Oracle Linux 7 : kernel (ELSA-2018-3651)

The remote Oracle Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2018-3651 advisory. - net rtnetlink: give a user socket to gettargetnet Jiri Benc 1639635 1630694 CVE-2018-14646 - net Add variants of capable for use on on sockets Jiri...

USN-3821-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Wen Xu discovered that the ext4 filesystem implementation in the Linux kernel did not properly ensure that xattr information remained in inode bodies. An attacker could use this to construct a malicious ext4 image that, when mounted, could cause a denial of service system crash. CVE-2018-10880 It...

USN-3820-2: Linux kernel (HWE) vulnerabilities

USN-3820-1 fixed vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel for Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. This update provides the corresponding updates for the Linux Hardware Enablement HWE kernel from Ubuntu 18.04 LTS for Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. Felix Wilhelm discovered that the Xen netback driver in the Linux kernel did not...

RHEL 7 : kernel (RHSA-2018:3540)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2018:3540 advisory. - kernel: out-of-bounds access in the showtimer function in kernel/time/posix-timers.c CVE-2017-18344 - kernel: IP fragments with random...

RHEL 7 : kernel-rt (RHSA-2018:3096)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2018:3096 advisory. The kernel-rt packages provide the Real Time Linux Kernel, which enables fine-tuning for systems with extremely high determinism requirement...

Oracle Linux 6 : Unbreakable Enterprise kernel (ELSA-2018-4250)

The remote Oracle Linux 6 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2018-4250 advisory. - Fix up non-directory creation in SGID directories Linus Torvalds Orabug: 28459479 CVE-2018-13405 - ALSA: seq: Make ioctls race-free Takashi Iwai...

Google Adds Control-Flow Integrity to Beef up Android Kernel Security

Google has added a new security feature to the latest Linux kernels for Android devices to prevent it against code reuse attacks that allow attackers to achieve arbitrary code execution by exploiting control-flow hijacking vulnerabilities. In code reuse attacks, attackers exploit memory corruptio...

Oracle Linux 6 : kernel (ELSA-2018-2846)

The remote Oracle Linux 6 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2018-2846 advisory. - fs exec: Limit arg stack to at most 75 of STKLIM Yauheni Kaliuta 1625976 CVE-2018-14634 - fs exec.c: account for argv/envp pointers Yauheni Kaliuta...

[SECURITY] [DLA 1531-1] linux-4.9 security update

Package : linux-4.9 Version : 4.9.110-3+deb9u5deb8u1 CVE ID : CVE-2018-6554 CVE-2018-6555 CVE-2018-7755 CVE-2018-9363 CVE-2018-9516 CVE-2018-10902 CVE-2018-10938 CVE-2018-13099 CVE-2018-14609 CVE-2018-14617 CVE-2018-14633 CVE-2018-14678 CVE-2018-14734 CVE-2018-15572 CVE-2018-15594 CVE-2018-16276...

SUSE-SU-2018:2980-1 Security update for the Linux Kernel

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 kernel was updated to receive various security and bugfixes. The following security bugs were fixed: - CVE-2018-14617: Prevent NULL pointer dereference and panic in hfspluslookup when opening a file that is purportedly a hard link in an hfs+ filesystem that has...

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS : Linux kernel vulnerabilities (USN-3776-1)

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-3776-1 advisory. Jann Horn discovered that the vmacache subsystem did not properly handle sequence number overflows, leading to a use-after-free vulnerability. A local...

Debian DSA-4308-1 : linux - security update

Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Linux kernel that may lead to a privilege escalation, denial of service or information leaks. - CVE-2018-6554 A memory leak in the irdabind function in the irda subsystem was discovered. A local user can take advantage of this flaw to cause a...

SUSE-SU-2018:2908-1 Security update for the Linux Kernel

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 SP1 kernel was updated receive various security and bugfixes. The following security bugs were fixed: - CVE-2018-14634: Prevent integer overflow in createelftables that allowed a local attacker to exploit this vulnerability via a SUID-root binary and obtain full root...

SUSE-SU-2018:2907-1 Security update for the Linux Kernel

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 SP3 kernel was updated to receive various security and bugfixes. The following security bugs were fixed: - CVE-2018-14634: Prevent integer overflow in createelftables that allowed a local attacker to exploit this vulnerability via a SUID-root binary and obtain full ro...

SUSE-SU-2018:2858-1 Security update for the Linux Kernel

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 SP3 azure kernel was updated to 4.4.155 to receive various security and bugfixes. The following security bugs were fixed: - CVE-2018-13093: Prevent NULL pointer dereference and panic in lookupslow on a NULL inode-iops pointer when doing pathwalks on a corrupted xfs...

USN-3753-1 linux, linux-aws, linux-kvm, linux-raspi2, linux-snapdragon vulnerabilities

It was discovered that the generic SCSI driver in the Linux kernel did not properly enforce permissions on kernel memory access. A local attacker could use this to expose sensitive information or possibly elevate privileges. CVE-2017-13168 Wen Xu discovered that a use-after-free vulnerability...

Ubuntu 18.04 LTS : Linux kernel vulnerabilities (USN-3752-1)

The remote Ubuntu 18.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-3752-1 advisory. It was discovered that, when attempting to handle an out-of-memory situation, a null pointer dereference could be triggered in the Linux kernel in some...

SUSE-SU-2018:2380-1 Security update for the Linux Kernel

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 kernel was updated to receive various security and bugfixes. The following security bugs were fixed: - CVE-2018-3620: Local attackers on baremetal systems could use speculative code patterns on hyperthreaded processors to read data present in the L1 Datacache used by...

MGASA-2018-0341 Updated kernel-linus packages fix security vulnerabilities

This kernel-linus update is based on the upstream 4.14.62 and fixes at least the following security issues: kernel KVM before versions kernel 4.16, kernel 4.16-rc7, kernel 4.17-rc1, kernel 4.17-rc2 and kernel 4.17-rc3 is vulnerable to a flaw in the way the Linux kernel's KVM hypervisor handled...

MGASA-2018-0340 Updated kernel-tmb packages fix security vulnerabilities

This kernel-tmb update is based on the upstream 4.14.62 and fixes at least the following security issues: kernel KVM before versions kernel 4.16, kernel 4.16-rc7, kernel 4.17-rc1, kernel 4.17-rc2 and kernel 4.17-rc3 is vulnerable to a flaw in the way the Linux kernel's KVM hypervisor handled...