Linux kernel local privilege exploit

The Linux kernel is the kernel used by the operating system Linux, released by the Linux Foundation in the United States. A local elevation of privilege vulnerability exists in the Linux kernel, which can be exploited by a local attacker to elevate privileges or crash the kernel...

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : Linux kernel vulnerabilities (USN-2681-1)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-2681-1 advisory. A flaw was discovered in the user space memory copying for the pipe iovecs in the Linux kernel. An unprivileged local user could exploit this flaw to cau...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-2681-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2015 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...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-2678-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2015 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-2679-1: Linux kernel (OMAP4) vulnerabilities

A flaw was discovered in the user space memory copying for the pipe iovecs in the Linux kernel. An unprivileged local user could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service system crash or potentially escalate their privileges. CVE-2015-1805 Daniel Borkmann reported a kernel crash in the Linux...

Kernel: missing check during hugepage migration

A flaw was found in the way Linux kernel's Transparent Huge Pages THP implementation handled non-huge page migration. A local, unprivileged user could use this flaw to crash the kernel by migrating transparent hugepages...

[USN-2666-1] Linux kernel vulnerabilities

========================================================================== Ubuntu Security Notice USN-2666-1 July 07, 2015 linux vulnerabilities ========================================================================== A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives: - Ubun...

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : Linux kernel (Utopic HWE) vulnerabilities (USN-2664-1)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-2664-1 advisory. A race condition was discovered in the Linux kernel's filehandle size verification. A local user could exploit this flaw to read potentially sensative...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-2666-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2015 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-2666-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

A race condition was discovered in the Linux kernel's filehandle size verification. A local user could exploit this flaw to read potentially sensative memory locations. CVE-2015-1420 A underflow error was discovered in the Linux kernel's Ozmo Devices USB over WiFi host controller driver. A remote...

RedHat Update for kexec-tools RHSA-2015:0986-01

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2015 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...

CentOS Update for kexec-tools CESA-2015:0986 centos7

Check the version of kexec-tools SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2015 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"1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.882186";...

Linux Kernel 'tty/tty_ldsem.c' Local Contention Condition Vulnerability

Linux Kernel is an open source operating system. A local competitive condition vulnerability exists in Linux kernel 'tty/ttyldsem.c'. A local attacker can exploit this vulnerability to gain elevated privileges or cause a kernel crash...

SUSE SLES11 Security Update : kernel (SUSE-SU-2014:0287-1)

This is a SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP1 LTSS roll up update to fix a lot of security issues and non-security bugs. The following security bugs have been fixed : CVE-2011-3593: A certain Red Hat patch to the vlanhwacceldoreceive function in net/8021q/vlancore.c in the Linux kernel 2.6.32 on...

Scientific Linux Security Update : kexec-tools on SL7.x x86_64 (20150512)

It was found that the module-setup.sh script provided by kexec-tools created temporary files in an insecure way. A malicious, local user could use this flaw to conduct a symbolic link attack, allowing them to overwrite the contents of arbitrary files. CVE-2015-0267 This update also fixes the...

kexec security update

CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-2015:0986 Updated kexec-tools packages that fix one security issue, one bug, and add one enhancement are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having Moderate security impact. A Common Vulnerability...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-2587-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2015 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...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-2589-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2015 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-2588-1 linux vulnerabilities

A stack overflow was discovered in the the microcode loader for the intel x86 platform. A local attacker could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service kernel crash or to potentially execute code with kernel privileges. CVE-2015-2666 It was discovered that the Linux kernel's IPv6 networking...

USN-2588-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

A stack overflow was discovered in the the microcode loader for the intel x86 platform. A local attacker could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service kernel crash or to potentially execute code with kernel privileges. CVE-2015-2666 It was discovered that the Linux kernel's IPv6 networking...