Security update for the Linux Kernel (important)

The openSUSE 13.2 kernel was updated to receive various security and bugfixes. Following security bugs were fixed: CVE-2015-3290: arch/x86/entry/entry64.S in the Linux kernel on the x8664 platform improperly relied on espfix64 during nested NMI processing, which allowed local users to gain...

SUSE SLED10 / SLES10 Security Update : kernel (SUSE-SU-2013:0674-1)

This Linux kernel update fixes various security issues and bugs in the SUSE Linux Enterprise 10 SP4 kernel. The following security issues have been fixed : CVE-2013-0871: A race condition in ptrace2 could be used by local attackers to crash the kernel and/or execute code in kernel context...

OracleVM 3.2 : kernel-uek (OVMSA-2013-0008)

The remote OracleVM system is missing necessary patches to address critical security updates : - kmod: make requestmodule killable Oleg Nesterov Orabug: 16286305 CVE-2012-4398 - kmod: introduce callmodprobe helper Oleg Nesterov Orabug: 16286305 CVE-2012-4398 - usermodehelper: implement UMHKILLABL...

OracleVM 3.1 : kernel-uek (OVMSA-2013-0010)

The remote OracleVM system is missing necessary patches to address critical security updates : - xen-pciback: rate limit error messages from xenpcibkenablemsi,x Jan Beulich Orabug: 16243736 CVE-2013-0231 - Xen: Fix stack corruption in xenfailsafecallback for 32bit PVOPS guests. Frediano Ziglio...

USN-2260-1: Linux kernel (Trusty HWE) vulnerabilities

A flaw was discovered in the Linux kernel's pseudo tty pty device. An unprivileged user could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service system crash or potentially gain administrator privileges. CVE-2014-0196 Pinkie Pie discovered a flaw in the Linux kernel's futex subsystem. An unprivileged...

openSUSE Security Update : kernel (openSUSE-SU-2013:1619-1)

The Linux kernel was updated to 3.4.63, fixing various bugs and security issues. - Linux 3.4.59 CVE-2013-2237 bnc828119. - Linux 3.4.57 CVE-2013-2148 bnc823517. - Linux 3.4.55 CVE-2013-2232 CVE-2013-2234 CVE-2013-4162 CVE-2013-4163 bnc827749 bnc827750 bnc831055 bnc831058. - Drivers: hv: util: Fix...

openSUSE Security Update : kernel (openSUSE-SU-2013:0395-1)

The Linux kernel was updated to 3.4.33 and to fix a local root privilege escalation and various other security and non-security bugs. CVE-2013-1763: A out of bounds access in sockdiag could be used by local attackers to execute code in kernel context and so become root. CVE-2013-0160: The atime o...

openSUSE Security Update : kernel (openSUSE-SU-2013:0396-1)

The Linux kernel was updated to fix various bugs and security issues : CVE-2013-0871: Race condition in the ptrace functionality in the Linux kernel allowed local users to gain privileges via a PTRACESETREGS ptrace system call in a crafted application, as demonstrated by ptracedeath. CVE-2013-016...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-2226-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2014 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 14.04 LTS : Linux kernel vulnerabilities (USN-2226-1)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-2226-1 advisory. Matthew Daley reported an information leak in the floppy disk driver of the Linux kernel. An unprivileged local user could exploit this flaw to obtain...

USN-2226-1 linux vulnerabilities

Matthew Daley reported an information leak in the floppy disk driver of the Linux kernel. An unprivileged local user could exploit this flaw to obtain potentially sensitive information from kernel memory. CVE-2014-1738 Matthew Daley reported a flaw in the handling of ioctl commands by the floppy...

DEBIAN-CVE-2014-2580

The netback driver in Xen, when using certain Linux versions that do not allow sleeping in softirq context, allows local guest administrators to cause a denial of service "scheduling while atomic" error and host crash via a malformed packet, which causes a mutex to be taken when trying to disable...

CVE-2014-2580

The netback driver in Xen, when using certain Linux versions that do not allow sleeping in softirq context, allows local guest administrators to cause a denial of service "scheduling while atomic" error and host crash via a malformed packet, which causes a mutex to be taken when trying to disable...

CVE-2014-2580

The netback driver in Xen, when using certain Linux versions that do not allow sleeping in softirq context, allows local guest administrators to cause a denial of service "scheduling while atomic" error and host crash via a malformed packet, which causes a mutex to be taken when trying to disable...

Design/Logic Flaw

The netback driver in Xen, when using certain Linux versions that do not allow sleeping in softirq context, allows local guest administrators to cause a denial of service "scheduling while atomic" error and host crash via a malformed packet, which causes a mutex to be taken when trying to disable...

CVE-2014-2580

The netback driver in Xen, when using certain Linux versions that do not allow sleeping in softirq context, allows local guest administrators to cause a denial of service "scheduling while atomic" error and host crash via a malformed packet, which causes a mutex to be taken when trying to disable...

CVE-2014-2580

The netback driver in Xen, when using certain Linux versions that do not allow sleeping in softirq context, allows local guest administrators to cause a denial of service "scheduling while atomic" error and host crash via a malformed packet, which causes a mutex to be taken when trying to disable...

CVE-2014-2580

The CVE-2014-2580 entry is supported by connected docs showing a concrete issue in the Xen netback driver. Affected component: the netback driver in Xen on certain Linux versions where sleeping in softirq context is not allowed. Root cause: a malformed packet can trigger a mutex lock when attempt...

CVE-2014-2580

The netback driver in Xen, when using certain Linux versions that do not allow sleeping in softirq context, allows local guest administrators to cause a denial of service "scheduling while atomic" error and host crash via a malformed packet, which causes a mutex to be taken when trying to disable...

UBUNTU-CVE-2014-2580

The netback driver in Xen, when using certain Linux versions that do not allow sleeping in softirq context, allows local guest administrators to cause a denial of service "scheduling while atomic" error and host crash via a malformed packet, which causes a mutex to be taken when trying to disable...