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 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...

Updated kernel-linus packages fix security vulnerabilities

This kernel-linus update is based on upstream -longterm 3.14.23 and fixes the following security issues: The kvmiommumappages function in virt/kvm/iommu.c in the Linux kernel through 3.16.1 miscalculates the number of pages during the handling of a mapping failure, which allows guest OS users to ...

CVE-2014-7970

The pivotroot implementation in fs/namespace.c in the Linux kernel through 3.17 does not properly interact with certain locations of a chroot directory, which allows local users to cause a denial of service mount-tree loop via . dot values in both arguments to the pivotroot system call...

CVE-2014-7970

The pivotroot implementation in fs/namespace.c in the Linux kernel through 3.17 does not properly interact with certain locations of a chroot directory, which allows local users to cause a denial of service mount-tree loop via . dot values in both arguments to the pivotroot system call...

Code injection

The pivotroot implementation in fs/namespace.c in the Linux kernel through 3.17 does not properly interact with certain locations of a chroot directory, which allows local users to cause a denial of service mount-tree loop via . dot values in both arguments to the pivotroot system call...

CVE-2014-7970

The pivotroot implementation in fs/namespace.c in the Linux kernel through 3.17 does not properly interact with certain locations of a chroot directory, which allows local users to cause a denial of service mount-tree loop via . dot values in both arguments to the pivotroot system call...

CVE-2014-7970

CVE-2014-7970 is described in connected Lenovo advisories as a Linux kernel vulnerability where pivot_root() could be misused to trigger a local denial of service (mount-tree loop) via dot-path arguments. Lenovo’s advisory for PowerKVM lists affected product: PowerKVM v3.1, and states the issue i...

CVE-2014-7970

The pivotroot implementation in fs/namespace.c in the Linux kernel through 3.17 does not properly interact with certain locations of a chroot directory, which allows local users to cause a denial of service mount-tree loop via . dot values in both arguments to the pivotroot system call...

UBUNTU-CVE-2014-7970

The pivotroot implementation in fs/namespace.c in the Linux kernel through 3.17 does not properly interact with certain locations of a chroot directory, which allows local users to cause a denial of service mount-tree loop via . dot values in both arguments to the pivotroot system call...

CVE-2014-7970

The pivotroot implementation in fs/namespace.c in the Linux kernel through 3.17 does not properly interact with certain locations of a chroot directory, which allows local users to cause a denial of service mount-tree loop via . dot values in both arguments to the pivotroot system call...