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...

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...

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...

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...

Unbreakable Enterprise kernel security update

kernel-uek 4.1.12-37.6.2 - KEYS: potential uninitialized variable Dan Carpenter Orabug: 24393865 CVE-2016-4470 - ovl: fix permission checking for setattr Miklos Szeredi Orabug: 24393742 CVE-2015-8660...

Unbreakable Enterprise kernel security update

2.6.39-400.283.2 - KEYS: potential uninitialized variable Dan Carpenter Orabug: 24393863 CVE-2016-4470...

SUSE-SU-2016:1937-1 Security update for the Linux Kernel

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 SP1 RT kernel was updated to 3.12.61 to receive various security and bugfixes. Main feature additions: - Improved support for Clustered File System CephFS, fate318586. The following security bugs were fixed: - CVE-2014-9717: fs/namespace.c in the Linux kernel processe...

Unbreakable Enterprise kernel security update

2.6.39-400.283.1 - atl2: Disable unimplemented scatter/gather feature Ben Hutchings Orabug: 23703990 CVE-2016-2117 - mlx4core: add module parameter to disable background init Mukesh Kacker Orabug: 23292107 - NFSv4: Don't decode fslocations if we didn't ask for them... Trond Myklebust Orabug:...

Updated kernel packages fix security vulnerability

This update is based on the upstream 4.4.16 kernel and fixes at least theese security issues: nfsd in the Linux kernel through 4.6.3 allows local users to bypass intended file-permission restrictions by setting a POSIX ACL, related to nfs2acl.c, nfs3acl.c, and nfs4acl.c. CVE-2016-1237. The...

RHEL 6 : kernel (RHSA-2016:1489)

An update for kernel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.7 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...

Fedora 24 : kernel (2016-9a16b2e14e)

Update to latest upstream stable release, Linux v4.6.4 For those with Skylake CPUs, please note that there may be instability with a recent microcode update. Read https://www.happyassassin.net/2016/07/07/psa-failure-to-boot-after-ker nel-update-on-skylake-systems/ and look for a system firmware...