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

Updated kernel-rt packages that fix two security issues, several bugs, and add various enhancements are now available for Red Hat Enterprise MRG 2.5. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having Important security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base scores, which giv...

TLS 1.2 Transcipt Collision attacks against MD5 in key exchange protocol (SLOTH)

A flaw was found in the way TLS 1.2 could use the MD5 hash function for signing ServerKeyExchange and Client Authentication packets during a TLS handshake. A man-in-the-middle attacker able to force a TLS connection to use the MD5 hash function could use this flaw to conduct collision attacks to...

kernel security and bug fix update

3.10.0-327.3.1.OL7 - Oracle Linux certificates Alexey Petrenko 3.10.0-327.3.1 - rebuild 3.10.0-327.2.1 - netdrv macvtap: unbreak receiving of gro skb with frag list Jason Wang 1279794 1273737 - net ipv6: drop frames with attached skb-sk in forwarding Hannes Frederic Sowa 1281701 1243966 - net ipv...

kernel security, bug fix, and enhancement update

3.10.0-327.OL7 - Oracle Linux certificates Alexey Petrenko 3.10.0-327 - mm free compound page with correct order Andrea Arcangeli 1274867 - netdrv revert 'ixgbe: Refactor busy poll socket code to address multiple issues' John Greene 1261275 - powerpc dma: dmasetcoherentmask should not be GPL only...

kernel security, bug fix, and enhancement update

3.10.0-229.20.1.OL7 - Oracle Linux certificates Alexey Petrenko 3.10.0-229.20.1 - Revert: crypto nx - Check for bogus firmware properties Phillip Lougher 1247127 1190103 - Revert: crypto nx - Moving NX-AES-CBC to be processed logic Phillip Lougher 1247127 1190103 - Revert: crypto nx - Moving...

md-health.com XSS vulnerability

Open Bug Bounty ID: OBB-93758 Description| Value ---|--- Affected Website:| md-health.com Vulnerable Application:| Custom Code Vulnerability Type:| XSS Cross Site Scripting / CWE-79 CVSSv3 Score:| 6.1 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N Remediation Guide:| OWASP XSS Prevention Cheat Shee...

USN-2777-1 linux-lts-utopic vulnerabilities

It was discovered that virtio networking in the Linux kernel did not handle fragments correctly, leading to kernel memory corruption. A remote attacker could use this to cause a denial of service system crash or possibly execute code with administrative privileges. CVE-2015-5156 Benjamin Randazzo...

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : Linux kernel (Vivid HWE) vulnerabilities (USN-2751-1)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-2751-1 advisory. Benjamin Randazzo discovered an information leak in the md multiple device driver when the bitmapinfo.file is disabled. A local privileged attacker could...

Ubuntu 15.04 : linux vulnerabilities (USN-2752-1)

Benjamin Randazzo discovered an information leak in the md multiple device driver when the bitmapinfo.file is disabled. A local privileged attacker could use this to obtain sensitive information from the kernel. CVE-2015-5697 Marc-Andre Lureau discovered that the vhost driver did not properly...

USN-2751-1 linux-lts-vivid vulnerabilities

Benjamin Randazzo discovered an information leak in the md multiple device driver when the bitmapinfo.file is disabled. A local privileged attacker could use this to obtain sensitive information from the kernel. CVE-2015-5697 Marc-André Lureau discovered that the vhost driver did not properly...

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : Linux kernel vulnerabilities (USN-2748-1)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-2748-1 advisory. Benjamin Randazzo discovered an information leak in the md multiple device driver when the bitmapinfo.file is disabled. A local privileged attacker could...

Debian DLA-310-1 : linux-2.6 security update

This update fixes the CVEs described below. CVE-2015-0272 It was discovered that NetworkManager would set IPv6 MTUs based on the values received in IPv6 RAs Router Advertisements, without sufficiently validating these values. A remote attacker could exploit this attack to disable IPv6 connectivit...

Amazon Linux: Security Advisory (ALAS-2013-233)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2015 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...

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS : linux vulnerability (USN-2731-1)

Benjamin Randazzo discovered an information leak in the md multiple device driver when the bitmapinfo.file is disabled. A local privileged attacker could use this to obtain sensitive information from the kernel. Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-2732-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2015 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...

CVE-2015-5697: Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

The getbitmapfile function in drivers/md/md.c in the Linux kernel before 4.1.6 does not initialize a certain bitmap data structure, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel memory via a GETBITMAPFILE ioctl call...

Debian: Security Advisory (DSA-3329-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the Debian SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2015 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...

Debian DSA-3329-1 : linux - security update

Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Linux kernel that may lead to a privilege escalation, denial of service or information leak. - CVE-2015-1333 Colin Ian King discovered a flaw in the addkey function of the Linux kernel's keyring subsystem. A local user can exploit this flaw to...

Unbreakable Enterprise kernel security update

kernel-uek 3.8.13-98.1.1 - md: use kzalloc when bitmap is disabled Benjamin Randazzo Orabug: 21563041 CVE-2015-5697...

kernel security, bug fix, and enhancement update

2.6.32-573 - security selinux: dont waste ebitmap space when importing NetLabel categories Paul Moore 1130197 - x86 Revert Add driver auto probing for x86 features v4 Prarit Bhargava 1231280 - net bridge: netfilter: dont call iptables on vlan packets if sysctl is off Florian Westphal 1236551 - ne...