SUSE-SU-2016:1032-1 Security update for Linux Kernel Live Patch 1 for SP 1

This update for the Linux Kernel 3.12.51-60.20.1 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 kerne...

SUSE-SU-2016:1034-1 Security update for Linux Kernel Live Patch 11

This update for the Linux Kernel 3.12.51-52.39.1 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 kerne...

SUSE-SU-2016:0336-1 Security update for kernel live patch 9

This kernel live patch for Linux Kernel 3.12.51-52.31.1 fixes a security issue: Security issues fixed: - CVE-2015-8539: A negatively instantiated user key could have been used by a local user to leverage privileges bnc958601...

openSUSE Security Update : the Linux Kernel (openSUSE-2015-879)

The Linux Kernel was updated to 4.1.13 and fixes the following issues : Security issues fixed : - CVE-2015-8104: The KVM subsystem in the Linux kernel allowed guest OS users to cause a denial of service host OS panic or hang by triggering many DB aka Debug exceptions, related to svm.c. -...

[SECURITY] [DLA 325-1] linux-2.6 security update

Package : linux-2.6 Version : 2.6.32-48squeeze16 CVE ID : CVE-2015-2925 CVE-2015-5257 CVE-2015-7613 This update fixes the CVEs described below. CVE-2015-2925 Jann Horn discovered that when a subdirectory of a filesystem was bind-mounted into a chroot or mount namespace, a user that should be...

Security update for the Linux Kernel (important)

The Linux kernel was updated to fix various bugs and security issues. Following security issues were fixed: - CVE-2014-8173: A NULL pointer dereference flaw was found in the way the Linux kernels madvise MADVWILLNEED functionality handled page table locking. A local, unprivileged user could have...

Privacy-focused Tails 1.1.2 Operating System Released

Tails, a Linux-based highly secure Operating System specially designed and optimized to preserve users' anonymity and privacy, has launched its new release, Tails version 1.1.2. Tails, also known as 'Amnesiac Incognito Live System', is a free security-focused Debian-based Linux distribution, whic...

SUSE-SU-2015:1376-1 Security update for Linux kernel

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 Service Pack 3 kernel has been updated to fix various bugs and security issues. The following security bugs have been fixed: CVE-2014-1739: The mediadeviceenumentities function in drivers/media/media-device.c in the Linux kernel before 3.14.6 does not initialize a...

openSUSE Security Update : kernel (openSUSE-SU-2013:0395-1)

The Linux kernel was updated to 3.4.33 and to fix a local root privilege escalation and various other security and non-security bugs. CVE-2013-1763: A out of bounds access in sockdiag could be used by local attackers to execute code in kernel context and so become root. CVE-2013-0160: The atime o...

SUSE-SU-2015:0481-1 Security update for Linux kernel

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 Service Pack 2 kernel was updated to fix a regression introduced by the previous update: scsidhalua: Incorrect reference counting in the SCSI ALUA initialization code lead to system crashes on boot bnc858831. As the update introducing the regression was marked securit...

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...

3.0.80 kernel update (important)

The kernel was updated to Linux kernel 3.0.80, fixing various bugs and security issues. Following security issues were fixed: CVE-2013-0160: Timing side channel on attacks were possible on /dev/ptmx that could allow local attackers to predict keypresses like e.g. passwords. This has been fixed...

Ubuntu Update for linux USN-1193-1

Ubuntu Update for Linux kernel vulnerabilities USN-1193-1 OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: gbubuntuUSN11931.nasl 7964 2017-12-01 07:32:11Z santu $ Ubuntu Update for linux USN-1193-1 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2011 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This...

SuSE 11.1 Security Update : Linux kernel (SAT Patch Numbers 2568 / 2569 / 2570)

This SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 Service Pack 1 kernel update brings the Linux kernel to version 2.6.32.13. It also contains a fix for the following security issue : - If SCTP is enabled, the sctpprocessunkparam function in net/sctp/smmakechunk.c allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service...

SLES10: Security update for Linux kernel

The remote host is missing updates to packages that affect the security of your system. One or more of the following packages are affected: kernel-bigsmp kernel-debug kernel-default kernel-kdump kernel-smp kernel-source kernel-syms kernel-vmi kernel-vmipae kernel-xen kernel-xenpae More details ma...

SUSE: Security Advisory for kernel (SUSE-SA:2009:045)

The remote host is missing updates announced in advisory SUSE-SA:2009:045. Copyright C 2009 E-Soft Inc. 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-or-later This program is free software...

Fedora 8 : kernel-2.6.24.7-92.fc8 (2008-3873)

Update to Linux kernel verion 2.6.24.6, 2.6.24.7: http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.24.6 http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.24.7 Security fixes: CVE-2008-1375 2.6.24.6 - dnotify/close race CVE-2008-1675 2.6.24.6 - tehuti driver permissions and regist...

Fedora 7 : kernel-2.6.23.15-80.fc7 (2008-1422)

Update to Linux kernel 2.6.23.15: http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.23.15 Fix vmsplice local root vulnerability: CVE-2008-0009: Fixed by update to 2.6.23.15. CVE-2008-0010: Fixed by update to 2.6.23.15. CVE-2008-0600: Extra fix from upstream applied. Fix memory leak in...

Fedora 8 : kernel-2.6.23.15-137.fc8 (2008-1423)

Update to Linux kernel 2.6.23.15: http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.23.15 Fix vmsplice local root vulnerability: CVE-2008-0009: Fixed by update to 2.6.23.15. CVE-2008-0010: Fixed by update to 2.6.23.15. CVE-2008-0600: Extra fix from upstream applied. Fix memory leak in...

SuSE 10 Security Update : Linux kernel (ZYPP Patch Number 2399)

This kernel update fixes the following security problems : - A bug within the UDF filesystem that caused machine hangs when truncating files on the filesystem was fixed. 186226. CVE-2006-4145 - A potential crash when receiving IPX packets was fixed. This problem is thought not to be exploitable...