Security update for the Linux Kernel (important)

The Linux kernel was updated to fix various bugs and security issues. Following security issues were fixed: - CVE-2014-8173: A NULL pointer dereference flaw was found in the way the Linux kernels madvise MADVWILLNEED functionality handled page table locking. A local, unprivileged user could have...

CentOS Update for kernel CESA-2015:0726 centos7

Check the version of kernel SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2015 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"1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.882145";...

SUSE-SU-2015:0658-1 Security Update for Linux Kernel

The SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 kernel was updated to 3.12.39 to receive various security and bugfixes. Following security bugs were fixed: - CVE-2015-0777: The XEN usb backend could leak information to the guest system due to copying uninitialized memory. - CVE-2015-2150: Xen and the Linux...

kernel update for Evergreen 11.4, includes leap second deadlock fix (important)

kernel update for Evergreen 11.4, includes leap second deadlock fix and fixes for other security and stability issues...

[SECURITY] Fedora 20 Update: kernel-3.18.9-100.fc20

The kernel package contains the Linux kernel vmlinuz, the core of any Linux operating system. The kernel handles the basic functions of the operating system: memory allocation, process allocation, device input and output, etc...

Unbreakable Enterprise kernel security update

kernel-uek 2.6.32-400.37.2uek - netfilter: conntrack: disable generic tracking for known protocols Florian Westphal Orabug: 20679631 CVE-2014-8160 - mac80211: fix fragmentation code, particularly for encryption Johannes Berg Orabug: 20673314 CVE-2014-8709 - tracing/syscalls: Ignore numbers outsid...

RHEL 7 : kernel (RHSA-2015:0290)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2015:0290 advisory. The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system. A flaw was found in the way the Linux kernel's XFS fil...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: kernel security and bug fix update

Updated kernel packages that fix one security issue and three bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.4 Extended Update Support. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having Important security impact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a...

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-2015-0076 Updated kernel-tmb packages fix security vulnerabilities

This kernel-tmb update is based on upstream -longterm 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, which allows local users to cause a deni...

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-2015-0075 Updated kernel-linus packages fix security vulnerabilities

This kernel-linus update is based on upstream -longterm 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, which allows local users to cause a...

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...

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...

Scientific Linux Security Update : kernel on SL5.x i386/x86_64 (20150210)

A flaw was found in the way the Linux kernel's splice system call validated its parameters. On certain file systems, a local, unprivileged user could use this flaw to write past the maximum file size, and thus crash the system. CVE-2014-7822, Moderate This update also fixes the following bugs : -...

CentOS Update for kernel CESA-2015:0102 centos7

Check the version of kernel SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2015 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"1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.882114";...

Unbreakable Enterprise kernel security and bugfix update

2.6.39-400.246.2 - net: sctp: fix NULL pointer dereference in af-fromaddrparam on malformed packet Daniel Borkmann Orabug: 20425333 CVE-2014-7841 2.6.39-400.246.1 - sched: Fix possible divide by zero in avgatom calculation Mateusz Guzik Orabug: 20148169 - include/linux/math64.h: add div64ul Alex...

CentOS Update for kernel CESA-2015:0087 centos6

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kernel security and bug fix update

3.10.0-123.20.1 - Oracle Linux certificates Alexey Petrenko 3.10.0-123.20.1 - fs seqfile: don't include mm.h in genksyms calculation Ian Kent 1184152 1183280 3.10.0-123.19.1 - mm shmem: fix splicing from a hole while it's punched Denys Vlasenko 1118244 1118245 CVE-2014-4171 - mm shmem: fix faulti...

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...