Important: kernel security, bug fix, and enhancement update

The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system. Security Fixes: kernel: use after free in eventpoll.c may lead to escalation of privilege CVE-2020-0466 kernel: SCSI target LIO write to any block on ILO backstore CVE-2020-28374 kernel: Use after free via PI...

openSUSE: Security Advisory for the (openSUSE-SU-2020:1379-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the Copyright C 2020 Greenbone Networks GmbH 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; you can...

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

An update for kernel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.7 Extended Update Support. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for...

Unbreakable Enterprise kernel security update

4.1.12-124.35.1 - ixgbe: protect TX timestamping from API misuse Manjunath Patil Orabug: 30275491 - block: init flush rq ref count to 1 Josef Bacik Orabug: 30360559 - block: fix null pointer dereference in blkmqrqtimedout Yufen Yu Orabug: 30360559 - blk-mq: Remove generation seqeunce Keith Busch...

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

An update for kernel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from th...

Moderate: Red Hat Security Advisory: kernel-alt security and bug fix update

An update for kernel-alt is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from...

OracleVM 3.4 : Unbreakable / etc (OVMSA-2019-0007) (Spectre)

The remote OracleVM system is missing necessary patches to address critical security updates : - x86/bugs: Fix the AMD SSBD usage of the SPECCTRL MSR Tom Lendacky Orabug: 28870524 CVE-2018-3639 - x86/bugs: Add AMD's SPECCTRL MSR usage Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk Orabug: 28870524 CVE-2018-3639 -...

OracleVM 3.4 : Unbreakable / etc (OVMSA-2018-0273)

The remote OracleVM system is missing necessary patches to address critical security updates : - hugetlbfs: fix kernel BUG at fs/hugetlbfs/inode.c:447! Mike Kravetz - scsi: libsas: fix memory leak in sassmpgetphyevents Jason Yan Orabug: 27927687 CVE-2018-7757 - KVM: vmx: shadow more fields that a...

kernel security and bug fix update

2.6.32-696.16.1.OL6 - Update genkey bug 25599697 2.6.32-696.16.1 - net packet: fix tpreserve race in packetsetring Stefano Brivio 1481941 1481943 CVE-2017-1000111 - net packet: fix overflow in check for tpframenr Stefano Brivio 1481941 1481943 CVE-2017-1000111 - net packet: fix overflow in check...

Virtuozzo 6 : kernel / kernel-abi-whitelists / kernel-debug / etc (VZLSA-2017-1372)

An update for kernel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the...

OracleVM 3.2 : Unbreakable / etc (OVMSA-2017-0121)

The remote OracleVM system is missing necessary patches to address critical security updates : - nfsd: check for oversized NFSv2/v3 arguments J. Bruce Fields Orabug: 26366024 CVE-2017-7645 - dm mpath: allow ioctls to trigger pg init Mikulas Patocka Orabug: 25645229 - xen/manage: Always freeze/tha...

Unbreakable Enterprise kernel security update

2.6.39-400.297.3 - nfsd: check for oversized NFSv2/v3 arguments J. Bruce Fields Orabug: 26366024 CVE-2017-7645 2.6.39-400.297.2 - dm mpath: allow ioctls to trigger pg init Mikulas Patocka Orabug: 25645229 - xen/manage: Always freeze/thaw processes when suspend/resuming Ross Lagerwall Orabug:...

Scientific Linux Security Update : kernel on SL7.x x86_64 (20170628)

Security Fixes : - A flaw was found in the way Linux kernel allocates heap memory to build the scattergather list from a fragment listskbshinfoskb-fraglist in the socket bufferskbbuff. The heap overflow occurred if 'MAXSKBFRAGS - 1' parameter and 'NETIFFFRAGLIST' feature were used together. A...

RHEL 7 : kernel (RHSA-2017:1615)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2017:1615 advisory. The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system. Security Fixes: A flaw was found in the way Linux kern...

Scientific Linux Security Update : kernel on SL6.x i386/x86_64 (20170531)

Security Fixes : - A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's handling of packets with the URG flag. Applications using the splice and tcpspliceread functionality can allow a remote attacker to force the kernel to enter a condition in which it can loop indefinitely. CVE-2017-6214, Moderate Bug Fixes ...

RedHat Update for kernel RHSA-2017:1372-01

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2017 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...

kernel, perf, python security update

CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-2017:1372 An update for kernel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity...

OracleVM 3.3 : Unbreakable / etc (OVMSA-2017-0105)

The remote OracleVM system is missing necessary patches to address critical security updates : - nfsd: stricter decoding of write-like NFSv2/v3 ops J. Bruce Fields Orabug: 25986990 CVE-2017-7895 - fnic: Update fnic driver version to 1.6.0.24 John Sobecki Orabug: 24448585 - xen-netfront: Rework th...

Scientific Linux Security Update : kernel on SL6.x i386/x86_64 (20160323)

It was found that the fix for CVE-2015-1805 incorrectly kept buffer offset and buffer length in sync on a failed atomic read, potentially resulting in a pipe buffer state corruption. A local, unprivileged user could use this flaw to crash the system or leak kernel memory to user space...

CentOS 6 : kernel (CESA-2016:0494)

Updated kernel packages that fix one security issue, several bugs, and add one enhancement are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having Moderate security impact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a...