Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : Linux kernel vulnerabilities (USN-2337-1)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-2337-1 advisory. A flaw was discovered in the Linux kernel virtual machine's kvm validation of interrupt requests irq. A guest OS user could exploit this flaw to cause a...

MGASA-2014-0332 Updated kernel-vserver package fixes security vulnerabilities

Updated kernel-vserver provides upstream 3.10.51 kernel and fixes the following security issues: Array index error in the aioreadeventsring function in fs/aio.c in the Linux kernel through 3.15.1 allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel memory via a large head value...

MGASA-2014-0331 Updated kernel-tmb package fixes security vulnerabilities

Updated kernel-tmb provides upstream 3.10.51 kernel and fixes the following security issues: Array index error in the aioreadeventsring function in fs/aio.c in the Linux kernel through 3.15.1 allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel memory via a large head value CVE-2014-020...

MGASA-2014-0336 Updated kernel-linus package fixes security vulnerabilities

Updated kernel-linus provides upstream 3.12.26 kernel and fixes the following security issues: Array index error in the aioreadeventsring function in fs/aio.c in the Linux kernel through 3.15.1 allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel memory via a large head value...

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : Linux kernel vulnerabilities (USN-2318-1)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-2318-1 advisory. Eric W. Biederman discovered a flaw with the mediation of mount flags in the Linux kernel's user namespace subsystem. An unprivileged user could exploit...

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS : linux-lts-trusty vulnerabilities (USN-2317-1)

Eric W. Biederman discovered a flaw with the mediation of mount flags in the Linux kernel's user namespace subsystem. An unprivileged user could exploit this flaw to by-pass mount restrictions, and potentially gain administrative privileges. CVE-2014-5207 Kenton Varda discovered a flaw with...

Oracle Linux 7 : kernel (ELSA-2014-1023)

The remote Oracle Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2014-1023 advisory. - net l2tpppp: fail when socket option level is not SOLPPPOL2TP Petr Matousek 1119465 1119466 CVE-2014-4943 - x86 ptrace: force IRET path after a...

Oracle Linux 6 : kernel (ELSA-2014-0924)

The remote Oracle Linux 6 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2014-0924 advisory. - netdrv pppol2tp: fail when socket option level is not SOLPPPOL2TP 1119461 1119462 CVE-2014-4943 Tenable has extracted the preceding description block...

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS : linux-lts-quantal vulnerabilities (USN-2285-1)

Sasha Levin reported a flaw in the Linux kernel's point-to-point protocol PPP when used with the Layer Two Tunneling Protocol L2TP. A local user could exploit this flaw to gain administrative privileges. CVE-2014-4943 Michael S. Tsirkin discovered an information leak in the Linux kernel's...

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS : linux-lts-saucy vulnerabilities (USN-2287-1)

Sasha Levin reported a flaw in the Linux kernel's point-to-point protocol PPP when used with the Layer Two Tunneling Protocol L2TP. A local user could exploit this flaw to gain administrative privileges. CVE-2014-4943 Michael S. Tsirkin discovered an information leak in the Linux kernel's...

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : Linux kernel vulnerabilities (USN-2290-1)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-2290-1 advisory. Sasha Levin reported a flaw in the Linux kernel's point-to-point protocol PPP when used with the Layer Two Tunneling Protocol L2TP. A local user could...

Oracle Linux 6 : kernel (ELSA-2014-0771)

The remote Oracle Linux 6 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2014-0771 advisory. - kernel futex: Make lookuppistate more robust Jerome Marchand 1104516 1104517 CVE-2014-3153 - kernel futex: Always cleanup owner tid in unlockpi Jerom...

[SECURITY] [DSA 2952-1] kfreebsd-9 security update

------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory DSA-2952-1 [email protected] http://www.debian.org/security/ Nico Golde June 05, 2014 http://www.debian.org/security/faq - -------------------------------------------------------------------------...

Debian Security Advisory DSA 2952-1 (kfreebsd-9 - security update)

Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the FreeBSD kernel that may lead to a denial of service or possibly disclosure of kernel memory. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems: CVE-2014-1453 A remote, authenticated attacker could cause the NFS...

[USN-2228-1] Linux kernel vulnerabilities

========================================================================== Ubuntu Security Notice USN-2228-1 May 27, 2014 linux vulnerabilities ========================================================================== A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives: - Ubunt...

MGASA-2014-0238 Updated kernel-vserver packages fix multiple vulnerabilities

Updated kernel-vserver provides upstream 3.10.40 kernel 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 denial of...

MGASA-2014-0237 Updated kernel-rt packages fix multiple vulnerabilities

Updated kernel-rt provides upstream 3.10.40 kernel 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 denial of servi...

MGASA-2014-0235 Updated kernel-linus packages fix multiple security vulnerabilities

Updated kernel-linus provides upstream 3.10.40 kernel 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 denial of...

MGASA-2014-0234 Updated kernel-tmb packages fix multiple bugs and vulnerabilities

Updated kernel-tmb provides upstream 3.12.20 kernel and fixes the following security issues: Buffer overflow in the completeemulatedmmio function in arch/x86/kvm/ x86.c in the Linux kernel before 3.13.6 allows guest OS users to execute arbitrary code on the host OS by leveraging a loop that...

MGASA-2014-0229 Updated kernel-vserver packages fix multiple vulnerabilities

Updated kernel-vserver provides upstream 3.10.40 kernel 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 denial of...