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-2016-0412 Updated kernel-tmb-4.4.32 packages fix security vulnerability

This update is based on upstream 4.4.32 and fixes alteast the following security issues: The prockeysshow function in security/keys/proc.c in the Linux kernel through 4.8.2, when the GNU Compiler Collection gcc stack protector is enabled, uses an incorrect buffer size for certain timeout data,...

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-2015-0237 Updated kernel-linus packages fix security vulnerabilities and bugs

Updated kernel-linus fixes security, critical data corruption and pdata loss issues This kernel-linus update is based on upstream -longterm 3.14.43 and fixes a security issue, and critical data corruption and data loss issues: drivers/vhost/scsi.c: potential memory corruption CVE-2015-4036 ext4...

MGASA-2015-0238 Updated kernel-tmb packages fix security vulnerabilities and bugs

Updated kernel-tmb fixes security, critical data corruption and pdata loss issues This kernel-tmb update is based on upstream -longterm 3.14.43 and fixes a security issue, and critical data corruption and data loss issues: drivers/vhost/scsi.c: potential memory corruption CVE-2015-4036 ext4...

MGASA-2015-0236 Updated kernel packages fix security vulnerabilities and bugs

Updated kernel fixes security, critical data corruption and pdata loss issues This kernel update is based on upstream -longterm 3.14.43 and fixes a security issue, and critical data corruption and data loss issues: drivers/vhost/scsi.c: potential memory corruption CVE-2015-4036 ext4 filesystem ha...

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...

SUSE-SU-2015:0529-1 Security update for the Linux Kernel

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 kernel was updated to 3.12.38 to receive various security and bugfixes. This update contains the following feature enablements: - The remote block device rbd and ceph drivers have been enabled and are now supported. FATE318350 These can be used e.g. for accessing the...

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-2014-0474 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-2014-0475 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-2014-0453 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-2014-0451 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...