[ASA-201612-14] linux-zen: denial of service

Arch Linux Security Advisory ASA-201612-14 ========================================== Severity: High Date : 2016-12-12 CVE-ID : CVE-2016-9919 Package : linux-zen Type : denial of service Remote : Yes Link : https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/CVE Summary ======= The package linux-zen before...

[ASA-201612-11] linux-grsec: denial of service

Arch Linux Security Advisory ASA-201612-11 ========================================== Severity: High Date : 2016-12-10 CVE-ID : CVE-2016-9919 Package : linux-grsec Type : denial of service Remote : Yes Link : https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/CVE Summary ======= The package linux-grsec before...

Updated kernel-linus-4.4.32 packages fix security vulnerability

This update is based on upstream 4.4.32 and fixes alteast the following security issues: Vladimir Bene discovered an unbounded recursion in the VLAN and TEB Generic Receive Offload GRO processing implementations in the Linux kernel, A remote attacker could use this to cause a stack corruption,...

SUSE SLES11 Security Update : kernel (SUSE-SU-2016:2976-1)

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 SP4 kernel was updated to receive various security and bugfixes. For the PowerPC64 a new 'bigmem' flavor has been added to support big Power machines. FATE319026 The following security bugs were fixed : - CVE-2016-7042: The prockeysshow function in security/keys/proc....

CVE-2016-9313

The implementation of big key management in security/keys/bigkey.c in the Linux kernel before 4.8.7 mishandles unsuccessful crypto registration in conjunction with successful key-type registration, which allows local users to cause a denial of service NULL pointer dereference and panic or possibl...

SUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : kernel (SUSE-SU-2016:2912-1)

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 kernel was updated to 3.12.67 to receive various security and bugfixes. The following security bugs were fixed : - CVE-2016-7042: The prockeysshow function in security/keys/proc.c in the Linux kernel used an incorrect buffer size for certain timeout data, which allowe...

Scientific Linux Security Update : kernel on SL6.x i386/x86_64 (20161115)

Security Fixes : - It was found that stacking a file system over procfs in the Linux kernel could lead to a kernel stack overflow due to deep nesting, as demonstrated by mounting ecryptfs over procfs and creating a recursion by mapping /proc/environ. An unprivileged, local user could potentially...

CentOS 6 : kernel (CESA-2016:2766)

An update for kernel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. 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...

CentOS Update for kernel CESA-2016:2766 centos6

Check for the Version of kernel SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2016 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 scriptoid"1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.882598";...

RHEL 6 : kernel (RHSA-2016:2766)

An update for kernel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. 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...

RedHat Update for kernel RHSA-2016:2766-01

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2016 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...

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

An update for kernel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. 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...

Linux Kernel Keyctl Null Pointer Dereference Vulnerability

A malicious interaction with the keyctl usermode interface allows an attacker to crash the kernel. Processing the attached certificate by the kernel leads to a kernel nullpointer dereference. This vulnerably can be triggered by any unprivileged user locally. Local DoS: Linux Kernel Nullpointer...

Amazon Linux AMI : kernel (ALAS-2016-762)

The IP stack in the Linux kernel before 4.6 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service stack consumption and panic or possibly have unspecified other impact by triggering use of the GRO path for packets with tunnel stacking, as demonstrated by interleaved IPv4 headers and GRE headers, a...

Important: kernel

Issue Overview: The IP stack in the Linux kernel before 4.6 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service stack consumption and panic or possibly have unspecified other impact by triggering use of the GRO path for packets with tunnel stacking, as demonstrated by interleaved IPv4 headers an...

Oracle Linux 6 / 7 : Unbreakable Enterprise kernel (ELSA-2016-3635)

The remote Oracle Linux 6 / 7 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ELSA-2016-3635 advisory. - sched: panic on corrupted stack end Jann Horn Orabug: 24971921 CVE-2016-1583 - ecryptfs: forbid opening files without mmap handler Jann Horn Orabug:...

kernel: Kernel panic and system lockup by triggering BUG_ON() in public_key_verify_signature()

A syntax vulnerability was discovered in the kernel's ASN1.1 DER decoder, which could lead to memory corruption or a complete local denial of service through x509 certificate DER files. A local system user could use a specially created key file to trigger BUGON in the publickeyverifysignature...

kernel: incorrect restoration of machine specific registers from userspace

A flaw was found in the Linux kernel which could cause a kernel panic when restoring machine specific registers on the PowerPC platform. Incorrect transactional memory state registers could inadvertently change the call path on return from userspace and cause the kernel to enter an unknown state...

kernel: incorrect restoration of machine specific registers from userspace

A flaw was found in the Linux kernel which could cause a kernel panic when restoring machine specific registers on the PowerPC platform. Incorrect transactional memory state registers could inadvertently change the call path on return from userspace and cause the kernel to enter an unknown state...

kernel: Kernel panic and system lockup by triggering BUG_ON() in public_key_verify_signature()

A syntax vulnerability was discovered in the kernel's ASN1.1 DER decoder, which could lead to memory corruption or a complete local denial of service through x509 certificate DER files. A local system user could use a specially created key file to trigger BUGON in the publickeyverifysignature...