Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: kpatch-patch security update

An update for kpatch-patch 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...

SUSE-SU-2017:0248-1 Security update for Linux Kernel Live Patch 14 for SLE 12

This update for the Linux Kernel 3.12.60-5249 fixes several issues. The following security bugs were fixed: - CVE-2016-9806: Race condition in the netlinkdump function in net/netlink/afnetlink.c in the Linux kernel allowed local users to cause a denial of service double free or possibly have...

SUSE-SU-2016:0752-1 Security update for kernel live patch 2

This kernel live patch for Linux Kernel 3.12.51-60.25.1 fixes three security issues: Fixes: - CVE-2016-0728: A reference leak in keyring handling with joinsessionkeyring could lead to local attackers gain root privileges. bsc962078. - CVE-2015-8660: The ovlsetattr function in fs/overlayfs/inode.c...

SUSE-SU-2016:0749-1 Security update for kernel live patch 10

This kernel live patch for Linux Kernel 3.12.51-52.34.1 fixes two security issues: Fixes: - CVE-2013-7446: Use-after-free vulnerability in net/unix/afunix.c in the Linux kernel allowed local users to bypass intended AFUNIX socket permissions or cause a denial of service panic via crafted epollctl...

SUSE-SU-2016:0747-1 Security update for kernel live patch 9

This kernel live patch for Linux Kernel 3.12.51-52.31.1 fixes two security issues: Fixes: - CVE-2016-0728: A reference leak in keyring handling with joinsessionkeyring could lead to local attackers gain root privileges. bsc962078. - CVE-2013-7446: Use-after-free vulnerability in net/unix/afunix.c...

SUSE-SU-2016:0757-1 Security update for kernel live patch 8

This kernel live patch for Linux Kernel 3.12.48-52.27.1 fixes two security issues: Fixes: - CVE-2016-0728: A reference leak in keyring handling with joinsessionkeyring could lead to local attackers gain root privileges. bsc962078. - CVE-2013-7446: Use-after-free vulnerability in net/unix/afunix.c...

SUSE-SU-2016:0753-1 Security update for kernel live patch 6

This kernel live patch for Linux Kernel 3.12.44-52.10.1 fixes two security issues: Fixes: - CVE-2016-0728: A reference leak in keyring handling with joinsessionkeyring could lead to local attackers gain root privileges. bsc962078. - CVE-2013-7446: Use-after-free vulnerability in net/unix/afunix.c...

SUSE-SU-2016:0750-1 Security update for kernel live patch 5

This kernel live patch for Linux Kernel 3.12.43-52.6.1 fixes two security issues: Fixes: - CVE-2016-0728: A reference leak in keyring handling with joinsessionkeyring could lead to local attackers gain root privileges. bsc962078. - CVE-2013-7446: Use-after-free vulnerability in net/unix/afunix.c ...

SUSE-SU-2016:0746-1 Security update for kernel live patch 4

This kernel live patch for Linux Kernel 3.12.39-47.1 fixes two security issues: Fixes: - CVE-2016-0728: A reference leak in keyring handling with joinsessionkeyring could lead to local attackers gain root privileges. bsc962078. - CVE-2013-7446: Use-after-free vulnerability in net/unix/afunix.c in...

SUSE-SU-2016:0745-1 Security update for kernel live patch 3

This kernel live patch for Linux Kernel 3.12.38-44.1 fixes two security issues: Fixes: - CVE-2016-0728: A reference leak in keyring handling with joinsessionkeyring could lead to local attackers gain root privileges. bsc962078. - CVE-2013-7446: Use-after-free vulnerability in net/unix/afunix.c in...

SUSE-SU-2016:0384-1 Security update for kernel live patch 2

This kernel live patch for Linux Kernel 3.12.36-38.1 fixes security issues and bugs: Security issues fixed: - CVE-2015-8539: A negatively instantiated user key could have been used by a local user to leverage privileges bnc958601. - CVE-2015-6937: A NULL pointer dereference flaw was found in the...

SUSE-SU-2016:0387-1 Security update for kernel live patch 7

This kernel live patch for Linux Kernel 3.12.44-52.18.1 fixes security issues and bugs: Security issues fixed: - CVE-2015-8539: A negatively instantiated user key could have been used by a local user to leverage privileges bnc958601. - CVE-2015-6937: A NULL pointer dereference flaw was found in t...

SUSE-SU-2016:0381-1 Security update for kernel live patch 4

This kernel live patch for Linux Kernel 3.12.39-47.1 fixes security issues and bugs: Security issues fixed: - CVE-2015-8539: A negatively instantiated user key could have been used by a local user to leverage privileges bnc958601. - CVE-2015-6937: A NULL pointer dereference flaw was found in the...

SUSE-SU-2016:0337-1 Security update for kernel live patch 8

This kernel live patch for Linux Kernel 3.12.48-52.27.1 fixes security issues and bugs: Security issues fixed: - CVE-2015-8539: A negatively instantiated user key could have been used by a local user to leverage privileges bnc958601. - CVE-2015-6937: A NULL pointer dereference flaw was found in t...

SUSE-SU-2016:0339-1 Security update for kernel live patch SP1 1

This kernel live patch for Linux Kernel 3.12.51-60.20.1 fixes security issues and bugs: Security issues fixed: - CVE-2015-8539: A negatively instantiated user key could have been used by a local user to leverage privileges bnc958601...

SUSE-SU-2016:0335-1 Security update for kernel live patch SP1 0

This kernel live patch for Linux Kernel 3.12.49-11.1 fixes security issues and bugs: Security issues fixed: - CVE-2015-8539: A negatively instantiated user key could have been used by a local user to leverage privileges bnc958601. - CVE-2015-6937: A NULL pointer dereference flaw was found in the...

SUSE-SU-2016:0341-1 Security update for Kernel live patch 10

This kernel live patch for Linux Kernel 3.12.51-52.34.1 fixes one security issue: - A reference leak in keyring handling with joinsessionkeyring could lead to local attackers gain root privileges. bsc962075, CVE-2016-0728...

SUSE-SU-2015:2090-1 Security update for Linux Kernel Live Patch 3

This kernel live patch for Linux Kernel 3.12.38-44.1 fixes two security issues: - CVE-2015-7613: A race condition in the IPC object implementation in the Linux kernel allowed local users to gain privileges by triggering an ipcaddid call that leads to uid and gid comparisons against uninitialized...

SUSE-SU-2015:1490-1 Live patch for the Linux Kernel

This update contains a kernel live patch for the 3.12.43-52.6 SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 Kernel, fixing following security issues. - CVE-2015-5364/CVE-2015-5366: Two denial of service attacks via a flood of UDP packets with invalid checksums were fixed that could be used by remote attackers ...

SUSE-SU-2015:1491-1 Live patch for the Linux Kernel

This update contains a kernel live patch for the 3.12.39-47 SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 Kernel, fixing following security issues. - CVE-2015-3339: A race condition in the preparebinprm function in fs/exec.c in the Linux kernel allowed local users to gain privileges by executing a setuid progr...