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

Updated kernel packages that fix multiple security issues and two bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.2 Advanced Update Support. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having Important security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base scores, which give...

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : Linux kernel (Utopic HWE) vulnerabilities (USN-2517-1)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-2517-1 advisory. A flaw was discovered in the Kernel Virtual Machine's KVM emulation of the SYSTENTER instruction when the guest OS does not initialize the SYSENTER MSRs....

UBUNTU-CVE-2014-9729

The udfreadinode function in fs/udf/inode.c in the Linux kernel before 3.18.2 does not ensure a certain data-structure size consistency, which allows local users to cause a denial of service system crash via a crafted UDF filesystem image...

UBUNTU-CVE-2014-9728

The UDF filesystem implementation in the Linux kernel before 3.18.2 does not validate certain lengths, which allows local users to cause a denial of service buffer over-read and system crash via a crafted filesystem image, related to fs/udf/inode.c and fs/udf/symlink.c...

RHEL 6 : kernel (RHSA-2014:1365)

Updated kernel packages that fix one security issue and several bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.4 Extended Update Support. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having Important security impact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a...

kernel: futex: refcount issue in case of requeue

A flaw was found in the way the Linux kernel's futex subsystem handled reference counting when requeuing futexes during futexwait. A local, unprivileged user could use this flaw to zero out the reference counter of an inode or an mm struct that backs up the memory area of the futex, which could...

kernel: futex: refcount issue in case of requeue

A flaw was found in the way the Linux kernel's futex subsystem handled reference counting when requeuing futexes during futexwait. A local, unprivileged user could use this flaw to zero out the reference counter of an inode or an mm struct that backs up the memory area of the futex, which could...

DEBIAN-CVE-2014-6410

The udfreadinode function in fs/udf/inode.c in the Linux kernel through 3.16.3 does not restrict the amount of ICB indirection, which allows physically proximate attackers to cause a denial of service infinite loop or stack consumption via a UDF filesystem with a crafted inode...

CVE-2014-6410

The udfreadinode function in fs/udf/inode.c in the Linux kernel through 3.16.3 does not restrict the amount of ICB indirection, which allows physically proximate attackers to cause a denial of service infinite loop or stack consumption via a UDF filesystem with a crafted inode...

UBUNTU-CVE-2014-6410

The udfreadinode function in fs/udf/inode.c in the Linux kernel through 3.16.3 does not restrict the amount of ICB indirection, which allows physically proximate attackers to cause a denial of service infinite loop or stack consumption via a UDF filesystem with a crafted inode...

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

Updated kernel packages that fix one security issue and several bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having Moderate security impact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, ...

Design/Logic Flaw

The parserockridgeinodeinternal function in fs/isofs/rock.c in the Linux kernel through 3.16.1 allows local users to cause a denial of service unkillable mount process via a crafted iso9660 image with a self-referential CL entry...

PT-2018-3823 · Linux +5 · Linux Kernel +5

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Linux kernel versions through 3.16 Description: The issue is related to insecure privilege management in the inode init owner function of the Linux kernel. This allows an attacker to access confidential data, compromise its integrity, and cau...

Updated kernel-tmb package fixes security vulnerabilities

Updated kernel-tmb provides upstream 3.10.51 kernel and fixes the following security issues: Array index error in the aioreadeventsring function in fs/aio.c in the Linux kernel through 3.15.1 allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel memory via a large head value CVE-2014-020...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-2287-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2014 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...

[USN-2289-1] Linux kernel vulnerabilities

========================================================================== Ubuntu Security Notice USN-2289-1 July 17, 2014 linux vulnerabilities ========================================================================== A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives: - Ubun...

USN-2287-1: Linux kernel (Saucy HWE) vulnerabilities

Sasha Levin reported a flaw in the Linux kernel's point-to-point protocol PPP when used with the Layer Two Tunneling Protocol L2TP. A local user could exploit this flaw to gain administrative privileges. CVE-2014-4943 Michael S. Tsirkin discovered an information leak in the Linux kernel's...

Ubuntu 13.10 : linux vulnerabilities (USN-2289-1)

Sasha Levin reported a flaw in the Linux kernel's point-to-point protocol PPP when used with the Layer Two Tunneling Protocol L2TP. A local user could exploit this flaw to gain administrative privileges. CVE-2014-4943 Michael S. Tsirkin discovered an information leak in the Linux kernel's...

ManTrap 1.6.1 Root Directory Inode Disclosure Vulnerability

No description provided by source. source: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1909/info ManTrap is a honeypot intrusion detection system designed to lure attackers into it for analysis. The honeypot is implemented as a chroot'ed Solaris environment, designed to look and feel real to an attacker who...

Oracle Linux 5 / 6 : Unbreakable Enterprise kernel (ELSA-2012-2022)

Description of changes: Avoid bug caused by corrupted Ext4 filesystem. When mounting an ext4 filesystem, the kernel was not checking for zero length extents. This would cause a BUGON assertion failure in the log. NULL pointer dereference in the SCSI subsystem. A NULL dereference may occur if a SC...