Important: 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 Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from th...

Linux Kernel Keyctl Null Pointer Dereference Vulnerability

A malicious interaction with the keyctl usermode interface allows an attacker to crash the kernel. Processing the attached certificate by the kernel leads to a kernel nullpointer dereference. This vulnerably can be triggered by any unprivileged user locally. Local DoS: Linux Kernel Nullpointer...

kernel: incorrect restoration of machine specific registers from userspace

A flaw was found in the Linux kernel which could cause a kernel panic when restoring machine specific registers on the PowerPC platform. Incorrect transactional memory state registers could inadvertently change the call path on return from userspace and cause the kernel to enter an unknown state...

kernel: incorrect restoration of machine specific registers from userspace

A flaw was found in the Linux kernel which could cause a kernel panic when restoring machine specific registers on the PowerPC platform. Incorrect transactional memory state registers could inadvertently change the call path on return from userspace and cause the kernel to enter an unknown state...

kernel: Kernel panic and system lockup by triggering BUG_ON() in public_key_verify_signature()

A syntax vulnerability was discovered in the kernel's ASN1.1 DER decoder, which could lead to memory corruption or a complete local denial of service through x509 certificate DER files. A local system user could use a specially created key file to trigger BUGON in the publickeyverifysignature...

kernel: incorrect restoration of machine specific registers from userspace

A flaw was found in the Linux kernel which could cause a kernel panic when restoring machine specific registers on the PowerPC platform. Incorrect transactional memory state registers could inadvertently change the call path on return from userspace and cause the kernel to enter an unknown state...

kernel: Kernel panic and system lockup by triggering BUG_ON() in public_key_verify_signature()

A syntax vulnerability was discovered in the kernel's ASN1.1 DER decoder, which could lead to memory corruption or a complete local denial of service through x509 certificate DER files. A local system user could use a specially created key file to trigger BUGON in the publickeyverifysignature...

Linux Kernel EXT4 Error Handling Denial Of Service Vulnerability

Mounting a crafted EXT4 image as read-only leads to a kernel panic. Since the mounting procedure is a privileged operation, an attacker is probably not able to trigger this vulnerability on the commandline. Instead the automatic mounting feature of the GUI via a crafted USB-device is required...

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...

Apple OS XiOS - mach_ports_register Multiple Memory Safety s

Apple OS XiOS - machportsregister Multiple Memory Safety s Source: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=882 machportsregister is a kernel task port MIG method. It's defined in MIG like this: routine machportsregister targettask : taskt; initportset : machportarrayt = ^array o...

Juniper Junos IPv6 Packet Handling Remote DoS (JSA10762)

According to its self-reported version number and configuration, the remote Juniper Junos device is affected by a denial of service vulnerability in the IPV6 implementation. An unauthenticated, remote attacker can exploit this, via a flood of specially crafted IPv6 traffic, to exhaust available...

RHEL 6 : kernel (RHSA-2016:2074)

An update for kernel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.5 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 6.5 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...

Juniper Networks Junos OS IPv6 DoS Vulnerability

Junos OS is prone to a Denial of Service vulnerability with IPv6 enabled. 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 CPE =...

CentOS Update for kernel CESA-2016:2006 centos6

Check the version of kernel 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 scriptoid"1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.882574";...

Scientific Linux Security Update : kernel on SL6.x i386/x86_64 (20161004)

Security Fixes : - A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's keyring handling code, where in keyrejectandlink an uninitialized variable would eventually lead to arbitrary free address which could allow attacker to use a use-after-free style attack. CVE-2016-4470, Important - A heap-based buffer...

RHEL 6 : kernel (RHSA-2016:2006)

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 Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from th...

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 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...

CentOS Update for kernel CESA-2016:1847 centos7

Check the version of kernel 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 scriptoid"1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.882558";...

CentOS 7 : kernel (CESA-2016:1847)

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...