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...

Updated kernel-linus packages fixes security vulnerabilities

This kernel-linus update is based on upstream 4.4.55 and fixes at least the following security issues: Race condition in drivers/tty/nhdlc.c in the Linux kernel through 4.10.1 allows local users to gain privileges or cause a denial of service double free by setting the HDLC line discipline...

Updated kernel-linus packages fix security vulnerabilities

This update is based on upstream 4.4.39 and fixes at least the following security issues: Due to lack of size checking on ICMP header length, it is possible to cause out-of-bounds read on stack CVE-2016-8399 The TCP stack in the Linux kernel before 4.8.10 mishandles skb truncation, which allows...

DigitalSellz: Public profile is vulnerable to stored XSS / Facebook Token can be stolen

@robinlinus bypass our XSS protection system. This Vulnerability has been fixed...

Happy Birthday! LINUX Turns 25 Years Old Today

Linux has turned 25! Dear all, today is August 25, 2016, and it is time for the celebration, as it's the 25th Anniversary of the Linux project, announced by its creator, Finnish programmer Linus Torvalds, on August 25, 1991. Who can forget one of the most famous messages in the computing world...

Mageia: Security Advisory (MGASA-2016-0031)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2016 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...

MGASA-2016-0031 Updated kernel-linus packages fix security vulnerability

Perception Point Research Team found a reference leak in keyring in joinsessionkeyring that can be exploited to successfully escalate privileges from a local user to root CVE-2016-0728...

Updated kernel-linus packages fix security vulnerabilities

This kernel-linus update is based on upstream 4.1.15 longterm kernel and fixes the following security issues: The virtnetprobe function in drivers/net/virtionet.c in the Linux kernel before 4.2 attempts to support a FRAGLIST feature without proper memory allocation, which allows guest OS users to...

Mageia: Security Advisory (MGASA-2016-0014)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2016 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...

Oracle Linux 6 / 7 : Unbreakable Enterprise kernel (ELSA-2015-3101)

The remote Oracle Linux 6 / 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2015-3101 advisory. - ipc/sem.c: fully initialize semarray before making it visible Manfred Spraul Orabug: 22277382 CVE-2015-7613 - ipc: fix msg newqueue add Guru...

Mageia: Security Advisory (MGASA-2015-0439)

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...

Mageia: Security Advisory (MGASA-2015-0390)

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...

Updated kernel-linus package provides 4.1 longterm and fixes security issues

This kernel-linus update provides an upgrade to the upstream 4.1 longterm kernel series, currently based on 4.1.8 and resolves at least the following security issues: It was found that the Linux kernel's keyring implementation would leak memory when adding a key to a keyring via the addkey...

Updated kernel-linus packages fix security vulnerabilities and bugs

Updated kernel-linus fixes security, critical data corruption and pdata loss issues This kernel-linus update is based on upstream -longterm 3.14.43 and fixes a security issue, and critical data corruption and data loss issues: drivers/vhost/scsi.c: potential memory corruption CVE-2015-4036 ext4...

Updated kernel-linus packages fix security vulnerabilities

This kernel-linus update is based on upstream -longterm 3.14.32 and fixes the following security issues: The microcode on AMD 16h 00h through 0Fh processors does not properly handle the interaction between locked instructions and write-combined memory types, which allows local users to cause a...

Updated kernel-linus packages fix security vulnerabilities

This kernel-linus update is based on upstream -longterm 3.10.58 and fixes the following security issues: The kvmiommumappages function in virt/kvm/iommu.c in the Linux kernel through 3.16.1 miscalculates the number of pages during the handling of a mapping failure, which allows guest OS users to ...

Updated kernel-linus packages fix security vulnerabilities

This kernel-linus update is based on upstream -longterm 3.14.23 and fixes the following security issues: The kvmiommumappages function in virt/kvm/iommu.c in the Linux kernel through 3.16.1 miscalculates the number of pages during the handling of a mapping failure, which allows guest OS users to ...

MGASA-2014-0330 Updated kernel-linus package fixes security vulnerabilities

Updated kernel-linus provides upstream 3.10.51 kernel and fixes the following security issues: Array index error in the aioreadeventsring function in fs/aio.c in the Linux kernel through 3.15.1 allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel memory via a large head value...

Updated kernel-linus package fixes security vulnerabilities

Updated kernel-linus provides upstream 3.12.26 kernel and fixes the following security issues: Array index error in the aioreadeventsring function in fs/aio.c in the Linux kernel through 3.15.1 allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel memory via a large head value...