Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: kernel security 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...

[ASA-201610-16] linux-grsec: privilege escalation

Arch Linux Security Advisory ASA-201610-16 ========================================== Severity: High Date : 2016-10-24 CVE-ID : CVE-2016-5195 Package : linux-grsec Type : privilege escalation Remote : No Link : https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/CVE Summary ======= The package linux-grsec befor...

Linux kernel 2.6.22 < 3.9 elevation of privilege vulnerability (Dirty COW)

Summary A race condition was found in the way the Linux kernel's memory subsystem handled the copy-on-write COW breakage of private read-only memory mappings. All the information we have so far is included in this page. The bug has existed since around 2.6.22 released in 2007 and was fixed on Oct...

[ASA-201610-14] linux: privilege escalation

Arch Linux Security Advisory ASA-201610-14 ========================================== Severity: High Date : 2016-10-22 CVE-ID : CVE-2016-5195 Package : linux Type : privilege escalation Remote : No Link : https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/CVE Summary ======= The package linux before version...

[ASA-201610-11] linux-lts: privilege escalation

Arch Linux Security Advisory ASA-201610-11 ========================================== Severity: High Date : 2016-10-21 CVE-ID : CVE-2016-5195 Package : linux-lts Type : privilege escalation Remote : No Link : https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/CVE Summary ======= The package linux-lts before...

Amazon Linux AMI : kernel (ALAS-2016-757) (Dirty COW)

A race condition was found in the way the Linux kernel's memory subsystem handled the copy-on-write COW breakage of private read-only memory mappings. An unprivileged local user could use this flaw to gain write access to otherwise read-only memory mappings and thus increase their privileges on t...

Security Advisory 0026

Security Advisory 0026 PDF Date: October 21st, 2016 Version: 1.0 Revision | Date | Changes ---|---|--- 1.0 | October 21st, 2016 | Initial release Arista Products vulnerability report for CVE-2016-5195 On October 21st 2016, information was released about a security advisory for a race condition...

Linux kernel memory subsystem copy on write mechanism contains a race condition vulnerability

Overview The Linux kernel since version 2.6.22 contains a race condition in the way the copy on write mechanism is handled by the memory subsystem, which may be leveraged locally to gain root privileges. Description CWE-362: Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchonization...

Critical: kernel

Issue Overview: A race condition was found in the way the Linux kernel's memory subsystem handled the copy-on-write COW breakage of private read-only memory mappings. An unprivileged local user could use this flaw to gain write access to otherwise read-only memory mappings and thus increase their...

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

Updated kernel packages that fix multiple security issues and several bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having moderate security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base scores, which give detailed...

USN-1577-1 : linux-ti-omap4 vulnerabilities

A flaw was discovered in the Linux kernel's KVM kernel virtual machine. An administrative user in the guest OS could leverage this flaw to cause a denial of service in the host OS. CVE-2012-2121 Ben Hutchings reported a flaw in the Linux kernel with some network drivers that support TSO TCP segme...

Ubuntu Update for linux-ti-omap4 USN-1577-1

Ubuntu Update for Linux kernel vulnerabilities USN-1577-1 OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: gbubuntuUSN15771.nasl 7960 2017-12-01 06:58:16Z santu $ Ubuntu Update for linux-ti-omap4 USN-1577-1 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2012 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.n...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-1572-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2012 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: Security Advisory (USN-1577-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2012 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: Security Advisory (USN-1573-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2012 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: Security Advisory (USN-1574-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2012 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...

USN-1577-1: Linux kernel (OMAP4) vulnerabilities

A flaw was discovered in the Linux kernel's KVM kernel virtual machine. An administrative user in the guest OS could leverage this flaw to cause a denial of service in the host OS. CVE-2012-2121 Ben Hutchings reported a flaw in the Linux kernel with some network drivers that support TSO TCP segme...

USN-1574-1: Linux kernel (Natty backport) vulnerabilities

A flaw was found in how the Linux kernel passed the replacement session keyring to a child process. An unprivileged local user could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service panic. CVE-2012-2745 Ben Hutchings reported a flaw in the Linux kernel with some network drivers that support TSO TCP...

USN-1573-1: Linux kernel (EC2) vulnerabilities

Ben Hutchings reported a flaw in the Linux kernel with some network drivers that support TSO TCP segment offload. A local or peer user could exploit this flaw to to cause a denial of service. CVE-2012-3412 Jay Fenlason and Doug Ledford discovered a bug in the Linux kernel implementation of RDS...

USN-1572-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Ben Hutchings reported a flaw in the Linux kernel with some network drivers that support TSO TCP segment offload. A local or peer user could exploit this flaw to to cause a denial of service. CVE-2012-3412 Jay Fenlason and Doug Ledford discovered a bug in the Linux kernel implementation of RDS...