MGASA-2015-0077 Updated kernel-rt packages fix security vulnerabilities

This kernel-rt update provides as upgrade to upstream 3.14 longterm branch, currently based on 3.14.32 and fixes the following security issues: The microcode on AMD 16h 00h through 0Fh processors does not properly handle the interaction between locked instructions and write-combined memory types,...

MGASA-2015-0070 Updated kernel packages fix security vulnerabilities

This kernel update is based on upstream -longterm 3.14.32 and fixes the following security issues: The Linux kernel through 3.17.4 does not properly restrict dropping of supplemental group memberships in certain namespace scenarios, which allows local users to bypass intended file permissions by...

MGASA-2015-0006 Updated kernel packages fix security vulnerabilities

This kernel update is based on upstream -longterm 3.14.27 and fixes the following security issues: arch/x86/kernel/tls.c in the Thread Local Storage TLS implementation in the Linux kernel through 3.18.1 allows local users to bypass the espfix protection mechanism, and consequently makes it easier...

MGASA-2014-0475 Updated kernel packages fix security vulnerabilities

This kernel update is based on upstream -longterm 3.10.60 and fixes the following security issues: The WRMSR processing functionality in the KVM subsystem in the Linux kernel through 3.17.2 does not properly handle the writing of a non- canonical address to a model-specific register, which allows...

MGASA-2014-0474 Updated kernel packages fix security vulnerabilities

This kernel update is based on upstream -longterm 3.14.24 and fixes the following security issues: The WRMSR processing functionality in the KVM subsystem in the Linux kernel through 3.17.2 does not properly handle the writing of a non- canonical address to a model-specific register, which allows...

MGASA-2014-0451 Updated kernel-linus packages fix security vulnerabilities

This kernel-linus update is based on upstream -longterm 3.14.23 and fixes the following security issues: The kvmiommumappages function in virt/kvm/iommu.c in the Linux kernel through 3.16.1 miscalculates the number of pages during the handling of a mapping failure, which allows guest OS users to ...

MGASA-2014-0455 Updated kernel-vserver packages fix security vulnerabilities

This kernel-vserver update provides an upgrade to the upstream 3.14 -longterm branch, currently based on 3.14.23 and fixes the following security issues: The kvmiommumappages function in virt/kvm/iommu.c in the Linux kernel through 3.16.1 miscalculates the number of pages during the handling of a...

MGASA-2014-0453 Updated kernel packages fix security vulnerabilities

This kernel update is based on upstream -longterm 3.14.23 and fixes the following security issues: The kvmiommumappages function in virt/kvm/iommu.c in the Linux kernel through 3.16.1 miscalculates the number of pages during the handling of a mapping failure, which allows guest OS users to 1 caus...

MGASA-2014-0316 Updated kernel packages fix security vulnerabilities

This kernel update provides the upstream 3.12.25 longterm kernel and fixes the following security issues: Array index error in the aioreadeventsring function in fs/aio.c in the Linux kernel through 3.15.1 allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel memory via a large head value...

MGASA-2014-0265 Updated kernel packages fixes security vulnerabilities.

Updated kernel packages fixes security vulnerabilities. The kernel has been updated to the upstream 3.12.21 longterm kernel, and fixes the following security issues: media-device: fix infoleak in ioctl mediaenumentities CVE-2014-1739 The futexrequeue function in kernel/futex.c in the Linux kernel...

MGASA-2014-0207 Updated kernel-linus packages fixes multiple bugs and vulnerabilities

Updated kernel-linus provides upstream 3.12.18 kernel and fixes the following security issues: Buffer overflow in the completeemulatedmmio function in arch/x86/kvm/ x86.c in the Linux kernel before 3.13.6 allows guest OS users to execute arbitrary code on the host OS by leveraging a loop that...

MGASA-2014-0206 Updated kernel packages fixes multiple bugs and vulnerabilities

Updated kernel provides upstream 3.12.18 kernel and fixes the following security issues: Buffer overflow in the completeemulatedmmio function in arch/x86/kvm/ x86.c in the Linux kernel before 3.13.6 allows guest OS users to execute arbitrary code on the host OS by leveraging a loop that triggers ...

MGASA-2014-0064 Updated kernel-vserver packages fix security vulnerability

This kernel update provides an update to the 3.10 longterm branch, currently 3.10.28 and fixes the following security issues: The ath9khtcsetbssidmask function in drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/htcdrvmain.c in the Linux kernel through 3.12 uses a BSSID masking approach to determine the set of MAC...

MGASA-2014-0043 Updated kernel-linus package fixes multiple vulnerabilities

This kernel update provides an update to the 3.10 longterm branch, currently 3.10.28 and fixes the following security issues: The ath9khtcsetbssidmask function in drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/htcdrvmain.c in the Linux kernel through 3.12 uses a BSSID masking approach to determine the set of MAC...

MGASA-2014-0038 Updated kernel package fixes one critical and a few other security issues

This kernel update provides an update to the 3.10 longterm branch, currently 3.10.28 and fixes the following security issues: The ath9khtcsetbssidmask function in drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/htcdrvmain.c in the Linux kernel through 3.12 uses a BSSID masking approach to determine the set of MAC...

MGASA-2013-0374 Updated kernel-rt packages fix security vulnerabilities

This kernel-rt update provides an update to the 3.10 longterm branch, currently 3.10.24 and fixes the following security issues: The ipv6createtempaddr function in net/ipv6/addrconf.c in the Linux kernel through 3.10 does not properly handle problems with the generation of IPv6 temporary addresse...

MGASA-2013-0373 Updated kernel-tmb packages fix security vulnerabilities

This kernel-tmb update provides an update to the 3.10 longterm branch, currently 3.10.24 and fixes the following security issues: The ipv6createtempaddr function in net/ipv6/addrconf.c in the Linux kernel through 3.10 does not properly handle problems with the generation of IPv6 temporary...

MGASA-2013-0371 Updated kernel and related packages fix security vulnerabilities

This kernel update provides an update to the 3.10 longterm branch, currently 3.10.24 and fixes the following security issues: The ipv6createtempaddr function in net/ipv6/addrconf.c in the Linux kernel through 3.10 does not properly handle problems with the generation of IPv6 temporary addresses,...

MGASA-2013-0212 Updated kernel-vserver package fixes security issues

This kernel-vserver update provides the upstream 3.4.52 kernel and fixes the follwing security issues: The pcibackenablemsi function in the PCI backend driver drivers/xen/pciback/confspacecapabilitymsi.c in Xen for the Linux kernel 2.6.18 and 3.8 allows guest OS users with PCI device access to...

MGASA-2013-0204 Updated kernel packages fix multiple security vulnerabilities

This kernel update provides the extended stable 3.8.13.4 kernel and fixes the follwing security issues: The pcibackenablemsi function in the PCI backend driver drivers/xen/pciback/confspacecapabilitymsi.c in Xen for the Linux kernel 2.6.18 and 3.8 allows guest OS users with PCI device access to...