Ubuntu 16.04 LTS : Linux kernel vulnerabilities (USN-3378-1)

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-3378-1 advisory. Fan Wu and Shixiong Zhao discovered a race condition between inotify events and vfs rename operations in the Linux kernel. An unprivileged local attacker...

USN-3360-2: Linux kernel (Trusty HWE) vulnerabilities

USN-3360-1 fixed vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel for Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. This update provides the corresponding updates for the Linux Hardware Enablement HWE kernel from Ubuntu 14.04 LTS for Ubuntu 12.04 ESM. It was discovered that the Linux kernel did not properly initialize a Wake- on-Lan dat...

EulerOS 2.0 SP2 : kernel (EulerOS-SA-2017-1123)

According to the versions of the kernel packages installed, the EulerOS installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerabilities : - The regulatorenagpiofree function in drivers/regulator/core.c in the Linux kernel allows local users to gain privileges or cause a denial of...

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : Linux kernel vulnerabilities (USN-3343-1)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-3343-1 advisory. USN 3335-1 fixed a vulnerability in the Linux kernel. However, that fix introduced regressions for some Java applications. This update addresses the issu...

USN-3343-1 linux vulnerabilities

USN 3335-1 fixed a vulnerability in the Linux kernel. However, that fix introduced regressions for some Java applications. This update addresses the issue. We apologize for the inconvenience. It was discovered that a use-after-free vulnerability in the core voltage regulator driver of the Linux...

USN-3312-1 linux, linux-aws, linux-gke, linux-raspi2, linux-snapdragon vulnerabilities

It was discovered that the netfilter netlink implementation in the Linux kernel did not properly validate batch messages. A local attacker with the CAPNETADMIN capability could use this to expose sensitive information or cause a denial of service. CVE-2016-7917 Qian Zhang discovered a heap-based...

Updated kernel-linus fixes security vulnerabilities

This kernel-linus update is based on upstream 4.4.50 and fixes at least the following security issues: The cgroup offline implementation in the Linux kernel through 4.8.11 mishandles certain drain operations, which allows local users to cause a denial of service system hang by leveraging access t...

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : Linux kernel (Xenial HWE) vulnerabilities (USN-3208-2)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-3208-2 advisory. USN-3208-1 fixed vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel for Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. This update provides the corresponding updates for the Linux Hardware Enableme...

SUSE-SU-2017:0494-1 Security update for the Linux Kernel

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 SP3 LTSS kernel was updated to receive various security and bugfixes. The following security bugs were fixed: - CVE-2015-8970: crypto/algifskcipher.c in the Linux kernel did not verify that a setkey operation has been performed on an AFALG socket before an accept syst...

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS : Linux kernel vulnerabilities (USN-3169-1)

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-3169-1 advisory. Dmitry Vyukov discovered that the KVM implementation in the Linux kernel did not properly initialize the Code Segment CS in certain error cases. A local...

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : Linux kernel vulnerabilities (USN-3127-1)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-3127-1 advisory. It was discovered that the compression handling code in the Advanced Linux Sound Architecture ALSA subsystem in the Linux kernel did not properly check f...

MGASA-2016-0364 Updated kernel-tmb package fixes security issues

This update is based on the upstream 4.4.26 kernel and fixes at least these security issues: sound/core/timer.c in the Linux kernel through 4.6 does not initialize certain r1 data structures, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel stack memory via crafted use of the...

USN-3084-1 linux vulnerabilities

Pengfei Wang discovered a race condition in the audit subsystem in the Linux kernel. A local attacker could use this to corrupt audit logs or disrupt system-call auditing. CVE-2016-6136 It was discovered that the powerpc and powerpc64 hypervisor-mode KVM implementation in the Linux kernel for did...

MGASA-2016-0283 Updated kernel-tmb packages fix security vulnerabilities

This update is based on the upstream 4.4.16 kernel and fixes at least theese security issues: nfsd in the Linux kernel through 4.6.3 allows local users to bypass intended file-permission restrictions by setting a POSIX ACL, related to nfs2acl.c, nfs3acl.c, and nfs4acl.c. CVE-2016-1237. The...

Vulnerabilities of the Debian GNU/Linux operating system that allow a remote attacker to compromise the accessibility of protected information

The multiple vulnerabilities in the linux-image-2.6.18-6-alpha-generic operating system package from Debian GNU/Linux may lead to a violation of the accessibility of protected information. These vulnerabilities can be exploited remotely...

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : Linux kernel (Wily HWE) vulnerabilities (USN-3017-3)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-3017-3 advisory. USN-3017-1 fixed vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel for Ubuntu 15.10. This update provides the corresponding updates for the Linux Hardware Enablement H...

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : Linux kernel vulnerabilities (USN-3018-1)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-3018-1 advisory. Jesse Hertz and Tim Newsham discovered that the Linux netfilter implementation did not correctly perform validation when handling 32 bit compatibility...

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS : Linux kernel (Raspberry Pi 2) vulnerabilities (USN-3016-2)

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-3016-2 advisory. Jesse Hertz and Tim Newsham discovered that the Linux netfilter implementation did not correctly perform validation when handling 32 bit compatibility...

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : Linux kernel (Xenial HWE) vulnerabilities (USN-3005-1)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-3005-1 advisory. Justin Yackoski discovered that the Atheros L2 Ethernet Driver in the Linux kernel incorrectly enables scatter/gather I/O. A remote attacker could use th...

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : Linux kernel vulnerabilities (USN-2989-1)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-2989-1 advisory. Justin Yackoski discovered that the Atheros L2 Ethernet Driver in the Linux kernel incorrectly enables scatter/gather I/O. A remote attacker could use th...