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-2013-0373 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-2013-0372 Updated kernel-linus packages fix security vulnerabilities

This kernel-linus 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...

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-2013-0371 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,...

Scientific Linux Security Update : kernel on SL6.x i386/x86_64 (20131212)

A flaw was found in the way the Linux kernel's TCP/IP protocol suite implementation handled sending of certain UDP packets over sockets that used the UDPCORK option when the UDP Fragmentation Offload UFO feature was enabled on the output device. A local, unprivileged user could use this flaw to...

[SECURITY] Fedora 20 Update: kernel-3.11.10-301.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...

Scientific Linux Security Update : kernel on SL5.x i386/x86_64 (20131205)

An information leak flaw was found in the way the Xen hypervisor handled error conditions when reading guest memory during certain guest-originated operations, such as port or memory mapped I/O writes. A privileged user in a fully-virtualized guest could use this flaw to leak hypervisor stack...

MGASA-2013-0346 Updated kernel-vserver package fixes security vulnerabilites.

This kernel-vserver update provides the upstream 3.4.69 kernel and fixes the following security issues: The ext4orphandel function in fs/ext4/namei.c in the Linux kernel before 3.7.3 does not properly handle orphan-list entries for non-journal filesystems, which allows physically proximate...

MGASA-2013-0345 Updated kernel-rt package fixes security vulnerabilites.

This kernel-rt update provides the upstream 3.4.69 kernel and fixes the following security issues: The ext4orphandel function in fs/ext4/namei.c in the Linux kernel before 3.7.3 does not properly handle orphan-list entries for non-journal filesystems, which allows physically proximate attackers t...

MGASA-2013-0344 Updated kernel-tmb package fixes security vulnerabilites.

This kernel-tmb update provides the upstream 3.4.69 kernel and fixes the following security issues: The ext4orphandel function in fs/ext4/namei.c in the Linux kernel before 3.7.3 does not properly handle orphan-list entries for non-journal filesystems, which allows physically proximate attackers ...

Updated kernel-linus package fixes security vulnerabilites.

This kernel-linus update provides the upstream 3.4.69 kernel and fixes the following security issues: The ext4orphandel function in fs/ext4/namei.c in the Linux kernel before 3.7.3 does not properly handle orphan-list entries for non-journal filesystems, which allows physically proximate attacker...

MGASA-2013-0342 Updated kernel package fixes security vulnerabilites.

This kernel update provides the upstream 3.4.69 kernel and fixes the following security issues: The ext4orphandel function in fs/ext4/namei.c in the Linux kernel before 3.7.3 does not properly handle orphan-list entries for non-journal filesystems, which allows physically proximate attackers to...

Updated kernel package fixes security vulnerabilites.

This kernel update provides the upstream 3.4.69 kernel and fixes the following security issues: The ext4orphandel function in fs/ext4/namei.c in the Linux kernel before 3.7.3 does not properly handle orphan-list entries for non-journal filesystems, which allows physically proximate attackers to...

SuSE 11.2 Security Update : Linux Kernel (SAT Patch Numbers 8509 / 8516 / 8518)

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 Service Pack 2 kernel was updated to version 3.0.101 and also includes various other bug and security fixes. The following features have been added : - Drivers: hv: Support handling multiple VMBUS versions FATE314665. - Drivers: hv: Save and export negotiated vmbus...

[ MDVSA-2013:265 ] kernel

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Mandriva Linux Security Advisory MDVSA-2013:265 http://www.mandriva.com/en/support/security/ Package : kernel Date : November 10, 2013 Affected: Business Server 1.0 Problem Description: Multiple vulnerabilities has been found and corrected in the Linu...

[SECURITY] Fedora 20 Update: kernel-3.11.7-300.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...

Scientific Linux Security Update : kernel on SL5.x i386/x86_64 (20131022)

A flaw was found in the way the Linux kernel handled the creation of temporary IPv6 addresses. If the IPv6 privacy extension was enabled /proc/sys/net/ipv6/conf/eth0/usetempaddr is set to '2', an attacker on the local network could disable IPv6 temporary address generation, leading to a potential...

Scientific Linux Security Update : Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 kernel update on SL5.x i386/x86_64 (20130930)

This update fixes the following security issue : It was found that a deadlock could occur in the Out of Memory OOM killer. A process could trigger this deadlock by consuming a large amount of memory, and then causing requestmodule to be called. A local, unprivileged user could use this flaw to...

[SECURITY] Fedora 19 Update: kernel-3.11.4-201.fc19

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...