Ubuntu 15.04 : linux vulnerabilities (USN-2691-1)

Andy Lutomirski discovered a flaw in the Linux kernel's handling of nested NMIs non-maskable interrupts. An unprivileged local user could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service system crash or potentially escalate their privileges. CVE-2015-3290 Colin King discovered a flaw in the addkey...

CVE-2014-9715

include/net/netfilter/nfconntrackextend.h in the netfilter subsystem in the Linux kernel before 3.14.5 uses an insufficiently large data type for certain extension data, which allows local users to cause a denial of service NULL pointer dereference and OOPS via outbound network traffic that...

SUSE SLED11 / SLES11 Security Update : kernel (SUSE-SU-2014:0189-1)

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 Service Pack 3 kernel was updated to 3.0.101 and also includes various other bug and security fixes. A new feature was added : - supported.conf: marked net/netfilter/xtset as supported bnc851066fate313309 The following security bugs have been fixed : CVE-2013-4587:...

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...

USN-2445-1: Linux kernel (Trusty HWE) vulnerabilities

Andy Lutomirski discovered that the Linux kernel does not properly handle faults associated with the Stack Segment SS register in the x86 architecture. A local attacker could exploit this flaw to gain administrative privileges. CVE-2014-9322 An information leak in the Linux kernel was discovered...

USN-2444-1: Linux kernel (OMAP4) vulnerabilities

Rabin Vincent, Robert Swiecki, Russell King discovered that the ftrace subsystem of the Linux kernel does not properly handle private syscall numbers. A local user could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service OOPS. CVE-2014-7826 Rabin Vincent, Robert Swiecki, Russell Kinglaw discovered a...

OracleVM 2.1 : kernel (OVMSA-2009-0009)

The remote OracleVM system is missing necessary patches to address critical security updates : CVE-2008-4307 Race condition in the dosetlk function in fs/nfs/file.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.26 allows local users to cause a denial of service crash via vectors resulting in an interrupted RPC...

USN-2420-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

A flaw was discovered in how the Linux kernel's KVM Kernel Virtual Machine subsystem handles the CR4 control register at VM entry on Intel processors. A local host OS user can exploit this to cause a denial of service kill arbitrary processes, or system disruption by leveraging /dev/kvm access...

USN-2419-1: Linux kernel (Trusty HWE) vulnerabilities

A flaw was discovered in how the Linux kernel's KVM Kernel Virtual Machine subsystem handles the CR4 control register at VM entry on Intel processors. A local host OS user can exploit this to cause a denial of service kill arbitrary processes, or system disruption by leveraging /dev/kvm access...

USN-2416-1: Linux kernel (EC2) vulnerabilities

Don Bailey discovered a flaw in the LZO decompress algorithm used by the Linux kernel. An attacker could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service memory corruption or OOPS. CVE-2014-4608 Andy Lutomirski discovered that the Linux kernel was not checking the CAPSYSADMIN when remounting...

USN-2415-1: Linux kernel vulnerability

Don Bailey discovered a flaw in the LZO decompress algorithm used by the Linux kernel. An attacker could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service memory corruption or OOPS. CVE-2014-4608 Andy Lutomirski discovered that the Linux kernel was not checking the CAPSYSADMIN when remounting...

Ubuntu 10.04 LTS : linux-ec2 vulnerabilities (USN-2416-1)

Don Bailey discovered a flaw in the LZO decompress algorithm used by the Linux kernel. An attacker could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service memory corruption or OOPS. CVE-2014-4608 Andy Lutomirski discovered that the Linux kernel was not checking the CAPSYSADMIN when remounting...

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS : linux vulnerabilities (USN-2417-1)

Nadav Amit reported that the KVM Kernel Virtual Machine mishandles noncanonical addresses when emulating instructions that change the rip Instruction Pointer. A guest user with access to I/O or the MMIO can use this flaw to cause a denial of service system crash of the guest. CVE-2014-3647 A flaw...

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : Linux kernel vulnerabilities (USN-2420-1)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-2420-1 advisory. A flaw was discovered in how the Linux kernel's KVM Kernel Virtual Machine subsystem handles the CR4 control register at VM entry on Intel processors. A...

Ubuntu 14.10 : linux vulnerabilities (USN-2421-1)

A flaw was discovered in how the Linux kernel's KVM Kernel Virtual Machine subsystem handles the CR4 control register at VM entry on Intel processors. A local host OS user can exploit this to cause a denial of service kill arbitrary processes, or system disruption by leveraging /dev/kvm access...

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS : linux-lts-trusty vulnerabilities (USN-2419-1)

A flaw was discovered in how the Linux kernel's KVM Kernel Virtual Machine subsystem handles the CR4 control register at VM entry on Intel processors. A local host OS user can exploit this to cause a denial of service kill arbitrary processes, or system disruption by leveraging /dev/kvm access...

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...

CVE-2014-7283

The xfsda3fixhashpath function in fs/xfs/xfsdabtree.c in the xfs implementation in the Linux kernel before 3.14.2 does not properly compare btree hash values, which allows local users to cause a denial of service filesystem corruption, and OOPS or panic via operations on directories that have has...

CVE-2014-7283

The xfsda3fixhashpath function in fs/xfs/xfsdabtree.c in the xfs implementation in the Linux kernel before 3.14.2 does not properly compare btree hash values, which allows local users to cause a denial of service filesystem corruption, and OOPS or panic via operations on directories that have has...

USN-2359-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Jack Morgenstein reported a flaw in the page handling of the KVM Kerenl Virtual Machine subsystem in the Linux kernel. A guest OS user could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service host OS memory corruption or possibly have other unspecified impact on the host OS. CVE-2014-3601 Jason...