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...

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...

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...

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-2018-0340 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...

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...

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS : Linux kernel vulnerabilities (USN-3741-1)

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-3741-1 advisory. It was discovered that memory present in the L1 data cache of an Intel CPU core may be exposed to a malicious process that is executing on the CPU core...

Oracle Linux 6 : kernel (ELSA-2018-2390)

The remote Oracle Linux 6 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2018-2390 advisory. - kernel cpu/hotplug: Enable 'nosmt' as late as possible Frantisek Hrbata 1593376 CVE-2018-3620 - x86 x86/mm: Simplify pg4umdpage macros Josh Poimboeuf...

Security Bulletin: IBM QRadar Network Security is affected by Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Summary IBM QRadar Network Security has addressed the following vulnerabilities. Vulnerability Details CVEID: CVE-2018-1000004 DESCRIPTION: Linux Kernel is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a race condition in the sound system. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to caus...

MGASA-2018-0324 Updated kernel packages fixes security vulnerabilities

This kernel update is based on the upstream 4.14.56 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 exceptio...

Virtuozzo 6 : parallels-server-bm-release / vzkernel / etc (VZA-2018-048)

According to the versions of the parallels-server-bm-release / vzkernel / etc packages installed, the Virtuozzo installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerabilities : - x86 AMD An industry-wide issue was found in the way many modern microprocessor designs have implemented...