Linux af_packet.c race condition (local root) (CVE-2016-8655)

To create AFPACKET sockets you need CAPNETRAW in your network namespace, which can be acquired by unprivileged processes on systems where unprivileged namespaces are enabled Ubuntu, Fedora, etc. It can be triggered from within containers to compromise the host kernel. On Android, processes with...

openSUSE Security Update : the Linux Kernel (openSUSE-2016-1410)

The openSUSE 13.1 kernel was updated to 3.12.67 to receive various security and bugfixes. The following security bugs were fixed : - CVE-2013-5634: arch/arm/kvm/arm.c in the Linux kernel on the ARM platform, when KVM is used, allowed host OS users to cause a denial of service NULL pointer...

Security update for the Linux Kernel (important)

The openSUSE 13.1 kernel was updated to 3.12.67 to receive various security and bugfixes. The following security bugs were fixed: - CVE-2013-5634: arch/arm/kvm/arm.c in the Linux kernel on the ARM platform, when KVM is used, allowed host OS users to cause a denial of service NULL pointer...

MGASA-2016-0401 Updated kernel-4.4.32 packages fixes security vulnerabilities

This update is based on upstream 4.4.32 and fixes at least 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,...

SUSE-SU-2016:2912-1 Security update for the Linux Kernel

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 kernel was updated to 3.12.67 to receive various security and bugfixes. The following security bugs were fixed: - CVE-2016-7042: The prockeysshow function in security/keys/proc.c in the Linux kernel used an incorrect buffer size for certain timeout data, which allowed...

Fedora 23 : kernel (2016-ee3a114958)

The 4.8.8 stable kernel update contains a number of important fixes across the tree. ---- The 4.8.7 kernel rebase contains new hardware support, additional features, and a number of important bug fixes across the tree. Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description blo...

Fedora 25 : kernel (2016-876deae183)

The 4.8.7 stable kernel update contains a number of important fixes across the tree. Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system website. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible...

Critical kernel security update: vulnerability fixes CVE-2016-7910, CVE-2016-7911 (and other), new kernel 2.6.32-042stab120.11

This update provides a new Virtuozzo 6.0 kernel 2.6.32-042stab120.11 based on the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.8 kernel 2.6.32-642.6.1.el6. The new kernel provides security and stability fixes. Vulnerability id: CVE-2016-1583 Stack overflow via ecryptfs and /proc/$pid/environ. It was found that...

CentOS 6 : kernel (CESA-2016:2766)

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...

RHEL 6 : kernel (RHSA-2016:2766)

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...

Fedora Update for kernel FEDORA-2016-c3558808cd

The remote host is missing an update for the 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...

USN-3128-2 linux-lts-xenial vulnerability

USN-3128-1 fixed vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel for Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. This update provides the corresponding updates for the Linux Hardware Enablement HWE kernel from Ubuntu 16.04 LTS for Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. Ondrej Kozina discovered that the keyring interface in the Linux kernel contained a...

Updated kernel packages fix security vulnerabilities

This update is based on the upstream 4.4.30 kernel and fixes at least these security issues: The filesystem implementation in the Linux kernel through 4.8.2 preserves the setgid bit during a setxattr call, which allows local users to gain group privileges by leveraging the existence of a setgid...

Fedora 24 : kernel (2016-96d276367e)

The 4.8.6 stable update contains a number of important fixes across the tree. Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system website. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without...

[SECURITY] Fedora 24 Update: kernel-4.8.6-201.fc24

The kernel meta package...

Updated kernel-tmb package fixes security issues

This update is based on the upstream 4.4.26 kernel and fixes at least these security issues: sound/core/timer.c in the Linux kernel through 4.6 does not initialize certain r1 data structures, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel stack memory via crafted use of the...

RHEL 7 : kernel (RHSA-2016:2574)

"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 t...

RHEL 6 : kernel (RHSA-2016:2133)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 6 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2016:2133 advisory. The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system. Security Fixes: A race condition was found in the way...

RHEL 6 : kernel (RHSA-2016:2132)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 6 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2016:2132 advisory. The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system. Security Fixes: A race condition was found in the way the Linux...

RHEL 5 : kernel (RHSA-2016:2127)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 5 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2016:2127 advisory. The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system. Security Fixes: A race condition was found in the way the Linux...