Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: kernel-rt security, bug fix, and enhancement update

Updated kernel-rt packages that fix multiple security issues, several bugs, and add various enhancements are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having Important security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base scores, whic...

kernel: denial of service due to memory leak in add_key()

It was found that the Linux kernel's keyring implementation would leak memory when adding a key to a keyring via the addkey function. A local attacker could use this flaw to exhaust all available memory on the system...

Amazon Linux: Security Advisory (ALAS-2015-574)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2015 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

DEBIAN-CVE-2015-1333

Memory leak in the keylinkend function in security/keys/keyring.c in the Linux kernel before 4.1.4 allows local users to cause a denial of service memory consumption via many addkey system calls that refer to existing keys...

CVE-2015-1333

Memory leak in the keylinkend function in security/keys/keyring.c in the Linux kernel before 4.1.4 allows local users to cause a denial of service memory consumption via many addkey system calls that refer to existing keys...

ceph-deploy admin command copies keyring file to /etc/ceph which is world readable

It was discovered that ceph-deploy, a utility for deploying Red Hat Ceph Storage, would create the keyring file with world readable permissions, which could possibly allow a local user to obtain authentication credentials from the keyring file...

ceph-deploy: keyring permissions are world readable in ~ceph

It was discovered that ceph-deploy, a utility for deploying Red Hat Ceph Storage, would create the keyring file with world readable permissions, which could possibly allow a local user to obtain authentication credentials from the keyring file...

Debian: Security Advisory (DSA-3329-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the Debian SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2015 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

ceph-deploy admin command copies keyring file to /etc/ceph which is world readable

It was discovered that ceph-deploy, a utility for deploying Red Hat Ceph Storage, would create the keyring file with world readable permissions, which could possibly allow a local user to obtain authentication credentials from the keyring file...

ceph-deploy: keyring permissions are world readable in ~ceph

It was discovered that ceph-deploy, a utility for deploying Red Hat Ceph Storage, would create the keyring file with world readable permissions, which could possibly allow a local user to obtain authentication credentials from the keyring file...

Linux kernel 'security/keys/keyring.c' local denial of service vulnerability

The Linux kernel is the kernel used by the operating system Linux, released by the Linux Foundation in the United States. A local denial of service vulnerability exists in Linux kernel. A local attacker could exploit this vulnerability to consume available memory and cause a denial of service...

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : Linux kernel vulnerabilities (USN-2688-1)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-2688-1 advisory. Andy Lutomirski discovered a flaw in the Linux kernel's handling of nested NMIs non-maskable interrupts. An unprivileged local user could exploit this fl...

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : Linux kernel (Utopic HWE) vulnerabilities (USN-2689-1)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-2689-1 advisory. Andy Lutomirski discovered a flaw in the Linux kernel's handling of nested NMIs non-maskable interrupts. An unprivileged local user could exploit this fl...

Ubuntu 15.04 : linux vulnerabilities (USN-2691-1)

Andy Lutomirski discovered a flaw in the Linux kernel's handling of nested NMIs non-maskable interrupts. An unprivileged local user could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service system crash or potentially escalate their privileges. CVE-2015-3290 Colin King discovered a flaw in the addkey...

Amazon Linux AMI : gnupg2 (ALAS-2015-574)

It was reported that gnupg2 keyring DB code did not reject packets which don't belong into a keyring, which may lead to invalid read of sizeof int. C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from Amazon Linux AMI Security Advisory...

USN-2691-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Andy Lutomirski discovered a flaw in the Linux kernel's handling of nested NMIs non-maskable interrupts. An unprivileged local user could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service system crash or potentially escalate their privileges. CVE-2015-3290 Colin King discovered a flaw in the addkey...

USN-2690-1 linux-lts-vivid vulnerabilities

Andy Lutomirski discovered a flaw in the Linux kernel's handling of nested NMIs non-maskable interrupts. An unprivileged local user could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service system crash or potentially escalate their privileges. CVE-2015-3290 Colin King discovered a flaw in the addkey...

USN-2689-1 linux-lts-utopic vulnerabilities

Andy Lutomirski discovered a flaw in the Linux kernel's handling of nested NMIs non-maskable interrupts. An unprivileged local user could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service system crash or potentially escalate their privileges. CVE-2015-3290 Colin King discovered a flaw in the addkey...

USN-2689-1: Linux kernel (Utopic HWE) vulnerabilities

Andy Lutomirski discovered a flaw in the Linux kernel's handling of nested NMIs non-maskable interrupts. An unprivileged local user could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service system crash or potentially escalate their privileges. CVE-2015-3290 Colin King discovered a flaw in the addkey...

USN-2688-1 linux vulnerabilities

Andy Lutomirski discovered a flaw in the Linux kernel's handling of nested NMIs non-maskable interrupts. An unprivileged local user could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service system crash or potentially escalate their privileges. CVE-2015-3290 Colin King discovered a flaw in the addkey...