that the ext4 filesyste...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: kernel security and bug fix update

An update for kernel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.3 Extended Update Support. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for...

EulerOS 2.0 SP2 : kernel (EulerOS-SA-2017-1155)

According to the versions of the kernel packages installed, the EulerOS installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerabilities : - An issue was discovered in the size of the stack guard page on Linux, specifically a 4k stack guard page is not sufficiently large and can be...