MGASA-2018-0125 Updated kernel packages fix security vulnerabilities

This kernel update is based on the upstream 4.14.18 and adds some support for mitigating Spectre, variant 1 CVE-2017-5753 and as it is built with the retpoline-aware gcc-5.5.0-1.mga6, it now provides full retpoline mitigation for Spectre, variant 2 CVE-2017-5715. WireGuard has been updated to...

MGASA-2018-0106 Updated kernel packages fix security vulnerabilities

This kernel update is based on the upstream 4.14.16 and fixes several security issues. The most important fixes in this update is for the security issue named "Spectre, variant 2 CVE-2017-5715" that is partly mitigated by enabling retpoline support. For full retpoline mitigation, kernel needs to ...

MGASA-2018-0076 Updated kernel packages fix security vulnerabilities

This kernel update is based on the upstream 4.14.13 and fixes several security issues. The most important fix in this update is for the security issue named "Meltdown" that is fixed in theese kernels by enabling kernel Page Table Isolation KPTI. Note that according to AMD, this issue does not...

MGASA-2018-0077 Updated kernel-tmb packages fix security vulnerabilities

This kernel-tmb update is based on the upstream 4.14.13 and fixes several security issues. The most important fix in this update is for the security issue named "Meltdown" that is fixed in theese kernels by enabling kernel Page Table Isolation KTPI. Note that according to AMD, this issue does not...

MGASA-2018-0064 kernel-linus update provides 4.14 series and fixes security vulnerabilities

This kernel-linus update provides an upgrade to the 4.14 longterm branch, currently based on 4.14.10. It also fixes at least the following security issues: An elevation of privilege vulnerability in the Broadcom wi-fi driver CVE-2017-0786. Use-after-free vulnerability in the sndpcminfo function i...

MGASA-2017-0386 Updated kernel packages fix security vulnerabilities

This kernel update is based on upstream 4.4.92 and fixes at least the following security issues: A security flaw was discovered in nl80211setrekeydata function in the Linux kernel since v3.1-rc1 through v4.13. This function does not check whether the required attributes are present in a netlink...

MGASA-2017-0388 Updated kernel-tmb packages fix security vulnerabilities

This kernel-tmb update is based on upstream 4.4.92 and fixes at least the following security issues: A security flaw was discovered in nl80211setrekeydata function in the Linux kernel since v3.1-rc1 through v4.13. This function does not check whether the required attributes are present in a netli...

MGASA-2017-0287 Updated kernel-linus packages fixes security and other bugs

This kernel-linus update is based on upstream 4.9.43 and fixes at least the following security issues: The curseg-segno call in f2fs driver can be malformed so that it will have a value that triggers an out of boundary write that could cause memory corruption on the affected devices, leading to...

MGASA-2017-0261 Updated kernel-tmb packages fixes security and other bugs

This kernel-tmb update is based on upstream 4.4.79 and fixes at least the following security issues: Linux kernel built with the VirtIO GPU driverCONFIGDRMVIRTIOGPU support is vulnerable to a memory leakage issue. It could occur while creating a virtio gpu object in virtiogpuobjectcreate. A...

SUSE-SU-2017:2070-1 Security update for Linux Kernel Live Patch 6 for SLE 12 SP2

This update for the Linux Kernel 4.4.49-9214 fixes several issues. The following security bugs were fixed: - CVE-2017-7533: A bug in inotify code allowed local users to escalate privilege bsc1050751. - CVE-2017-8797: The NFSv4 server in the Linux kernel did not properly validate the layout type...

SUSE-SU-2017:1283-1 Security update for Linux Kernel Live Patch 5 for SLE 12 SP2

This update for the Linux Kernel 4.4.49-9211 fixes several issues. The following security bugs were fixed: - CVE-2017-7308: The packetsetring function in net/packet/afpacket.c in the Linux kernel did not properly validate certain block-size data, which allowed local users to cause a denial of...

MGASA-2017-0136 Updated kernel packages fixes security vulnerabilities

This kernel update is based on upstream 4.4.65 and fixes at least the following security issues: fs/namespace.c in the Linux kernel before 4.9 does not restrict how many mounts may exist in a mount namespace, which allows local users to cause a denial of service memory consumption and deadlock vi...

MGASA-2017-0088 Updated kernel packages fixes security vulnerabilities

This kernel update is based on upstream 4.4.55 and fixes at least the following security issues: Race condition in drivers/tty/nhdlc.c in the Linux kernel through 4.10.1 allows local users to gain privileges or cause a denial of service double free by setting the HDLC line discipline CVE-2017-263...

MGASA-2017-0089 Updated kernel-tmb packages fixes security vulnerabilities

This kernel-tmb update is based on upstream 4.4.55 and fixes at least the following security issues: Race condition in drivers/tty/nhdlc.c in the Linux kernel through 4.10.1 allows local users to gain privileges or cause a denial of service double free by setting the HDLC line discipline...

MGASA-2017-0063 Updated kernel and kmod packages fixes security vulnerabilities

This kernel update is based on upstream 4.4.50 and fixes at least the following security issues: The cgroup offline implementation in the Linux kernel through 4.8.11 mishandles certain drain operations, which allows local users to cause a denial of service system hang by leveraging access to a...

MGASA-2017-0004 Updated kernel-tmb packages fix security vulnerabilities

This update is based on upstream 4.4.39 and fixes at least the following security issues: Due to lack of size checking on ICMP header length, it is possible to cause out-of-bounds read on stack CVE-2016-8399 The TCP stack in the Linux kernel before 4.8.10 mishandles skb truncation, which allows...

MGASA-2016-0284 Updated kernel-linus packages fix security vulnerabilities

This update is based on the upstream 4.4.16 kernel and fixes at least theese security issues: nfsd in the Linux kernel through 4.6.3 allows local users to bypass intended file-permission restrictions by setting a POSIX ACL, related to nfs2acl.c, nfs3acl.c, and nfs4acl.c. CVE-2016-1237. The...

MGASA-2016-0233 Updated kernel-tmb packages fix security vulnerabilities

This kernel-tmb update provides an upgrade to the upstream 4.4 longterm kernel series, currently based on 4.4.13 and resolves at least the following security issues: The Linux kernel before 4.4.1 allows local users to bypass file-descriptor limits and cause a denial of service memory consumption ...

MGASA-2016-0005 Updated kernel packages fix security vulnerabilities

This kernel update is based on upstream 4.1.15 longterm kernel and fixes the following security issues: The rdsconncreate function in net/rds/connection.c in the Linux kernel through 4.2.3 allows local users to cause a denial of service NULL pointer dereference and system crash or possibly have...

MGASA-2015-0221 Updated kernel-linus packages fix security vulnerabilities

This kernel update is based on upstream -longterm 3.14.41 and fixes the following security issues: net/netfilter/nfconntrackprotogeneric.c in the Linux kernel before 3.18 generates incorrect conntrack entries during handling of certain iptables rule sets for the SCTP, DCCP, GRE, and UDP-Lite...