Updated kernel-linus package fixes multiple vulnerabilities

This kernel update provides an update to the 3.10 longterm branch, currently 3.10.28 and fixes the following security issues: The ath9khtcsetbssidmask function in drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/htcdrvmain.c in the Linux kernel through 3.12 uses a BSSID masking approach to determine the set of MAC...

MGASA-2014-0039 Updated kernel package fixes a critical security issue

This kernel update provides an update to 3.12.9 and fixes the following critical security issue: Pageexec reported a bug in the Linux kernel's recvmmsg syscall when called from code using the x32 ABI. An unprivileged local user could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service system crash or...

Updated kernel package fixes a critical security issue

This kernel update provides an update to 3.12.9 and fixes the following critical security issue: Pageexec reported a bug in the Linux kernel's recvmmsg syscall when called from code using the x32 ABI. An unprivileged local user could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service system crash or...

MGASA-2014-0038 Updated kernel package fixes one critical and a few other security issues

This kernel update provides an update to the 3.10 longterm branch, currently 3.10.28 and fixes the following security issues: The ath9khtcsetbssidmask function in drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/htcdrvmain.c in the Linux kernel through 3.12 uses a BSSID masking approach to determine the set of MAC...

Updated kernel package fixes one critical and a few other security issues

This kernel update provides an update to the 3.10 longterm branch, currently 3.10.28 and fixes the following security issues: The ath9khtcsetbssidmask function in drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/htcdrvmain.c in the Linux kernel through 3.12 uses a BSSID masking approach to determine the set of MAC...

SUSE-SU-2015:0481-1 Security update for Linux kernel

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 Service Pack 2 kernel was updated to fix a regression introduced by the previous update: scsidhalua: Incorrect reference counting in the SCSI ALUA initialization code lead to system crashes on boot bnc858831. As the update introducing the regression was marked securit...

SuSE 11.3 Security Update : Linux kernel (SAT Patch Numbers 8823 / 8827)

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 Service Pack 3 kernel was updated to 3.0.101 and also includes various other bug and security fixes. A new feature was added : - supported.conf: marked net/netfilter/xtset as supported bnc851066fate313309 The following security bugs have been fixed : - Array index err...

Oracle Linux 5 : kernel (ELSA-2014-0108-1)

From Red Hat Security Advisory 2014:0108 : Updated kernel packages that fix one security issue and three bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having moderate security impact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS...

SuSE 11.2 Security Update : Linux kernel (SAT Patch Numbers 8779 / 8791 / 8792)

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 Service Pack 2 kernel was updated to 3.0.101 and also includes various other bug and security fixes. A new feature was added : - supported.conf: marked net/netfilter/xtset as supported bnc851066fate313309 The following security bugs have been fixed : - Array index err...

MGASA-2013-0374 Updated kernel-rt packages fix security vulnerabilities

This kernel-rt update provides an update to the 3.10 longterm branch, currently 3.10.24 and fixes the following security issues: The ipv6createtempaddr function in net/ipv6/addrconf.c in the Linux kernel through 3.10 does not properly handle problems with the generation of IPv6 temporary addresse...

Updated kernel-tmb packages fix security vulnerabilities

This kernel-tmb update provides an update to the 3.10 longterm branch, currently 3.10.24 and fixes the following security issues: The ipv6createtempaddr function in net/ipv6/addrconf.c in the Linux kernel through 3.10 does not properly handle problems with the generation of IPv6 temporary...

MGASA-2013-0373 Updated kernel-tmb packages fix security vulnerabilities

This kernel-tmb update provides an update to the 3.10 longterm branch, currently 3.10.24 and fixes the following security issues: The ipv6createtempaddr function in net/ipv6/addrconf.c in the Linux kernel through 3.10 does not properly handle problems with the generation of IPv6 temporary...

MGASA-2013-0372 Updated kernel-linus packages fix security vulnerabilities

This kernel-linus update provides an update to the 3.10 longterm branch, currently 3.10.24 and fixes the following security issues: The ipv6createtempaddr function in net/ipv6/addrconf.c in the Linux kernel through 3.10 does not properly handle problems with the generation of IPv6 temporary...

Updated kernel and related packages fix security vulnerabilities

This kernel update provides an update to the 3.10 longterm branch, currently 3.10.24 and fixes the following security issues: The ipv6createtempaddr function in net/ipv6/addrconf.c in the Linux kernel through 3.10 does not properly handle problems with the generation of IPv6 temporary addresses,...

MGASA-2013-0371 Updated kernel and related packages fix security vulnerabilities

This kernel update provides an update to the 3.10 longterm branch, currently 3.10.24 and fixes the following security issues: The ipv6createtempaddr function in net/ipv6/addrconf.c in the Linux kernel through 3.10 does not properly handle problems with the generation of IPv6 temporary addresses,...

Scientific Linux Security Update : kernel on SL6.x i386/x86_64 (20131212)

A flaw was found in the way the Linux kernel's TCP/IP protocol suite implementation handled sending of certain UDP packets over sockets that used the UDPCORK option when the UDP Fragmentation Offload UFO feature was enabled on the output device. A local, unprivileged user could use this flaw to...

[SECURITY] Fedora 20 Update: kernel-3.11.10-301.fc20

The kernel package contains the Linux kernel vmlinuz, the core of any Linux operating system. The kernel handles the basic functions of the operating system: memory allocation, process allocation, device input and output, etc...

Scientific Linux Security Update : kernel on SL5.x i386/x86_64 (20131205)

An information leak flaw was found in the way the Xen hypervisor handled error conditions when reading guest memory during certain guest-originated operations, such as port or memory mapped I/O writes. A privileged user in a fully-virtualized guest could use this flaw to leak hypervisor stack...

MGASA-2013-0346 Updated kernel-vserver package fixes security vulnerabilites.

This kernel-vserver update provides the upstream 3.4.69 kernel and fixes the following security issues: The ext4orphandel function in fs/ext4/namei.c in the Linux kernel before 3.7.3 does not properly handle orphan-list entries for non-journal filesystems, which allows physically proximate...

MGASA-2013-0345 Updated kernel-rt package fixes security vulnerabilites.

This kernel-rt update provides the upstream 3.4.69 kernel and fixes the following security issues: The ext4orphandel function in fs/ext4/namei.c in the Linux kernel before 3.7.3 does not properly handle orphan-list entries for non-journal filesystems, which allows physically proximate attackers t...