Linus Torvalds Apologizes For His Rude Behavior—Takes Time Off

What just happened would definitely gonna surprise you. Linus Torvalds—father of the Linux open-source operating system—finally admitted his behavior towards other developers in the Linux community was hurting people and Linux. In a surprising move this weekend, Torvalds apologized for insulting...

MGASA-2018-0375 Updated kernel-linus packages fix security vulnerabilities

This kernel-linus update is based on the upstream 4.14.69 and adds additional fixes for the L1TF and Spectre security issues. Other fixes in this update: all SPIINTELSPI config options have been disable to prevent a potential bios corrupting bug mga23560 For other changes in this update, see the...

Updated kernel-linus packages fix security vulnerabilities

This kernel-linus update is based on the upstream 4.14.65 and adds fixes and mitigations for the now publically known security issue affecting Intel processors called L1 Terminal Fault L1TF: Systems with microprocessors utilizing speculative execution and Intel Software Guard Extensions Intel SGX...

Updated kernel-linus packages fix security vulnerabilities

This kernel-linus update is based on the upstream 4.14.62 and fixes at least the following security issues: kernel KVM before versions kernel 4.16, kernel 4.16-rc7, kernel 4.17-rc1, kernel 4.17-rc2 and kernel 4.17-rc3 is vulnerable to a flaw in the way the Linux kernel's KVM hypervisor handled...

Updated kernel-linus packages fix security vulnerabilities

This kernel-linus update is based on the upstream 4.14.44 and fixes at least the following security issues: The netfilter subsystem in the Linux kernel through 4.15.7 mishandles the case of a rule blob that contains a jump but lacks a user-defined chain, which allows local users to cause a denial...

Unbreakable Enterprise kernel security update

2.6.39-400.298.6 - perf/hwbp: Simplify the perf-hwbp code, fix documentation Linus Torvalds Orabug: 27947612 CVE-2018-100199 2.6.39-400.298.5 - xen-netfront: fix rx stall when reqprodpvt goes back to more than zero again Dongli Zhang Orabug: 25053376 - x86/IBRS: Remove support for IBRSENABLEDUSER...

Oracle Linux 6 / 7 : Unbreakable Enterprise kernel (ELSA-2018-4025)

The remote Oracle Linux 6 / 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2018-4025 advisory. - dccp: CVE-2017-8824: use-after-free in DCCP code Mohamed Ghannam Orabug: 27290300 CVE-2017-8824 - ALSA: pcm: prevent UAF in sndpcminfo Robb Glass...

Intel Halts Spectre/Meltdown Patching for Broadwell and Haswell Systems

Intel is advising OEMs and partners to halt patching for the Spectre and Meltdown vulnerabilities amid numerous reports the updates are causing reboot issues on systems running the Broadwell and Haswell microprocessors. “We recommend that OEMs, cloud service providers, system manufacturers,...

Updated kernel-linus packages fix security vulnerabilities

This kernel-linus update provided the upstream 4.14.13 and fixes several security issues. The most important fix in this update is for the security issue named "Meltdown" that is fixed in theese kernels by enabling kernel Page Table Isolation KTPI. Note that according to AMD, this issue does not...

Updated kernel-linus packages fix security vulnerabilities

This kernel-linus update provides the upstream 4.4.111 and fixes several security issues. The most important fix in this update is for the security issue named "Meltdown" that is fixed in theese kernels by enabling kernel Page Table Isolation KTPI. Note that according to AMD, this issue does not...

Updated kernel-linus packages fix security vulnerabilities

This kernel-linus update is based on upstream 4.4.105 and fixes at least the following security issues: A security flaw was discovered in nl80211setrekeydata function in the Linux kernel since v3.1-rc1 through v4.13. This function does not check whether the required attributes are present in a...

Updated kernel-linus packages fix security vulnerabilities

This kernel-linus update is based on upstream 4.4.92 and fixes at least the following security issues: A security flaw was discovered in nl80211setrekeydata function in the Linux kernel since v3.1-rc1 through v4.13. This function does not check whether the required attributes are present in a...

Updated kernel-linus packages fix security vulnerabilities

This kernel-linus update is based on upstream 4.9.56 and fixes at least the following security issues: A flaw was found in the way the Linux KVM module processed the trap flagTF bit in EFLAGS during emulation of the syscall instruction, which leads to a debug exceptionDB being raised in the guest...

Updated kernel-linus packages fixes security and other bugs

This kernel-linus update is based on upstream 4.4.82 and fixes at least the following security issues: The curseg-segno call in f2fs driver can be malformed so that it will have a value that triggers an out of boundary write that could cause memory corruption on the affected devices, leading to...

Updated kernel-linus packages fixes security and other bugs

This kernel-linus update is based on upstream 4.9.43 and fixes at least the following security issues: The curseg-segno call in f2fs driver can be malformed so that it will have a value that triggers an out of boundary write that could cause memory corruption on the affected devices, leading to...

Updated kernel-linus packages fixes security and other bugs

This kernel-linus update is based on upstream 4.4.79 and fixes at least the following security issues: Linux kernel built with the VirtIO GPU driverCONFIGDRMVIRTIOGPU support is vulnerable to a memory leakage issue. It could occur while creating a virtio gpu object in virtiogpuobjectcreate. A...

Updated kernel-linus packages fixes security and other bugs

This kernel-linus update is based on upstream 4.9.40 and fixes at least the following security issues: Linux kernel built with the VirtIO GPU driverCONFIGDRMVIRTIOGPU support is vulnerable to a memory leakage issue. It could occur while creating a virtio gpu object in virtiogpuobjectcreate. A...

Updated kernel-linus packages fixes critical security vulnerabilities

This kernel-linus update is based on upstream 4.4.74 and fixes at least the following security issues: The ipxitfioctl function in net/ipx/afipx.c in the Linux kernel through 4.11.1 mishandles reference counts, which allows local users to cause a denial of service use-after-free or possibly have...

MGASA-2017-0188 Updated kernel-linus packages fixes critical security vulnerabilities

This kernel-linus update is based on upstream 4.4.74 and fixes at least the following security issues: The ipxitfioctl function in net/ipx/afipx.c in the Linux kernel through 4.11.1 mishandles reference counts, which allows local users to cause a denial of service use-after-free or possibly have...

MGASA-2017-0099 Updated kernel-linus packages fixes security vulnerability

This kernel-linus update is based on upstream 4.4.59 and fixes at least the following security issue: The xfrmreplayverifylen function in net/xfrm/xfrmuser.c in the Linux kernel through 4.10.6 does not validate certain size data after an XFRMMSGNEWAE update, which allows local users to obtain roo...