SUSE-SU-2016:0785-1 Security update for the Linux Kernel

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 kernel was updated to 3.12.55 to receive various security and bugfixes. Features added: - A improved XEN blkfront module was added, which allows more I/O bandwidth. FATE320625 It is called xen-blkfront in PV, and xen-vbd-upstream in HVM mode. The following security bu...

Scientific Linux Security Update : kernel on SL5.x i386/x86_64 (20160315)

An integer overflow flaw was found in the way the Linux kernel's Frame Buffer device implementation mapped kernel memory to user space via the mmap syscall. A local user able to access a frame buffer device file /dev/fb could possibly use this flaw to escalate their privileges on the system...

[SECURITY] Fedora 22 Update: kernel-4.4.4-200.fc22

The kernel meta package...

Fedora 23 : kernel-4.4.3-300.fc23 (2016-1642a20327)

The 4.4.3 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 security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing...

SUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : kernel (SUSE-SU-2016:0585-1)

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 SP1 kernel was updated to 3.12.53 to receive various security and bugfixes. The following security bugs were fixed : - CVE-2013-7446: Use-after-free vulnerability in net/unix/afunix.c in the Linux kernel allowed local users to bypass intended AFUNIX socket permissions...

RedHat Update for kernel RHSA-2016:0185-01

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...

SUSE-SU-2016:0354-1 Security update for the Linux Kernel

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 SP3 Realtime kernel was updated to receive various security and bugfixes. Following security bugs were fixed: - CVE-2015-8104: The KVM subsystem in the Linux kernel allowed guest OS users to cause a denial of service host OS panic or hang by triggering many DB aka Deb...

SUSE-SU-2016:0336-1 Security update for kernel live patch 9

This kernel live patch for Linux Kernel 3.12.51-52.31.1 fixes a security issue: Security issues fixed: - CVE-2015-8539: A negatively instantiated user key could have been used by a local user to leverage privileges bnc958601...

openSUSE Security Update : the Linux Kernel (openSUSE-2016-124)

The openSUSE 13.1 kernel was updated to receive various security and bugfixes. Following security bugs were fixed : - CVE-2016-0728: A reference leak in keyring handling with joinsessionkeyring could lead to local attackers gain root privileges. bsc962075. - CVE-2015-7550: A local user could have...

[SECURITY] Fedora 23 Update: kernel-4.3.4-300.fc23

The kernel meta package...

SUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : kernel (SUSE-SU-2016:0186-1)

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 SP1 kernel was updated to receive a security fix. Following security bug was fixed : - A reference leak in keyring handling with joinsessionkeyring could lead to local attackers gain root privileges. bsc962075, CVE-2016-0728. Note that Tenable Network Security has...

SUSE-SU-2016:0205-1 Security update for the Linux Kernel

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 kernel was updated to receive a security fix. Following security bug was fixed: - A reference leak in keyring handling with joinsessionkeyring could lead to local attackers gain root privileges. bsc962075, CVE-2016-0728...

MGASA-2016-0032 Updated kernel-tmb packages fix security vulnerability

Perception Point Research Team found a reference leak in keyring in joinsessionkeyring that can be exploited to successfully escalate privileges from a local user to root CVE-2016-0728. Other fixes in this kernel update: - netfilter: nfnatredirect: add missing NULL pointer check...

MGASA-2016-0033 Updated kernel packages fix security vulnerability

Perception Point Research Team found a reference leak in keyring in joinsessionkeyring that can be exploited to successfully escalate privileges from a local user to root CVE-2016-0728. Other fixes in this kernel update: - netfilter: nfnatredirect: add missing NULL pointer check...

SUSE-SU-2016:0186-1 Security update for the Linux Kernel

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 SP1 kernel was updated to receive a security fix. Following security bug was fixed: - A reference leak in keyring handling with joinsessionkeyring could lead to local attackers gain root privileges. bsc962075, CVE-2016-0728...

Amazon Linux AMI : kernel (ALAS-2016-642)

Perception Point Research identified a use-after-free vulnerability, representing a local privilege escalation vulnerability in the Linux kernel. Their post contains a detailed analysis of the bug. kernel-4.1.13-19.30.amzn1 and earlier versions are impacted. C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The...

SUSE-SU-2016:0168-1 Security update for the Linux Kernel

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 kernel was updated to receive various security and bugfixes. Following security bugs were fixed: - CVE-2015-7550: A local user could have triggered a race between read and revoke in keyctl bnc958951. - CVE-2015-8539: A negatively instantiated user key could have been...

MGASA-2016-0015 Updated kernel-tmb packages provides 4.1 longterm kernel and fixes security issues

This kernel-tmb update provides an upgrade to the upstream 4.1 longterm kernel series, currently based on 4.1.15 and resolves at least the following security issues: It was found that the Linux kernel's keyring implementation would leak memory when adding a key to a keyring via the addkey functio...

MGASA-2016-0014 Updated kernel-linus packages fix security vulnerabilities

This kernel-linus update is based on upstream 4.1.15 longterm kernel and fixes the following security issues: The virtnetprobe function in drivers/net/virtionet.c in the Linux kernel before 4.2 attempts to support a FRAGLIST feature without proper memory allocation, which allows guest OS users to...

Mageia: Security Advisory (MGASA-2016-0005)

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...