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

An update for kernel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.5 Extended Update Support. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for...

CVE-2017-18261

The archtimerregreadstable macro in arch/arm64/include/asm/archtimer.h in the Linux kernel, before 4.13, allows local users to cause a denial of service infinite recursion by writing to a file under /sys/kernel/debug in certain circumstances, as demonstrated by a scenario involving debugfs, ftrac...

UBUNTU-CVE-2017-18261

The archtimerregreadstable macro in arch/arm64/include/asm/archtimer.h in the Linux kernel before 4.13 allows local users to cause a denial of service infinite recursion by writing to a file under /sys/kernel/debug in certain circumstances, as demonstrated by a scenario involving debugfs, ftrace,...

CVE-2017-18261

The archtimerregreadstable macro in arch/arm64/include/asm/archtimer.h in the Linux kernel before 4.13 allows local users to cause a denial of service infinite recursion by writing to a file under /sys/kernel/debug in certain circumstances, as demonstrated by a scenario involving debugfs, ftrace,...

Design/Logic Flaw

The archtimerregreadstable macro in arch/arm64/include/asm/archtimer.h in the Linux kernel before 4.13 allows local users to cause a denial of service infinite recursion by writing to a file under /sys/kernel/debug in certain circumstances, as demonstrated by a scenario involving debugfs, ftrace,...

CVE-2017-18261

The archtimerregreadstable macro in arch/arm64/include/asm/archtimer.h in the Linux kernel before 4.13 allows local users to cause a denial of service infinite recursion by writing to a file under /sys/kernel/debug in certain circumstances, as demonstrated by a scenario involving debugfs, ftrace,...

CVE-2017-18261

The archtimerregreadstable macro in arch/arm64/include/asm/archtimer.h in the Linux kernel before 4.13 allows local users to cause a denial of service infinite recursion by writing to a file under /sys/kernel/debug in certain circumstances, as demonstrated by a scenario involving debugfs, ftrace,...

Format string

In Android before 2018-04-05 or earlier security patch level on Qualcomm Small Cell SoC, Snapdragon Mobile, and Snapdragon Wear FSM9055, MDM9206, MDM9607, MDM9635M, MDM9640, MDM9650, MSM8909W, SD 210/SD 212/SD 205, SD 400, SD 410/12, SD 425, SD 430, SD 450, SD 615/16/SD 415, SD 617, SD 625, SD...

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...

OpenSnitch - GNU/Linux port of the Little Snitch application firewall

OpenSnitch is a GNU/Linux port of the Little Snitch application firewall. Requirements You'll need a GNU/Linux distribution with iptables, NFQUEUE and ftrace kernel support. Install sudo apt-get install build-essential python3-dev python3-setuptools libnetfilter-queue-dev python3-pyqt5 python3-gi...

Application Level Firewall OpenSnitch

Application Level Firewall OpenSnitch OpenSnitch is a GNU/Linux port of the Little Snitch application firewall. OpenSnitch is an application level firewall, meaning then while running, it will detect and alert the user for every outgoing connection applications he’s running are creating. This can...

fTRACE - Customized SSL, WebView code execution vulnerabilities

HackApp vulnerability scanner discovered that application fTRACE published at the 'play' market has multiple vulnerabilities...

SOL16833 - Linux vulnerability CVE-2014-7826

kernel/trace/tracesyscalls.c in the Linux kernel through 3.17.2 does not properly handle private syscall numbers during use of the ftrace subsystem, which allows local users to gain privileges or cause a denial of service invalid pointer dereference via a crafted application. CVE-2014-7826...

SUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : kernel (SUSE-SU-2015:0068-1)

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 kernel was updated to 3.12.31 to receive various security and bugfixes. Security issues fixed: CVE-2014-9322: A local privilege escalation in the x8664 32bit compatibility signal handling was fixed, which could be used by local attackers to crash the machine or execut...

kernel: insufficient syscall number validation in perf and ftrace subsystems

An out-of-bounds memory access flaw, CVE-2014-7825, was found in the syscall tracing functionality of the Linux kernel's perf subsystem. A local, unprivileged user could use this flaw to crash the system. Additionally, an out-of-bounds memory access flaw, CVE-2014-7826, was found in the syscall...

kernel: insufficient syscall number validation in perf and ftrace subsystems

An out-of-bounds memory access flaw, CVE-2014-7825, was found in the syscall tracing functionality of the Linux kernel's perf subsystem. A local, unprivileged user could use this flaw to crash the system. Additionally, an out-of-bounds memory access flaw, CVE-2014-7826, was found in the syscall...

Scientific Linux Security Update : kernel on SL7.x x86_64 (20150305)

A flaw was found in the way the Linux kernel's XFS file system handled replacing of remote attributes under certain conditions. A local user with access to XFS file system mount could potentially use this flaw to escalate their privileges on the system. CVE-2015-0274, Important It was found that...

CentOS 7 : kernel (CESA-2015:0290)

Updated kernel packages that fix multiple security issues, address several hundred bugs, and add numerous enhancements are now available as part of the ongoing support and maintenance of Red Hat Enterprise Linux version 7. This is the first regular update. Red Hat Product Security has rated this...

kernel, perf, python security update

CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-2015:0290 Updated kernel packages that fix multiple security issues, address several hundred bugs, and add numerous enhancements are now available as part of the ongoing support and maintenance of Red Hat Enterprise Linux version 7. This is the first regul...

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

Updated kernel packages that fix multiple security issues, address several hundred bugs, and add numerous enhancements are now available as part of the ongoing support and maintenance of Red Hat Enterprise Linux version 7. This is the first regular update. Red Hat Product Security has rated this...