RHEL 7 : kernel (RHSA-2017:1615)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2017:1615 advisory. The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system. Security Fixes: A flaw was found in the way Linux kern...

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

An update for kernel 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 from th...

RHEL 6 : kernel (RHSA-2017:1491) (Stack Clash)

An update for kernel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.2 Advanced 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...

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

An update for kernel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.2 Advanced 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...

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

An update for kernel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.6 Advanced Update Support and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.6 Telco 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...

SUSE-SU-2017:1618-1 Security update for the Linux Kernel

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 kernel was updated to receive various security and bugfixes. The following security bugs were fixed: - CVE-2017-1000364: The default stack guard page was too small and could be 'jumped over' by userland programs using more than one page of stack in functions and so le...

RedHat Update for kernel RHSA-2017:1372-01

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2017 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 6 : kernel (CESA-2017:1372)

An update for kernel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the...

CentOS Update for kernel CESA-2017:1372 centos6

Check the version of kernel SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2017 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"1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.882728";...

kernel, perf, python security update

CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-2017:1372 An update for kernel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity...

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

An update for kernel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the...

Linux kernel 'udp. c' remote code execution vulnerability(CVE-2016-10229)

The Linux kernel allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via UDP traffic that triggers an unsafe second checksum calculation during execution of a recv system call with the MSGPEEK flag. This may create a kernel panic or memory corruption leading to privilege escalation...

The vulnerability of the OpenBSD operating system, which allows a hacker to trigger a service failure

The vulnerability of the thrsleep function in the kernel/kernsynch.c file of the OpenBSD operating system exists due to insufficient checking of input data. Exploiting this vulnerability could allow a local attacker to cause a kernel panic by using a specially crafted value as the tsp parameter i...

The vulnerability of the OpenBSD operating system, which allows a hacker to trigger a service failure

The vulnerability of the mmap extension’s MAPNOFAULT flag in the OpenBSD operating system exists due to insufficient checks on input data. Exploiting this vulnerability allows a local attacker to cause a kernel panic by using a large value...

Moderate: Red Hat Security Advisory: kernel security and enhancement update

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 Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for...

Vm86 - Syscall Task Switch Kernel Panic / Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

Exploit for linux platform in category local exploits Source: http://www.halfdog.net/Security/2013/Vm86SyscallTaskSwitchKernelPanic/ Introduction Problem description: The initial observation was, that the linux vm86 syscall, which allows to use the virtual-8086 mode from userspace for emulating o...

CVE-2017-7261

In was found that in the Linux kernel, in vmwsurfacedefineioctl function in 'drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx/vmwgfxsurface.c' file, a 'numsizes' parameter is assigned a user-controlled value which is not checked if it is zero. This is used in a call to kmalloc and later leads to dereferencing ZEROSIZEPTR,...

kernel: Stack corruption while reading /proc/keys when gcc stack protector is enabled

It was found that when the gcc stack protector was enabled, reading the /proc/keys file could cause a panic in the Linux kernel due to stack corruption. This happened because an incorrect buffer size was used to hold a 64-bit timeout value rendered as weeks...

RHEL 7 : kernel (RHSA-2017:0501)

An update for kernel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.2 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...

CVE-2016-6239

The mmap extension MAPNOFAULT in OpenBSD 5.8 and 5.9 allows attackers to cause a denial of service kernel panic and crash via a large size value...