CVE-2016-6243

OpenBSD 5.8/5.9 kernel vulnerability CVE-2016-6243: thrsleep in kern/kern_synch.c can be triggered by a crafted tsp value in __thrsleep, allowing local users to cause a denial of service (kernel panic). Documents confirm affected file and parameters; no remediation details are provided here. Expl...

CVE-2016-6242

OpenBSD 5.8 and 5.9 are affected by CVE-2016-6242: a local attacker can trigger a denial of service by supplying a large ident value to a kevent system call, causing an assertion failure and kernel panic. This is a local-privilege context with no remote access implied. The observed impact is a ke...

CVE-2016-6522

CVE-2016-6522 concerns OpenBSD 5.9 kernel code, where an integer overflow in the uvm_map_isavail function (uvm/uvm_map.c) can be triggered by a crafted mmap call. This may cause a denial of service via a kernel panic due to the new mapping overlapping an existing mapping. Elevation or remote impa...

CVE-2016-6246

OpenBSD 5.8 and 5.9 allows certain local users with kern.usermount privileges to cause a denial of service kernel panic by mounting a tmpfs with a VNOVAL in the 1 username, 2 groupname, or 3 device name of the root node...

CVE-2016-6522

Integer overflow in the uvmmapisavail function in uvm/uvmmap.c in OpenBSD 5.9 allows local users to cause a denial of service kernel panic via a crafted mmap call, which triggers the new mapping to overlap with an existing mapping...

RHEL 6 : kernel (RHSA-2017:0307)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 6 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2017:0307 advisory. The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system. Security Fixes: When creating audit records for...

RHEL 7 : kernel (RHSA-2017:0270)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2017:0270 advisory. The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system. Security Fixes: A use-after-free vulnerability was found in the...

RHEL 7 : kernel (RHSA-2017:0217)

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...

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

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-2016-9278

The Samsung Exynos fimg2d driver for Android with Exynos 5433, 54xx, or 7420 chipsets allows local users to cause a denial of service kernel panic via a crafted ioctl command. The Samsung ID is SVE-2016-6736...

CVE-2016-9278

The Samsung Exynos fimg2d driver for Android with Exynos 5433, 54xx, or 7420 chipsets allows local users to cause a denial of service kernel panic via a crafted ioctl command. The Samsung ID is SVE-2016-6736...

CVE-2016-9278

Affected component: Samsung Exynos fimg2d driver in Android on Exynos 5433, 54xx, and 7420 chipsets. Vulnerability arises from a crafted ioctl command that can trigger a kernel panic (local denial of service). The CVE is documented across multiple sources (NVD/NVL/RH/etc.) with a MEDIUM base scor...

XenServer Fails to Boot with Boot from SAN Root Disk Multipathing:"Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0,0)"

The XenServer host has recently been updated with a hotfix that updates the kernel. After patching the XenServer host is in a boot loop. During startup there is a message"Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block0,0" followed by a call trace: The initrd file size i...

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

An update for kernel-rt is now available for Red Hat Enterprise MRG 2.5. 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...

CVE-2016-9868

An issue was discovered in EMC ScaleIO versions before 2.0.1.1. A low-privileged local attacker may cause a denial-of-service by generating a kernel panic in the SCINI driver using IOCTL calls which may render the ScaleIO Data Client SDC server unavailable until the next reboot...

Code injection

An issue was discovered in EMC ScaleIO versions before 2.0.1.1. A low-privileged local attacker may cause a denial-of-service by generating a kernel panic in the SCINI driver using IOCTL calls which may render the ScaleIO Data Client SDC server unavailable until the next reboot...

CVE-2016-9868

An issue was discovered in EMC ScaleIO versions before 2.0.1.1. A low-privileged local attacker may cause a denial-of-service by generating a kernel panic in the SCINI driver using IOCTL calls which may render the ScaleIO Data Client SDC server unavailable until the next reboot...

Security update for xen (important)

This updates xen to version 4.4.406 to fix the following issues: - An unprivileged user in a guest could gain guest could escalate privilege to that of the guest kernel, if it had could invoke the instruction emulator. Only 64-bit x86 HVM guest were affected. Linux guest have not been vulnerable...

Product update: Virtuozzo 7.0 Update 3

The new packages for Virtuozzo 7.0 introducing new features and bug fixes. Vulnerability id: PSBM-56838 Kernel panic when creating ploops on NVMe devices. Vulnerability id: PSBM-56668 HWIDs could not be obtained for SGI UV 1000 nodes. Vulnerability id: PSBM-56667 vzlicview could incorrectly detec...

CVE-2016-9031

An exploitable integer overflow exists in the Joyent SmartOS 20161110T013148Z Hyprlofs file system. The vulnerability is present in the Ioctl system call with the command HYPRLOFSADDENTRIES when dealing with 32-bit file systems. An attacker can craft an input that can cause a kernel panic and...