Amazon Linux: Security Advisory (ALAS-2012-122)

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...

OracleVM 3.3 : net-snmp (OVMSA-2015-0099)

The remote OracleVM system is missing necessary patches to address critical security updates : - Add Oracle ACFS to hrStorage John Haxby orabug 18510373 - Quicker loading of IP-MIB::ipAddrTable 1191393 - Quicker loading of IP-MIB::ipAddressTable 1191393 - Fixed snmptrapd crash when '-OQ' paramete...

DLA-246-2 linux-2.6 - security update

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SUSE SLES10 Security Update : kernel (SUSE-SU-2014:0536-1)

The SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 Service Pack 4 LTSS kernel has been updated to fix various security issues and several bugs. The following security issues have been addressed : CVE-2011-2492: The bluetooth subsystem in the Linux kernel before 3.0-rc4 does not properly initialize certain data...

SUSE SLED10 / SLES10 Security Update : kernel (SUSE-SU-2012:1391-1)

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-2011-2494: kernel/taskstats.c in the Linux kernel allowed local users to obtain sensitive I/O statistics by sending taskstats commands to...

Security update for the Linux Kernel (important)

The openSUSE 13.1 kernel was updated to fix security issues and bugs: Security issues fixed: CVE-2014-9322: A local privilege escalation in the x8664 32bit compatibility signal handling was fixed, which could be used by local attackers to crash the machine or execute code. CVE-2014-9090: The...

Oracle Linux 5 : kernel (ELSA-2014-1959-1)

From Red Hat Security Advisory 2014:1959 : Updated kernel packages that fix one security issue and three bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having Moderate security impact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score,...

Scientific Linux Security Update : kernel on SL5.x i386/x86_64 (20141204)

It was found that the permission checks performed by the Linux kernel when a netlink message was received were not sufficient. A local, unprivileged user could potentially bypass these restrictions by passing a netlink socket as stdout or stderr to a more privileged process and altering the...

Oracle Linux 5 : kernel (ELSA-2014-1959)

The remote Oracle Linux 5 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ELSA-2014-1959 advisory. - net netlink: verify permisions of socket creator Jiri Benc 1094266 CVE-2014-0181 - net netlink: store effective caps at socket time Jiri Benc 1094266...

kernel security and bug fix update

kernel 2.6.18-400 - net bridge: disable snooping if there is no querier Frantisek Hrbata 902454 - s390 kernel: sysinfo: convert /proc/sysinfo to seqfile Alexander Gordeev 1131283 - net netlink: verify permisions of socket creator Jiri Benc 1094266 CVE-2014-0181 - net netlink: store effective caps...

RHEL 5 : kernel (RHSA-2014:1959)

Updated kernel packages that fix one security issue and three bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having Moderate security impact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is...

CentOS 5 : kernel (CESA-2014:1959)

Updated kernel packages that fix one security issue and three bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having Moderate security impact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is...

kernel: net: insufficient permision checks of netlink messages

It was found that the permission checks performed by the Linux kernel when a netlink message was received were not sufficient. A local, unprivileged user could potentially bypass these restrictions by passing a netlink socket as stdout or stderr to a more privileged process and altering the outpu...

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

Updated kernel packages that fix one security issue and three bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having Moderate security impact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is...

OracleVM 2.1 : udev (OVMSA-2009-0006)

The remote OracleVM system is missing necessary patches to address critical security updates : CVE-2009-1185 udev before 1.4.1 does not verify whether a NETLINK message originates from kernel space, which allows local users to gain privileges by sending a NETLINK message from user space. - fix fo...

Scientific Linux Security Update : kernel on SL6.x i386/x86_64 (20141014)

A NULL pointer dereference flaw was found in the way the Linux kernel's Stream Control Transmission Protocol SCTP implementation handled simultaneous connections between the same hosts. A remote attacker could use this flaw to crash the system. CVE-2014-5077, Important An integer overflow flaw wa...

Oracle Linux 6 : kernel (ELSA-2014-1392)

The remote Oracle Linux 6 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2014-1392 advisory. - kernel futex: Fix errors in nested key ref-counting Denys Vlasenko 1094458 CVE-2014-0205 Tenable has extracted the preceding description block direct...

kernel: net: insufficient permision checks of netlink messages

It was found that the permission checks performed by the Linux kernel when a netlink message was received were not sufficient. A local, unprivileged user could potentially bypass these restrictions by passing a netlink socket as stdout or stderr to a more privileged process and altering the outpu...

libmnl: incorrect validation of netlink message origin allows attackers to spoof netlink messages

The netlinksendmsg function in net/netlink/afnetlink.c in the Linux kernel before 3.5.5 does not validate the dstpid field, which allows local users to have an unspecified impact by spoofing Netlink messages...

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS : linux-lts-trusty vulnerabilities (USN-2336-1)

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 denial of service host OS crash. CVE-2014-0155 Andy Lutomirski discovered a flaw in the authorization of netlink socket operations when a socket...