USN-2979-4 linux-snapdragon vulnerability

Philip Pettersson discovered that the Linux kernel's ASN.1 DER decoder did not properly process certificate files with tags of indefinite length. A local unprivileged attacker could use this to cause a denial of service system crash or possibly execute arbitrary code with administrative privilege...

USN-2979-3 linux-raspi2 vulnerability

Philip Pettersson discovered that the Linux kernel's ASN.1 DER decoder did not properly process certificate files with tags of indefinite length. A local unprivileged attacker could use this to cause a denial of service system crash or possibly execute arbitrary code with administrative privilege...

USN-2979-2: Linux kernel (Xenial HWE) vulnerabilities

USN-2979-1 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. David Matlack discovered that the Kernel-based Virtual Machine KVM implementation in t...

USN-2979-1 linux vulnerabilities

David Matlack discovered that the Kernel-based Virtual Machine KVM implementation in the Linux kernel did not properly restrict variable Memory Type Range Registers MTRR in KVM guests. A privileged user in a guest VM could use this to cause a denial of service system crash in the host, expose...

USN-2979-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

David Matlack discovered that the Kernel-based Virtual Machine KVM implementation in the Linux kernel did not properly restrict variable Memory Type Range Registers MTRR in KVM guests. A privileged user in a guest VM could use this to cause a denial of service system crash in the host, expose...

USN-2978-2: Linux kernel (Wily HWE) vulnerabilities

USN-2978-1 fixed vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel for Ubuntu 15.10. This update provides the corresponding updates for the Linux Hardware Enablement HWE kernel from Ubuntu 15.10 for Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. David Matlack discovered that the Kernel-based Virtual Machine KVM implementation in the Linux...

USN-2978-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

David Matlack discovered that the Kernel-based Virtual Machine KVM implementation in the Linux kernel did not properly restrict variable Memory Type Range Registers MTRR in KVM guests. A privileged user in a guest VM could use this to cause a denial of service system crash in the host, expose...

USN-2977-1 linux-lts-vivid vulnerability

Philip Pettersson discovered that the Linux kernel's ASN.1 DER decoder did not properly process certificate files with tags of indefinite length. A local unprivileged attacker could use this to cause a denial of service system crash or possibly execute arbitrary code with administrative privilege...

USN-2976-1 linux-lts-utopic vulnerability

Philip Pettersson discovered that the Linux kernel's ASN.1 DER decoder did not properly process certificate files with tags of indefinite length. A local unprivileged attacker could use this to cause a denial of service system crash or possibly execute arbitrary code with administrative privilege...

USN-2975-1 linux vulnerability

Philip Pettersson discovered that the Linux kernel's ASN.1 DER decoder did not properly process certificate files with tags of indefinite length. A local unprivileged attacker could use this to cause a denial of service system crash or possibly execute arbitrary code with administrative privilege...

Unbreakable Enterprise kernel security update

kernel-uek 4.1.12-37.3.1 - KEYS: Fix ASN.1 indefinite length object parsing This fixes CVE-2016-0758. David Howells Orabug: 23279022 CVE-2016-0758 - uek-rpm: ol6: revert DRM for experimental or OL6-incompatible drivers Todd Vierling Orabug: 23270829 - unix: properly account for FDs passed over un...

Oracle Linux 7 : kernel (ELSA-2016-1033)

The remote Oracle Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ELSA-2016-1033 advisory. - lib keys: Fix ASN.1 indefinite length object parsing David Howells 1308814 1308815 CVE-2016-0758 Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directl...

kernel: tags with indefinite length can corrupt pointers in asn1_find_indefinite_length()

A flaw was found in the way the Linux kernel's ASN.1 DER decoder processed certain certificate files with tags of indefinite length. A local, unprivileged user could use a specially crafted X.509 certificate DER file to crash the system or, potentially, escalate their privileges on the system...

kernel: tags with indefinite length can corrupt pointers in asn1_find_indefinite_length()

A flaw was found in the way the Linux kernel's ASN.1 DER decoder processed certain certificate files with tags of indefinite length. A local, unprivileged user could use a specially crafted X.509 certificate DER file to crash the system or, potentially, escalate their privileges on the system...

kernel: tags with indefinite length can corrupt pointers in asn1_find_indefinite_length()

A flaw was found in the way the Linux kernel's ASN.1 DER decoder processed certain certificate files with tags of indefinite length. A local, unprivileged user could use a specially crafted X.509 certificate DER file to crash the system or, potentially, escalate their privileges on the system...

kernel security and bug fix update

3.10.0-327.18.2.OL7 - Oracle Linux certificates Alexey Petrenko 3.10.0-327.18.2 - lib keys: Fix ASN.1 indefinite length object parsing David Howells 1308814 1308815 CVE-2016-0758 3.10.0-327.18.1 - scsi bnx2fc: Fix FCP RSP residual parsing Maurizio Lombardi 1322279 1306342 - mm madvise: fix...

Child Porn Suspect Held in Jail for 7 Months for refusing to Decrypt Hard Drives

In Brief A suspect of child pornography possession, Francis Rawls, who is a former Philadelphia Police Department sergeant, has been in solitary confinement without charges for last seven months and will remain until he complies with a court order forcing him to decrypt his password-protected har...

nss: ASN.1 decoder heap overflow when decoding constructed OCTET STRING that mixes indefinite and definite length encodings (MFSA 2015-133)

A heap-based buffer overflow flaw was found in the way NSS parsed certain ASN.1 structures. An attacker could use this flaw to cause NSS to crash or execute arbitrary code with the permissions of the user running an application compiled against the NSS library...

nss: ASN.1 decoder heap overflow when decoding constructed OCTET STRING that mixes indefinite and definite length encodings (MFSA 2015-133)

A heap-based buffer overflow flaw was found in the way NSS parsed certain ASN.1 structures. An attacker could use this flaw to cause NSS to crash or execute arbitrary code with the permissions of the user running an application compiled against the NSS library...

nss: ASN.1 decoder heap overflow when decoding constructed OCTET STRING that mixes indefinite and definite length encodings (MFSA 2015-133)

A heap-based buffer overflow flaw was found in the way NSS parsed certain ASN.1 structures. An attacker could use this flaw to cause NSS to crash or execute arbitrary code with the permissions of the user running an application compiled against the NSS library...