Security update for the Linux Kernel (important)

The openSUSE 13.1 kernel was updated to 3.12.62 to receive various security and bugfixes. The following security bugs were fixed: - CVE-2014-9904: The sndcompresscheckinput function in sound/core/compressoffload.c in the ALSA subsystem in the Linux kernel did not properly check for an integer...

SUSE-SU-2016:2174-1 Security update for Linux Kernel Live Patch 0 for SLE 12 SP1

This update for the Linux Kernel 3.12.49-11 fixes several issues. The following security bugs were fixed: - CVE-2016-6480: Race condition in the ioctlsendfib function in drivers/scsi/aacraid/commctrl.c in the Linux kernel allowed local users to cause a denial of service out-of-bounds access or...

SUSE-SU-2016:2179-1 Security update for Linux Kernel Live Patch 2 for SLE 12 SP1

This update for the Linux Kernel 3.12.51-6025 fixes several issues. The following security bugs were fixed: - CVE-2016-6480: Race condition in the ioctlsendfib function in drivers/scsi/aacraid/commctrl.c in the Linux kernel allowed local users to cause a denial of service out-of-bounds access or...

SUSE SLES11 Security Update : kernel (SUSE-SU-2016:1672-1)

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 SP4 kernel was updated to receive various security and bugfixes. Notable changes in this kernel : - It is now possible to mount a NFS export on the exporting host directly. The following security bugs were fixed : - CVE-2016-5244: A kernel information leak in...

SUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : kernel (SUSE-SU-2016:1709-1)

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 kernel was updated to receive critical security and bugfixes. Security issue fixed : - CVE-2016-4997: A buffer overflow in 32bit compatsetsockopt iptables handling could lead to a local privilege escalation. bsc986362 The update package also includes non-security fixe...

SUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : kernel (SUSE-SU-2016:1690-1)

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 kernel was updated to 3.12.60 to receive various security and bugfixes. The following security bugs were fixed : - CVE-2014-9717: fs/namespace.c in the Linux kernel processes MNTDETACH umount2 system called without verifying that the MNTLOCKED flag is unset, which...

Fedora 24 : kernel (2016-5e24d8c350)

The 4.6.7 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 website. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing...

RHEL 7 : kernel (RHSA-2016:1657)

An update for kernel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.1 Extended Update Support. 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...

kernel security and bug fix update

2.6.32-642.4.2 - net tcp: make challenge acks less predictable Florian Westphal 1355606 1355607 CVE-2016-5696 2.6.32-642.4.1 - ipmi Remove smimsg from waitingrcvmsgs list before handleonerecvmsg David Arcari 1355980 1347189 - fs ext4: Remove useless spinlock in ext4getattr Lukas Czerner 1355981...

CentOS 7 : kernel (CESA-2016:1633)

An update for kernel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. 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...

Scientific Linux Security Update : kernel on SL7.x x86_64 (20160818)

It was found that the RFC 5961 challenge ACK rate limiting as implemented in the Linux kernel's networking subsystem allowed an off-path attacker to leak certain information about a given connection by creating congestion on the global challenge ACK rate limit counter and then measuring the chang...

RHEL 7 : kernel (RHSA-2016:1633)

An update for kernel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. 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...

SUSE-SU-2016:2007-1 Security update for Linux Kernel Live Patch 3 for SLE 12 SP1

This update for the Linux Kernel 3.12.53-6030 fixes the several issues. These security issues were fixed: - CVE-2016-4470: The keyrejectandlink function in security/keys/key.c in the Linux kernel did not ensure that a certain data structure is initialized, which allowed local users to cause a...

SUSE-SU-2016:2011-1 Security update for Linux Kernel Live Patch 6 for SLE 12 SP1

This update for the Linux Kernel 3.12.59-6045 fixes the several issues. These security issues were fixed: - CVE-2016-4470: The keyrejectandlink function in security/keys/key.c in the Linux kernel did not ensure that a certain data structure is initialized, which allowed local users to cause a...

SUSE-SU-2016:2010-1 Security update for Linux Kernel Live Patch 11 for SLE 12

This update for the Linux Kernel 3.12.51-5239 fixes several issues. The following security bugs were fixed: - CVE-2016-4470: The keyrejectandlink function in security/keys/key.c in the Linux kernel did not ensure that a certain data structure is initialized, which allowed local users to cause a...

SUSE-SU-2016:2006-1 Security update for Linux Kernel Live Patch 12 for SLE 12

This update for the Linux Kernel 3.12.55-5242 fixes several issues. The following security bugs were fixed: - CVE-2016-4470: The keyrejectandlink function in security/keys/key.c in the Linux kernel did not ensure that a certain data structure is initialized, which allowed local users to cause a...

SUSE-SU-2016:2001-1 Security update for Linux Kernel Live Patch 13 for SLE 12

This update for the Linux Kernel 3.12.55-5245 fixes several issues. The following security bugs were fixed: - CVE-2016-4470: The keyrejectandlink function in security/keys/key.c in the Linux kernel did not ensure that a certain data structure is initialized, which allowed local users to cause a...

[SECURITY] Fedora 23 Update: kernel-4.6.5-200.fc23

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[SECURITY] Fedora 24 Update: kernel-4.6.5-300.fc24

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SUSE-SU-2016:1985-1 Security update for the Linux Kernel

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 SP4 RT kernel was updated to receive various security and bugfixes. The following security bugs were fixed: - CVE-2016-5829: Multiple heap-based buffer overflows in the hiddevioctlusage function in drivers/hid/usbhid/hiddev.c in the Linux kernel allowed local users to...