RHEL 6 : kernel (RHSA-2016:1815)

An update for kernel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.7 Extended Update Support. 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...

Scientific Linux Security Update : kernel on SL7.x x86_64 (20160802)

To see the complete list of bug fixes, users are directed to the related Knowledge Article : Security Fixes : - A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's keyring handling code, where in keyrejectandlink an uninitialised variable would eventually lead to arbitrary free address which could allow...

DEBIAN-CVE-2016-4578

sound/core/timer.c in the Linux kernel through 4.6 does not initialize certain r1 data structures, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel stack memory via crafted use of the ALSA timer interface, related to the 1 sndtimeruserccallback and 2 sndtimerusertinterrupt...

DEBIAN-CVE-2016-3136

The mctu232msrtostate function in drivers/usb/serial/mctu232.c in the Linux kernel before 4.5.1 allows physically proximate attackers to cause a denial of service NULL pointer dereference and system crash via a crafted USB device without two interrupt-in endpoint descriptors...

Null pointer dereference

The mctu232msrtostate function in drivers/usb/serial/mctu232.c in the Linux kernel before 4.5.1 allows physically proximate attackers to cause a denial of service NULL pointer dereference and system crash via a crafted USB device without two interrupt-in endpoint descriptors...

DEBIAN-CVE-2016-2545

The sndtimerinterrupt function in sound/core/timer.c in the Linux kernel before 4.4.1 does not properly maintain a certain linked list, which allows local users to cause a denial of service race condition and system crash via a crafted ioctl call...

DEBIAN-CVE-2015-8552

The PCI backend driver in Xen, when running on an x86 system and using Linux 3.1.x through 4.3.x as the driver domain, allows local guest administrators to generate a continuous stream of WARN messages and cause a denial of service disk consumption by leveraging a system with access to a...

IBM WebSphere Commerce Denial of Service Vulnerability (CNVD-2016-01748)

IBM WebSphere Commerce is a suite of e-commerce solutions. The solution supports all sales business models, including B2C, B2B and B2B2C, on a single customer interaction platform. An unspecified security vulnerability exists in IBM WebSphere Commerce that could be exploited by a remote attacker ...

UBUNTU-CVE-2016-2545

The sndtimerinterrupt function in sound/core/timer.c in the Linux kernel before 4.4.1 does not properly maintain a certain linked list, which allows local users to cause a denial of service race condition and system crash via a crafted ioctl call...

kernel: x86-64: IRET faults during NMIs processing

A flaw was found in the way the Linux kernel handled IRET faults during the processing of NMIs. An unprivileged, local user could use this flaw to crash the system or, potentially although highly unlikely, escalate their privileges on the system...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-2887-2)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2016 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-2889-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

It was discovered that a use-after-free vulnerability existed in the AFUNIX implementation in the Linux kernel. A local attacker could use crafted epollctl calls to cause a denial of service system crash or expose sensitive information. CVE-2013-7446 It was discovered that the KVM implementation ...

OpenStack Object Storage Denial of Service Vulnerability

OpenStack is a cloud platform management project.OpenStack Object Storage aka Swift is one of the storage projects for storing permanent static data. OpenStack Object Storage failed to properly close client connections, allowing a remote attacker to perform a denial of service by sending a series...

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : Linux kernel (Wily HWE) vulnerabilities (USN-2890-2)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-2890-2 advisory. It was discovered that a use-after-free vulnerability existed in the AFUNIX implementation in the Linux kernel. A local attacker could use crafted epollc...

OpenStack Object Storage Denial of Service Vulnerability (CNVD-2016-00844)

OpenStack is a cloud platform management project.OpenStack Object Storage aka Swift is one of the storage projects for storing permanent static data. OpenStack Object Storage failed to properly close a server connection, allowing a remote attacker to conduct a denial of service attack by sending ...

Ubuntu 15.10 : linux-raspi2 vulnerabilities (USN-2890-3)

It was discovered that a use-after-free vulnerability existed in the AFUNIX implementation in the Linux kernel. A local attacker could use crafted epollctl calls to cause a denial of service system crash or expose sensitive information. CVE-2013-7446 It was discovered that the KVM implementation ...

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS : linux-lts-trusty vulnerabilities (USN-2887-2)

It was discovered that a use-after-free vulnerability existed in the AFUNIX implementation in the Linux kernel. A local attacker could use crafted epollctl calls to cause a denial of service system crash or expose sensitive information. CVE-2013-7446 It was discovered that the KVM implementation ...

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : Linux kernel (Vivid HWE) vulnerabilities (USN-2889-2)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-2889-2 advisory. It was discovered that a use-after-free vulnerability existed in the AFUNIX implementation in the Linux kernel. A local attacker could use crafted epollc...

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : Linux kernel vulnerabilities (USN-2887-1)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-2887-1 advisory. It was discovered that a use-after-free vulnerability existed in the AFUNIX implementation in the Linux kernel. A local attacker could use crafted epollc...

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS : linux vulnerabilities (USN-2886-1)

It was discovered that a use-after-free vulnerability existed in the AFUNIX implementation in the Linux kernel. A local attacker could use crafted epollctl calls to cause a denial of service system crash or expose sensitive information. CVE-2013-7446 It was discovered that the KVM implementation ...