Ubuntu 16.04 LTS : Linux kernel vulnerabilities (USN-3582-1)

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-3582-1 advisory. Mohamed Ghannam discovered that the IPv4 raw socket implementation in the Linux kernel contained a race condition leading to uninitialized pointer usage....

MGASA-2018-0127 Updated kernel-linus packages fix security vulnerabilities

This kernel-linus update is based on the upstream 4.14.18 and adds some support for mitigating Spectre, variant 1 CVE-2017-5753 and as it is built with the retpoline-aware gcc-5.5.0-1.mga6, it now provides full retpoline mitigation for Spectre, variant 2 CVE-2017-5715. The BPF interpreter has bee...

RHEL 6 : kernel (RHSA-2018:0022)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 6 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2018:0022 advisory. The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system. Security Fixes: An industry-wide issue was found in th...

SUSE-SU-2017:3265-1 Security update for the Linux Kernel

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 SP4 kernel was updated to receive various security and bugfixes. The following security bugs were fixed: - CVE-2017-16649: The usbnetgenericcdcbind function in drivers/net/usb/cdcether.c in the Linux kernel allowed local users to cause a denial of service divide-by-ze...

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : Linux kernel (AWS) vulnerabilities (USN-3485-3)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-3485-3 advisory. It was discovered that a race condition existed in the ALSA subsystem of the Linux kernel when creating and deleting a port via ioctl. A local attacker...

RHEL 6 : kernel (RHSA-2017:3200)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 6 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2017:3200 advisory. The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system. Security Fixes: A race condition issue leading to a...

Linux Soft Exploit Suggester - Search Exploitable Software On Linux

linux-soft-exploit-suggester finds exploits for all vulnerable software in a system helping with the privilege escalation. It focuses on software packages instead of Kernel vulnerabilities. python linux-soft-exploit-suggester.py -h | | | | | |·| || |/ | || |- //| || |·|- | || | / |- /| ||| |||/...

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS : Linux kernel (GCP) vulnerabilities (USN-3468-3)

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-3468-3 advisory. It was discovered that the KVM subsystem in the Linux kernel did not properly bound guest IRQs. A local attacker in a guest VM could use this to cause a...

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS : Linux kernel vulnerabilities (USN-3469-1)

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-3469-1 advisory. Anthony Perard discovered that the Xen virtual block driver did not properly initialize some data structures before passing them to user space. A local...

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : Linux kernel vulnerabilities (USN-3470-1)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-3470-1 advisory. Qian Zhang discovered a heap-based buffer overflow in the tipcmsgbuild function in the Linux kernel. A local attacker could use to cause a denial of...

SUSE-SU-2017:2869-1 Security update for the Linux Kernel

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 SP2 kernel was updated to 4.4.90 to receive various security and bugfixes. The following security bugs were fixed: - CVE-2017-1000252: The KVM subsystem in the Linux kernel allowed guest OS users to cause a denial of service assertion failure, and hypervisor hang or...

MGASA-2017-0342 Updated kernel packages fix security vulnerabilities

This kernel update is based on upstream 4.9.50 and fixes at least the following security issues: net/xfrm/xfrmpolicy.c in the Linux kernel through 4.12.3, when CONFIGXFRMMIGRATE is enabled, does not ensure that the dir value of xfrmuserpolicyid is XFRMPOLICYMAX or less, which allows local users t...

MGASA-2017-0347 Updated kernel-linus packages fix security vulnerabilities

This kernel-öinus update is based on upstream 4.4.88 and fixes at least the following security issues: net/xfrm/xfrmpolicy.c in the Linux kernel through 4.12.3, when CONFIGXFRMMIGRATE is enabled, does not ensure that the dir value of xfrmuserpolicyid is XFRMPOLICYMAX or less, which allows local...

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS : Linux kernel vulnerabilities (USN-3385-1)

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-3385-1 advisory. Andrey Konovalov discovered a race condition in the UDP Fragmentation Offload UFO code in the Linux kernel. A local attacker could use this to cause a...

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : Linux kernel vulnerabilities (USN-3381-1)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-3381-1 advisory. Peter Pi discovered that the colormap handling for frame buffer devices in the Linux kernel contained an integer overflow. A local attacker could use thi...

Virtuozzo 7 : readykernel-patch (VZA-2017-067)

According to the version of the vzkernel package and the readykernel-patch installed, the Virtuozzo installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerabilities : - A vulnerability was found in the handling of xfrm Netlink messages. A privileged user inside a container could cause...

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS : Linux kernel vulnerabilities (USN-3378-1)

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-3378-1 advisory. Fan Wu and Shixiong Zhao discovered a race condition between inotify events and vfs rename operations in the Linux kernel. An unprivileged local attacker...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-3377-2)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2017 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-3360-2: Linux kernel (Trusty HWE) vulnerabilities

USN-3360-1 fixed vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel for Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. This update provides the corresponding updates for the Linux Hardware Enablement HWE kernel from Ubuntu 14.04 LTS for Ubuntu 12.04 ESM. It was discovered that the Linux kernel did not properly initialize a Wake- on-Lan dat...

EulerOS 2.0 SP2 : kernel (EulerOS-SA-2017-1123)

According to the versions of the kernel packages installed, the EulerOS installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerabilities : - The regulatorenagpiofree function in drivers/regulator/core.c in the Linux kernel allows local users to gain privileges or cause a denial of...