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: 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...

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...

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...

Virtuozzo 7 : readykernel-patch (VZA-2017-065)

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 : - The mqnotify function in the Linux kernel through 4.11.9 does not set the sock pointer to NULL upon entry into the...

Virtuozzo 7 : readykernel-patch (VZA-2017-058)

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 implementation of vxlan interfaces in the Linux kernel. A privileged user inside a...

Slackware 14.2 / current : kernel (SSA:2017-181-02) (Stack Clash)

New kernel packages are available for Slackware 14.2 and -current to fix security issues. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from Slackware Security Advisory 2017-181-02. The text itself is copyright C Slackwa...

Oracle Linux 7 : kernel (ELSA-2017-1615)

The remote Oracle Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2017-1615 advisory. - mm enlarge stack guard gap Larry Woodman 1452732 1452733 CVE-2017-1000364 - fs nfsd: stricter decoding of write-like NFSv2/v3 ops 'J. Bruce Fields'...

Ubuntu 17.04 : linux, linux-raspi2 vulnerabilities (USN-3345-1)

USN 3324-1 fixed a vulnerability in the Linux kernel. However, that fix introduced regressions for some Java applications. This update addresses the issue. We apologize for the inconvenience. Roee Hay discovered that the parallel port printer driver in the Linux kernel did not properly bounds che...

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : Linux kernel vulnerabilities (USN-3343-1)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-3343-1 advisory. USN 3335-1 fixed a vulnerability in the Linux kernel. However, that fix introduced regressions for some Java applications. This update addresses the issu...

USN-3342-2 linux-hwe vulnerabilities

USN-3342-1 fixed vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel for Ubuntu 16.10. This update provides the corresponding updates for the Linux Hardware Enablement HWE kernel from Ubuntu 16.10 for Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. USN-3333-1 fixed a vulnerability in the Linux kernel. However, that fix introduced regressions...

USN-3343-1 linux vulnerabilities

USN 3335-1 fixed a vulnerability in the Linux kernel. However, that fix introduced regressions for some Java applications. This update addresses the issue. We apologize for the inconvenience. It was discovered that a use-after-free vulnerability in the core voltage regulator driver of the Linux...

Ubuntu 16.10 : linux-meta-raspi2, linux-raspi2 vulnerabilities (USN-3327-1) (Stack Clash)

It was discovered that a use-after-free flaw existed in the filesystem encryption subsystem in the Linux kernel. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service system crash. CVE-2017-7374 It was discovered that the stack guard page for processes in the Linux kernel was not...

Ubuntu 16.10 : linux, linux-meta vulnerabilities (USN-3326-1) (Stack Clash)

It was discovered that a use-after-free flaw existed in the filesystem encryption subsystem in the Linux kernel. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service system crash. CVE-2017-7374 It was discovered that the stack guard page for processes in the Linux kernel was not...

SUSE-SU-2017:1613-1 Security update for the Linux Kernel

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 SP3 kernel was updated to receive various security fixes. The following security bugs were fixed: - CVE-2017-1000364: The default stack guard page was too small and could be 'jumped over' by userland programs using more than one page of stack in functions and so lead ...

USN-3312-1 linux, linux-aws, linux-gke, linux-raspi2, linux-snapdragon vulnerabilities

It was discovered that the netfilter netlink implementation in the Linux kernel did not properly validate batch messages. A local attacker with the CAPNETADMIN capability could use this to expose sensitive information or cause a denial of service. CVE-2016-7917 Qian Zhang discovered a heap-based...

USN-3293-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Dmitry Vyukov discovered that KVM implementation in the Linux kernel improperly emulated the VMXON instruction. A local attacker in a guest OS could use this to cause a denial of service memory consumption in the host OS. CVE-2017-2596 Dmitry Vyukov discovered that the generic SCSI sg subsystem i...