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

An update for kernel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. 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 each vulnerability from th...

CVE-2016-10905

A flaw was found in the resource group management of the GFS2 filesystem. A local attacker can use this flaw to cause a use-after-free error, which can be used to crash the system, corrupt memory, or escalate privileges. Mitigation At this time there is no known mitigation for this flaw, but...

USN-4145-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

It was discovered that a race condition existed in the GFS2 file system in the Linux kernel. A local attacker could possibly use this to cause a denial of service system crash. CVE-2016-10905 It was discovered that the IPv6 implementation in the Linux kernel did not properly validate socket optio...

USN-4145-1 linux, linux-aws, linux-kvm, linux-raspi2, linux-snapdragon vulnerabilities

It was discovered that a race condition existed in the GFS2 file system in the Linux kernel. A local attacker could possibly use this to cause a denial of service system crash. CVE-2016-10905 It was discovered that the IPv6 implementation in the Linux kernel did not properly validate socket optio...

Debian DLA-1930-1 : linux security update

Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Linux kernel that may lead to a privilege escalation, denial of service or information leaks. CVE-2016-10905 A race condition was discovered in the GFS2 file-system implementation, which could lead to a use-after-free. On a system using GFS2, a...

Linux kernel resource management error vulnerability (CNVD-2019-32362)

Linux kernel is the kernel used by Linux, the open source operating system released by the Linux Foundation in the United States. The 'gfs2clearrgrpd' and 'readrindexentry' functions in the fs/gfs2/rgrp.c file in versions of the Linux kernel prior to 4.8 have a Resource Management Error...

Double free

An issue was discovered in fs/gfs2/rgrp.c in the Linux kernel before 4.8. A use-after-free is caused by the functions gfs2clearrgrpd and readrindexentry...

CVE-2016-10905

CVE-2016-10905: A use-after-free in Linux kernel fs/gfs2/rgrp.c (pre-4.8) is caused by gfs2_clear_rgrpd and read_rindex_entry. Several Nessus/OpenVAS/SUSE/F5 advisories reference this CVE and map it to vulnerable kernel versions and affected distributions; the public text confirms the flaw but do...

UBUNTU-CVE-2016-10905

An issue was discovered in fs/gfs2/rgrp.c in the Linux kernel before 4.8. A use-after-free is caused by the functions gfs2clearrgrpd and readrindexentry...

CVE-2016-10905

An issue was discovered in fs/gfs2/rgrp.c in the Linux kernel before 4.8. A use-after-free is caused by the functions gfs2clearrgrpd and readrindexentry...

SUSE SLES11 Security Update : various KMPs (SUSE-SU-2019:13999-1) (Spectre)

This update rebuilds missing kernel modules KMP to use 'retpolines' mitigations for Spectre Variant 2 CVE-2017-5715. Rebuilt KMP packages : cluster-network drbd gfs2 iscsitarget ocfs2 ofed oracleasm Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the...

Troubleshooting common issues with XenServer clustered pools and GFS2 SRs

XenServer uses GFS2 to make thin provisioning available by using block-based storage devices that are accessed through iSCSI software initiator or Hardware HBA. This article provides a guide for troubleshooting common issues when GFS2 SRThin Provisioning is being used in XenServer or Citrix...

Red Hat glusterfs server RPC request processor component arbitrary file creation vulnerability

Red Hat glusterfs server is an open source distributed file system from Red Hat Red Hat. The system is mainly for media streaming , data analysis and other data and bandwidth intensive tasks to create large-scale distributed storage solutions. A security vulnerability exists in the 'gfs2createreq...

glusterfs: Arbitrary file creation on storage server allows for execution of arbitrary code

A flaw was found in RPC request using gfs2createreq in glusterfs server. An authenticated attacker could use this flaw to create arbitrary files and execute arbitrary code on glusterfs server nodes...

Troubleshooting thin provisioning for shared block storage on XenServer

XenServer and Citrix Hypervisor use GFS2 to provide the ability to set up thin provisioning with a shared block storage device. Pools that use GFS2 to thin provision their shared block storage are clustered and behave differently to pools that use shared file-based storage or LVM with shared bloc...

kernel security and bug fix update

2.6.32-754.2.1.OL6 - Update genkey bug 25599697 2.6.32-754.2.1 - x86 entry/64: Don't use IST entry for BP stack Waiman Long 1596113 CVE-2018-10872 - fs gfs2: Flush delayed work earlier in gfs2inodelookup Andreas Grunbacher 1506281 - mm mempolicy: fix use after free when calling getmempolicy Augus...

kernel security and bug fix update

2.6.32-754.OL6 - Update genkey bug 25599697 2.6.32-754 - powerpc 64s: Add support for a store forwarding barrier at kernel entry/exit Mauricio Oliveira 1581053 CVE-2018-3639 - x86 amd: Disable AMD SSBD mitigation in a VM Waiman Long 1580360 - x86 specctrl: Fix late microcode problem with AMD Waim...

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...

Scientific Linux Security Update : kernel on SL6.x i386/x86_64 (20171006)

Security Fixes : - Kernel memory corruption due to a buffer overflow was found in brcmfcfg80211mgmttx function in Linux kernels from v3.9-rc1 to v4.13-rc1. The vulnerability can be triggered by sending a crafted NL80211CMDFRAME packet via netlink. This flaw is unlikely to be triggered remotely as...

CentOS Update for kernel CESA-2017:2863 centos6

Check the version of kernel 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 scriptoid"1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.882783";...