SUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : kernel (SUSE-SU-2018:0010-1) (Meltdown) (Spectre)

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 SP3 kernel was updated to receive various security and bugfixes. This update adds mitigations for various side channel attacks against modern CPUs that could disclose content of otherwise unreadable memory bnc1068032. - CVE-2017-5753 / 'SpectreAttack': Local attackers...

RHEL 6 : kernel (RHSA-2018:0008) (Meltdown) (Spectre)

An update for kernel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from th...

(RHSA-2018:0009) Important: kernel security update

The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system. Security Fixes: An industry-wide issue was found in the way many modern microprocessor designs have implemented speculative execution of instructions a commonly used performance optimization. There are three...

SUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : kernel (SUSE-SU-2017:3410-1)

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 SP2 kernel was updated to 4.4.103 to receive various security and bugfixes. This update enables SMB encryption in the CIFS support in the Linux Kernel fate324404 The following security bugs were fixed : - CVE-2017-1000410: The Linux kernel was affected by an informati...

SUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : kernel (SUSE-SU-2017:3398-1)

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 SP3 kernel was updated to 4.4.103 to receive various security and bugfixes. The following security bugs were fixed : - CVE-2017-1000410: The Linux kernel was affected by an information lea that lies in the processing of incoming L2CAP commands - ConfigRequest, and...

Fedora 26 : kernel (2017-7810b7c59f)

The 4.14.8 stable kernel update contains a number of important fixes across the tree. ---- The 4.14.7 stable kernel update contains a number of important fixes across the tree. Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system...

MGASA-2017-0467 Updated kernel-linus packages fix security vulnerabilities

This kernel-linus update is based on upstream 4.4.105 and fixes at least the following security issues: A security flaw was discovered in nl80211setrekeydata function in the Linux kernel since v3.1-rc1 through v4.13. This function does not check whether the required attributes are present in a...

MGASA-2017-0466 Updated kernel-tmb packages fix security vulnerabilities

This kernel-tmb update is based on upstream 4.4.105 and fixes at least the following security issues: A security flaw was discovered in nl80211setrekeydata function in the Linux kernel since v3.1-rc1 through v4.13. This function does not check whether the required attributes are present in a...

Keyexchange error on Linux managed server after updating the kernel

Challenge Steps to correct Keyexchange errors on newly updated Linux managed server Cause Veeam SSH client caches both the Key and the encryption method. If the Linux kernel depreciates an encryption method when the kernel updates, connections to the managed server may fail with error such as...

MGASA-2017-0463 Updated kernel packages fix security vulnerabilities

This kernel update is based on upstream 4.4.105 and fixes at least the following security issues: A security flaw was discovered in nl80211setrekeydata function in the Linux kernel since v3.1-rc1 through v4.13. This function does not check whether the required attributes are present in a netlink...

Updated kernel packages fix security vulnerabilities

This kernel update is based on upstream 4.4.105 and fixes at least the following security issues: A security flaw was discovered in nl80211setrekeydata function in the Linux kernel since v3.1-rc1 through v4.13. This function does not check whether the required attributes are present in a netlink...

SUSE-SU-2017:3410-1 Security update for the Linux Kernel

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 SP2 kernel was updated to 4.4.103 to receive various security and bugfixes. This update enables SMB encryption in the CIFS support in the Linux Kernel fate324404 The following security bugs were fixed: - CVE-2017-1000410: The Linux kernel was affected by an informatio...

SUSE-SU-2017:3398-1 Security update for the Linux Kernel

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 SP3 kernel was updated to 4.4.103 to receive various security and bugfixes. The following security bugs were fixed: - CVE-2017-1000410: The Linux kernel was affected by an information lea that lies in the processing of incoming L2CAP commands - ConfigRequest, and...

Important kernel security update: Virtuozzo ReadyKernel patch 40.0 for Virtuozzo 7.0.4 and 7.0.4 HF3

The cumulative Virtuozzo ReadyKernel patch was updated with security and stability fixes. The patch applies to Virtuozzo kernels 3.10.0-514.16.1.vz7.30.10 Virtuozzo 7.0.4 and 3.10.0-514.16.1.vz7.30.15 Virtuozzo 7.0.4 HF3 Vulnerability id: PSBM-78904 Potential use-after-free in the processing of...

SUSE-SU-2017:3340-1 Security update for the Linux Kernel (Live Patch 13 for SLE 12 SP1)

This update for the Linux Kernel 3.12.69-606432 fixes several issues. The following security issues were fixed: - CVE-2017-16939: The XFRM dump policy implementation in net/xfrm/xfrmuser.c allowed local users to gain privileges or cause a denial of service use-after-free via a crafted SORCVBUF...

SUSE-SU-2017:3338-1 Security update for the Linux Kernel (Live Patch 22 for SLE 12 SP1)

This update for the Linux Kernel 3.12.74-606463 fixes one issue. The following security issue was fixed: - CVE-2017-16939: The XFRM dump policy implementation in net/xfrm/xfrmuser.c allowed local users to gain privileges or cause a denial of service use-after-free via a crafted SORCVBUF setsockop...

SUSE-SU-2017:3336-1 Security update for the Linux Kernel (Live Patch 17 for SLE 12 SP1)

This update for the Linux Kernel 3.12.74-606448 fixes several issues. The following security issues were fixed: - CVE-2017-16939: The XFRM dump policy implementation in net/xfrm/xfrmuser.c allowed local users to gain privileges or cause a denial of service use-after-free via a crafted SORCVBUF...

SUSE-SU-2017:3332-1 Security update for the Linux Kernel (Live Patch 14 for SLE 12 SP1)

This update for the Linux Kernel 3.12.69-606435 fixes several issues. The following security issues were fixed: - CVE-2017-16939: The XFRM dump policy implementation in net/xfrm/xfrmuser.c allowed local users to gain privileges or cause a denial of service use-after-free via a crafted SORCVBUF...

SUSE SLES12 Security Update : kernel (SUSE-SU-2017:3303-1)

This update for the Linux Kernel 3.12.61-5289 fixes several issues. The following security issues were fixed : - CVE-2017-16939: The XFRM dump policy implementation in net/xfrm/xfrmuser.c allowed local users to gain privileges or cause a denial of service use-after-free via a crafted SORCVBUF...

SUSE SLES12 Security Update : kernel (SUSE-SU-2017:3322-1)

This update for the Linux Kernel 3.12.74-606460 fixes several issues. The following security issues were fixed : - CVE-2017-16939: The XFRM dump policy implementation in net/xfrm/xfrmuser.c allowed local users to gain privileges or cause a denial of service use-after-free via a crafted SORCVBUF...