USN-2542-1: Linux kernel (OMAP4) vulnerabilities

The Linux kernel's splice system call did not correctly validate its parameters. A local, unprivileged user could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service system crash. CVE-2014-7822 A flaw was discovered in how Thread Local Storage TLS is handled by the task switching function in the Linux...

CVE-2014-8160

net/netfilter/nfconntrackprotogeneric.c in the Linux kernel before 3.18 generates incorrect conntrack entries during handling of certain iptables rule sets for the SCTP, DCCP, GRE, and UDP-Lite protocols, which allows remote attackers to bypass intended access restrictions via packets with...

USN-2516-2 linux vulnerability

USN-2516-1 fixed vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel. There was an unrelated regression in the use of the virtual counter CNTVCT on arm64 architectures. This update fixes the problem. We apologize for the inconvenience. Original advisory details: A flaw was discovered in the Kernel Virtual...

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : Linux kernel vulnerabilities (USN-2359-1)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-2359-1 advisory. Jack Morgenstein reported a flaw in the page handling of the KVM Kerenl Virtual Machine subsystem in the Linux kernel. A guest OS user could exploit this...

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : Linux kernel vulnerabilities (USN-2337-1)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-2337-1 advisory. A flaw was discovered in the Linux kernel virtual machine's kvm validation of interrupt requests irq. A guest OS user could exploit this flaw to cause a...

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : Linux kernel vulnerabilities (USN-2318-1)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-2318-1 advisory. Eric W. Biederman discovered a flaw with the mediation of mount flags in the Linux kernel's user namespace subsystem. An unprivileged user could exploit...

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS : linux-lts-quantal vulnerabilities (USN-2285-1)

Sasha Levin reported a flaw in the Linux kernel's point-to-point protocol PPP when used with the Layer Two Tunneling Protocol L2TP. A local user could exploit this flaw to gain administrative privileges. CVE-2014-4943 Michael S. Tsirkin discovered an information leak in the Linux kernel's...

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS : linux-lts-saucy vulnerabilities (USN-2287-1)

Sasha Levin reported a flaw in the Linux kernel's point-to-point protocol PPP when used with the Layer Two Tunneling Protocol L2TP. A local user could exploit this flaw to gain administrative privileges. CVE-2014-4943 Michael S. Tsirkin discovered an information leak in the Linux kernel's...

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : Linux kernel vulnerabilities (USN-2290-1)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-2290-1 advisory. Sasha Levin reported a flaw in the Linux kernel's point-to-point protocol PPP when used with the Layer Two Tunneling Protocol L2TP. A local user could...

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS : linux-lts-quantal vulnerabilities (USN-2068-1)

Dave Jones and Vince Weaver reported a flaw in the Linux kernel's per event subsystem that allows normal users to enable function tracing. An unprivileged local user could exploit this flaw to obtain potentially sensitive information from the kernel. CVE-2013-2930 Stephan Mueller reported an erro...

[ MDVSA-2013:291 ] kernel

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Mandriva Linux Security Advisory MDVSA-2013:291 http://www.mandriva.com/en/support/security/ Package : kernel Date : December 17, 2013 Affected: Business Server 1.0 Problem Description: Multiple vulnerabilities has been found and corrected in the Linu...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-2049-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2013 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...

[ MDVSA-2013:265 ] kernel

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Mandriva Linux Security Advisory MDVSA-2013:265 http://www.mandriva.com/en/support/security/ Package : kernel Date : November 10, 2013 Affected: Business Server 1.0 Problem Description: Multiple vulnerabilities has been found and corrected in the Linu...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : kernel (MDVSA-2013:176)

Multiple vulnerabilities has been found and corrected in the Linux kernel : The scmsetcred function in include/net/scm.h in the Linux kernel before 3.8.11 uses incorrect uid and gid values during credentials passing, which allows local users to gain privileges via a crafted application...

USN-1796-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Andrew Jones discovered a flaw with the xeniret function in Linux kernel's Xen virtualizeation. In the 32-bit Xen paravirt platform an unprivileged guest OS user could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service crash the system or gain guest OS privilege. CVE-2013-0228 Emese Revfy discovered...

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS : linux-lts-quantal vulnerabilities (USN-1768-1)

Andrew Cooper of Citrix reported a Xen stack corruption in the Linux kernel. An unprivileged user in a 32bit PVOPS guest can cause the guest kernel to crash, or operate erroneously. CVE-2013-0190 A failure to validate input was discovered in the Linux kernel's Xen netback network backend driver. ...

Ubuntu Update for linux-lts-backport-oneiric USN-1678-1

Ubuntu Update for Linux kernel vulnerabilities USN-1678-1 OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: gbubuntuUSN16781.nasl 7960 2017-12-01 06:58:16Z santu $ Ubuntu Update for linux-lts-backport-oneiric USN-1678-1 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2012 Greenbone Networks GmbH,...

Ubuntu Update for unity-firefox-extension USN-1665-1

Ubuntu Update for Linux kernel vulnerabilities USN-1665-1 OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: gbubuntuUSN16651.nasl 7960 2017-12-01 06:58:16Z santu $ Ubuntu Update for unity-firefox-extension USN-1665-1 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2012 Greenbone Networks GmbH,...

Ubuntu Update for linux-ec2 USN-1664-1

Ubuntu Update for Linux kernel vulnerabilities USN-1664-1 OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: gbubuntuUSN16641.nasl 7960 2017-12-01 06:58:16Z santu $ Ubuntu Update for linux-ec2 USN-1664-1 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2012 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net Th...

Ubuntu Update for linux USN-1660-1

Ubuntu Update for Linux kernel vulnerabilities USN-1660-1 OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: gbubuntuUSN16601.nasl 7960 2017-12-01 06:58:16Z santu $ Ubuntu Update for linux USN-1660-1 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2012 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This...