MGASA-2013-0344 Updated kernel-tmb package fixes security vulnerabilites.

This kernel-tmb 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 ...

Updated kernel-linus package fixes security vulnerabilites.

This kernel-linus 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 attacker...

MGASA-2013-0342 Updated kernel package fixes security vulnerabilites.

This kernel 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 to...

Updated kernel package fixes security vulnerabilites.

This kernel 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 to...

SuSE 11.2 Security Update : Linux Kernel (SAT Patch Numbers 8509 / 8516 / 8518)

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 Service Pack 2 kernel was updated to version 3.0.101 and also includes various other bug and security fixes. The following features have been added : - Drivers: hv: Support handling multiple VMBUS versions FATE314665. - Drivers: hv: Save and export negotiated vmbus...

[ MDVSA-2013:265 ] kernel

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Mandriva Linux Security Advisory MDVSA-2013:265 http://www.mandriva.com/en/support/security/ Package : kernel Date : November 10, 2013 Affected: Business Server 1.0 Problem Description: Multiple vulnerabilities has been found and corrected in the Linu...

[SECURITY] Fedora 20 Update: kernel-3.11.7-300.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 (20131022)

A flaw was found in the way the Linux kernel handled the creation of temporary IPv6 addresses. If the IPv6 privacy extension was enabled /proc/sys/net/ipv6/conf/eth0/usetempaddr is set to '2', an attacker on the local network could disable IPv6 temporary address generation, leading to a potential...

Scientific Linux Security Update : Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 kernel update on SL5.x i386/x86_64 (20130930)

This update fixes the following security issue : It was found that a deadlock could occur in the Out of Memory OOM killer. A process could trigger this deadlock by consuming a large amount of memory, and then causing requestmodule to be called. A local, unprivileged user could use this flaw to...

[SECURITY] Fedora 19 Update: kernel-3.11.4-201.fc19

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...

Oracle linux 5 kernel update

kernel 2.6.18-371 - net be2net: enable polling prior enabling interrupts globally Ivan Vecera 987539 2.6.18-370 - net be2net: Fix to avoid hardware workaround when not needed Ivan Vecera 995961 - kernel signals: stop info leak via tkill and tgkill syscalls Oleg Nesterov 970875 CVE-2013-2141...

Oracle Linux 5 kernel update

kernel 2.6.18-371.0.0.0.1 - i386: fix MTRR code Zhenzhong Duan orabug 15862649 - oprofile x86, mm: Add getuserpagesfast orabug 14277030 - oprofile export getuserpagesfast function orabug 14277030 - oprofile oprofile, x86: Fix nmi-unsafe callgraph support orabug 14277030 - oprofile oprofile: use...

Moderate: Red Hat Security Advisory: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 kernel update

Updated kernel packages that fix one security issue, several bugs, and add various enhancements are now available as part of the ongoing support and maintenance of Red Hat Enterprise Linux version 5. This is the tenth regular update. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as...

SuSE 11.2 Security Update : Linux kernel (SAT Patch Numbers 8263 / 8265 / 8273)

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 Service Pack 2 kernel has been updated to version 3.0.93 and includes various bug and security fixes. The following security bugs have been fixed : - The filleventmetadata function in fs/notify/fanotify/fanotifyuser.c in the Linux kernel did not initialize a certain...

SuSE 11.3 Security Update : Linux kernel (SAT Patch Numbers 8269 / 8270 / 8283)

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 Service Pack 3 kernel has been updated to version 3.0.93 and to fix various bugs and security issues. The following features have been added : - NFS: Now supports a 'nosharetransport' option bnc807502, bnc828192, FATE315593. - ALSA: virtuoso: Xonar DSX support was add...

[SECURITY] Fedora 18 Update: kernel-3.10.11-100.fc18

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...

Amazon Linux AMI : kernel (ALAS-2012-122)

The Netlink implementation in the Linux kernel before 3.2.30 does not properly handle messages that lack SCMCREDENTIALS data, which might allow local users to spoof Netlink communication via a crafted message, as demonstrated by a message to 1 Avahi or 2 NetworkManager. C Tenable Network Security...

Amazon Linux AMI : kernel (ALAS-2012-78)

The rioioctl function in drivers/net/ethernet/dlink/dl2k.c in the Linux kernel before 3.3.7 does not restrict access to the SIOCSMIIREG command, which allows local users to write data to an Ethernet adapter via an ioctl call. C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package check...

Amazon Linux AMI : kernel (ALAS-2012-55)

A buffer overflow flaw was found in the way the Linux kernel's XFS file system implementation handled links with overly long path names. A local, unprivileged user could use this flaw to cause a denial of service or escalate their privileges by mounting a specially crafted disk. CVE-2011-4077 ,...

CentOS Update for kernel CESA-2013:1173 centos6

Check for the Version of kernel OpenVAS Vulnerability Test CentOS Update for kernel CESA-2013:1173 centos6 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2013 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under th...