USN-3698-1 linux vulnerabilities

It was discovered that the nested KVM implementation in the Linux kernel in some situations did not properly prevent second level guests from reading and writing the hardware CR8 register. A local attacker in a guest could use this to cause a denial of service system crash. CVE-2017-12154 Fan Wu,...

kernel: Integer overflow in futex.c:futux_requeue can lead to denial of service or unspecified impact

The futexrequeue function in kernel/futex.c in the Linux kernel, before 4.14.15, might allow attackers to cause a denial of service integer overflow or possibly have unspecified other impacts by triggering a negative wake or requeue value. Due to the nature of the flaw, privilege escalation canno...

Oracle Linux 5 : kernel (ELSA-2014-0740)

The remote Oracle Linux 5 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2014-0740 advisory. - infiniband rds: dereference of a NULL device Jacob Tanenbaum 1079216 1079217 CVE-2013-7339 - block floppy: don't write kernel-only members to FDRAWCM...