SUSE-SU-2016:2631-1 Security update for Linux Kernel Live Patch 0 for SLE 12 SP1

This update for the Linux Kernel 3.12.49-11 fixes several issues. The following security bugs were fixed: - CVE-2016-5195: A local privilege escalation using MAPPRIVATE was fixed, which is reportedly exploited in the wild bsc1004419. - CVE-2016-8666: The IP stack in the Linux kernel allowed remot...

SUSE-SU-2016:2175-1 Security update for Linux Kernel Live Patch 6 for SLE 12 SP1

This update for the Linux Kernel 3.12.59-6045 fixes several issues. The following security bugs were fixed: - CVE-2016-6480: Race condition in the ioctlsendfib function in drivers/scsi/aacraid/commctrl.c in the Linux kernel allowed local users to cause a denial of service out-of-bounds access or...

SUSE-SU-2016:2000-1 Security update for Linux Kernel Live Patch 4 for SLE 12 SP1

This update for the Linux Kernel 3.12.57-6035 fixes the several issues. These security issues were fixed: - CVE-2016-4470: The keyrejectandlink function in security/keys/key.c in the Linux kernel did not ensure that a certain data structure is initialized, which allowed local users to cause a...

SUSE-SU-2016:2005-1 Security update for Linux Kernel Live Patch 8 for SLE 12

This update for the Linux Kernel 3.12.48-5227 fixes several issues. The following security bugs were fixed: - CVE-2016-4470: The keyrejectandlink function in security/keys/key.c in the Linux kernel did not ensure that a certain data structure is initialized, which allowed local users to cause a...

SUSE-SU-2016:1961-1 Security update for Linux Kernel Live Patch 0 for SLE 12 SP1

This update for the Linux Kernel 3.12.49-11.1 fixes the several issues. These security issues were fixed: - CVE-2016-4470: The keyrejectandlink function in security/keys/key.c in the Linux kernel did not ensure that a certain data structure is initialized, which allowed local users to cause a...

SUSE-SU-2016:1764-1 Security update for the Linux Kernel

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 SP1 Realtime kernel was updated to 3.12.58 to receive various security and bugfixes. The following security bugs were fixed: - CVE-2015-7566: The treoattach function in drivers/usb/serial/visor.c in the Linux kernel allowed physically proximate attackers to cause a...

CVE-2016-3134

The netfilter subsystem in the Linux kernel through 4.5.2 does not validate certain offset fields, which allows local users to gain privileges or cause a denial of service heap memory corruption via an IPTSOSETREPLACE setsockopt call...

CVE-2016-2550

The Linux kernel before 4.5 allows local users to bypass file-descriptor limits and cause a denial of service memory consumption by leveraging incorrect tracking of descriptor ownership and sending each descriptor over a UNIX socket before closing it. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an...

CVE-2015-8844

The signal implementation in the Linux kernel before 4.3.5 on powerpc platforms does not check for an MSR with both the S and T bits set, which allows local users to cause a denial of service TM Bad Thing exception and panic via a crafted application...

SUSE-SU-2016:1031-1 Security update for Linux Kernel Live Patch 0 for SP 1

This update for the Linux Kernel 3.12.49-11.1 fixes the following issues: - CVE-2016-2384: A malicious USB device could cause a kernel crash in the alsa usb-audio driver. bsc967773 - CVE-2015-8812: A flaw was found in the CXGB3 kernel driver when the network was considered congested. The kernel...

SUSE-SU-2016:0755-1 Security update for kernel live patch 1

This kernel live patch for Linux Kernel 3.12.51-60.20.2 fixes three security issues: Fixes: - CVE-2016-0728: A reference leak in keyring handling with joinsessionkeyring could lead to local attackers gain root privileges. bsc962078. - CVE-2015-8660: The ovlsetattr function in fs/overlayfs/inode.c...

SUSE-SU-2016:0751-1 Security update for kernel live patch 0

This kernel live patch for Linux Kernel 3.12.49-11.1 fixes three security issues: Fixes: - CVE-2016-0728: A reference leak in keyring handling with joinsessionkeyring could lead to local attackers gain root privileges. bsc962078. - CVE-2015-8660: The ovlsetattr function in fs/overlayfs/inode.c in...

SUSE-SU-2016:0585-1 Security update for the Linux Kernel

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 SP1 kernel was updated to 3.12.53 to receive various security and bugfixes. The following security bugs were fixed: - CVE-2013-7446: Use-after-free vulnerability in net/unix/afunix.c in the Linux kernel allowed local users to bypass intended AFUNIX socket permissions ...

SUSE-SU-2016:0386-1 Security update for kernel live patch 6

This kernel live patch for Linux Kernel 3.12.44-52.10.1 fixes security issues and bugs: Security issues fixed: - CVE-2015-8539: A negatively instantiated user key could have been used by a local user to leverage privileges bnc958601. - CVE-2015-6937: A NULL pointer dereference flaw was found in t...

CVE-2015-7550

The keyctlreadkey function in security/keys/keyctl.c in the Linux kernel before 4.3.4 does not properly use a semaphore, which allows local users to cause a denial of service NULL pointer dereference and system crash or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted application that leverag...

SUSE-SU-2015:1611-1 Security update for the Linux Kernel

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 SP3 kernel was updated to receive various security and bugfixes. Following security bugs were fixed: - CVE-2015-5707: An integer overflow in the SCSI generic driver could be potentially used by local attackers to crash the kernel or execute code bsc940338. -...

CVE-2015-4004

The OZWPAN driver in the Linux kernel through 4.0.5 relies on an untrusted length field during packet parsing, which allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information from kernel memory or cause a denial of service out-of-bounds read and system crash via a crafted packet...

CVE-2014-8133

arch/x86/kernel/tls.c in the Thread Local Storage TLS implementation in the Linux kernel through 3.18.1 allows local users to bypass the espfix protection mechanism, and consequently makes it easier for local users to bypass the ASLR protection mechanism, via a crafted application that makes a...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: kernel security and bug fix update

Updated kernel packages that fix multiple security issues and several bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having Important security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base scores, which give detailed severity...

CVE-2014-5207

fs/namespace.c in the Linux kernel through 3.16.1 does not properly restrict clearing MNTNODEV, MNTNOSUID, and MNTNOEXEC and changing MNTATIMEMASK during a remount of a bind mount, which allows local users to gain privileges, interfere with backups and auditing on systems that had atime enabled, ...