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...

Unbreakable Enterprise kernel security update

kernel-uek 4.1.12-61.1.17 - sched: panic on corrupted stack end Jann Horn Orabug: 24971921 CVE-2016-1583 - ecryptfs: forbid opening files without mmap handler Jann Horn Orabug: 24971921 CVE-2016-1583 - proc: prevent stacking filesystems on top Jann Horn Orabug: 24971921 CVE-2016-1583...

Linux Kernel EXT4 Error Handling Denial Of Service Vulnerability

Mounting a crafted EXT4 image as read-only leads to a kernel panic. Since the mounting procedure is a privileged operation, an attacker is probably not able to trigger this vulnerability on the commandline. Instead the automatic mounting feature of the GUI via a crafted USB-device is required...

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

An update for kernel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.2 Advanced Update Support. 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...

Apple OS XiOS - mach_ports_register Multiple Memory Safety s

Apple OS XiOS - machportsregister Multiple Memory Safety s Source: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=882 machportsregister is a kernel task port MIG method. It's defined in MIG like this: routine machportsregister targettask : taskt; initportset : machportarrayt = ^array o...

Juniper Junos IPv6 Packet Handling Remote DoS (JSA10762)

According to its self-reported version number and configuration, the remote Juniper Junos device is affected by a denial of service vulnerability in the IPV6 implementation. An unauthenticated, remote attacker can exploit this, via a flood of specially crafted IPv6 traffic, to exhaust available...

RHEL 6 : kernel (RHSA-2016:2074)

An update for kernel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.5 Advanced Update Support. 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...

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

An update for kernel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.5 Advanced Update Support. 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...

CVE-2016-7042

The prockeysshow function in security/keys/proc.c in the Linux kernel through 4.8.2, when the GNU Compiler Collection gcc stack protector is enabled, uses an incorrect buffer size for certain timeout data, which allows local users to cause a denial of service stack memory corruption and panic by...

Memory corruption

The prockeysshow function in security/keys/proc.c in the Linux kernel through 4.8.2, when the GNU Compiler Collection gcc stack protector is enabled, uses an incorrect buffer size for certain timeout data, which allows local users to cause a denial of service stack memory corruption and panic by...

CVE-2016-7042

The prockeysshow function in security/keys/proc.c in the Linux kernel through 4.8.2, when the GNU Compiler Collection gcc stack protector is enabled, uses an incorrect buffer size for certain timeout data, which allows local users to cause a denial of service stack memory corruption and panic by...

CVE-2016-8666

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...

CVE-2016-7042

The prockeysshow function in security/keys/proc.c in the Linux kernel through 4.8.2, when the GNU Compiler Collection gcc stack protector is enabled, uses an incorrect buffer size for certain timeout data, which allows local users to cause a denial of service stack memory corruption and panic by...

CVE-2016-7042

It was found that when the gcc stack protector was enabled, reading the /proc/keys file could cause a panic in the Linux kernel due to stack corruption. This happened because an incorrect buffer size was used to hold a 64-bit timeout value rendered as weeks...

Juniper Networks Junos OS IPv6 DoS Vulnerability

Junos OS is prone to a Denial of Service vulnerability with IPv6 enabled. 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 CPE =...

Scientific Linux Security Update : kernel on SL6.x i386/x86_64 (20161004)

Security Fixes : - A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's keyring handling code, where in keyrejectandlink an uninitialized variable would eventually lead to arbitrary free address which could allow attacker to use a use-after-free style attack. CVE-2016-4470, Important - A heap-based buffer...

CentOS Update for kernel CESA-2016:2006 centos6

Check 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"1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.882574";...

RHEL 6 : kernel (RHSA-2016:2006)

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...

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

An update for kernel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.6 Extended Update Support. 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...

CentOS 7 : kernel (CESA-2016:1847)

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...