[slackware-security] Slackware 14.2 kernel

New kernel packages are available for Slackware 14.2 to fix a security issue. Here are the details from the Slackware 14.2 ChangeLog: patches/packages/linux-4.4.157/: Upgraded. This kernel removes the unnecessary vmacacheflushall code which could have led to a use-after-free situation and...

USN-3391-3: Firefox regression

USN-3391-1 fixed vulnerabilities in Firefox. The update introduced a performance regression with WebExtensions. This update fixes the problem. We apologize for the inconvenience. Original advisory details: Multiple security issues were discovered in Firefox. If a user were tricked in to opening a...

USN-3391-3 firefox regression

USN-3391-1 fixed vulnerabilities in Firefox. The update introduced a performance regression with WebExtensions. This update fixes the problem. We apologize for the inconvenience. Original advisory details: Multiple security issues were discovered in Firefox. If a user were tricked in to opening a...

openSUSE Security Update : curl (openSUSE-2016-1043)

This update for curl fixes the following issues : - fixing a performance regression with FTP boo991746 - TLS session resumption client cert bypass boo991389, CVE-2016-5419 - Re-using connections with wrong client cert boo991390, CVE-2016-5420 - use of connection struct after free boo991391,...

openSUSE Security Update : glibc (openSUSE-2016-852)

This update for glibc provides the following fixes : - Increase DTVSURPLUS limit. bsc968787 - Do not copy dname field of struct dirent. CVE-2016-1234, bsc969727 - Fix memory leak in nssdnsgethostbyname4r. bsc973010 - Fix stack overflow in nssdnsgetnetbynamer. CVE-2016-3075, bsc973164 - Fix malloc...

Oracle: Security Advisory (ELSA-2007-0993)

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...

Oracle: Security Advisory (ELSA-2008-0612)

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...

Updated kernel-rt packages fixes multiple bugs and vulneraabilities

Updated kernel-rt provides upstream 3.12.18 kernel and fixes the following security issues: Buffer overflow in the completeemulatedmmio function in arch/x86/kvm/ x86.c in the Linux kernel before 3.13.6 allows guest OS users to execute arbitrary code on the host OS by leveraging a loop that trigge...

Scientific Linux Security Update : glibc on SL5.x i386/x86_64 (20130424)

It was found that getaddrinfo did not limit the amount of stack memory used during name resolution. An attacker able to make an application resolve an attacker-controlled hostname or IP address could possibly cause the application to exhaust all stack memory and crash. CVE-2013-1914 A flaw was...

RHEL 5 : glibc (RHSA-2013:0769)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 5 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2013:0769 advisory. The glibc packages provide the standard C libraries libc, POSIX thread libraries libpthread, standard math libraries libm, and the Name Serv...

sssd security and bug fix update

1.9.2-82.4 - Resolves: rhbz911298 - sssd: simple access provider flaw prevents intended ACL use when client to an AD provider 1.9.2-82.3 - Fix pwdexpirationwarning=0 - Resolves: rhbz914671 - pwdexpirationwarning has wrong default for Kerberos 1.9.2-82.2 - Resolves: rhbz914671 - pwdexpirationwarni...

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

The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system. Security fix : - Using the SGIO IOCTL to issue SCSI requests to partitions or LVM volumes resulted in the requests being passed to the underlying block device. If a privileged user only had access to a single...

CentOS 6 : kernel (CESA-2011:1849)

Updated kernel packages that fix one security issue and various bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having important security impact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severi...

kernel, perf, python security update

CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-2011:1849 Updated kernel packages that fix one security issue and various bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having important security impact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring...