SUSE-SU-2018:1482-1 Security update for the Linux Kernel

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 SP4 kernel was updated to receive various security and bugfixes. This update main focus is a regression fix in SystemV IPC handling. bsc1093600 The following non-security bugs were fixed: - Drop cBPF SSBD as classic BPF does not really have a proper concept of pointer...

RHEL 7 : kernel (RHSA-2018:1737)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2018:1737 advisory. The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system. Security Fixes: An industry-wide issue was found in th...

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

An update for kernel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.4 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...

openSUSE Security Update : the Linux Kernel (openSUSE-2018-515) (Spectre)

The openSUSE Leap 15.0 kernel was updated to receive various security and bugfixes. The following security bugs were fixed : - CVE-2018-3639: Systems with microprocessors utilizing speculative execution and speculative execution of memory reads before the addresses of all prior memory writes are...

ROPgadget - This Tool Lets You Search Your Gadgets On Your Binaries To Facilitate Your ROP Exploitation

This tool lets you search your gadgets on your binaries to facilitate your ROP exploitation. ROPgadget supports ELF/PE/Mach-O format on x86, x64, ARM, ARM64, PowerPC, SPARC and MIPS architectures. Since the version 5, ROPgadget has a new core which is written in Python using Capstone disassembly...

kernel security, bug fix, and enhancement update

3.10.0-862.OL7 - Oracle Linux certificates Alexey Petrenko - Oracle Linux RHCK Module Signing Key was compiled into kernel [email protected] - Update x509.genkey bug 24817676 3.10.0-862 - netdrv i40e: Fix attach VF to VM issue Stefan Assmann 1528123 - netdrv ixgbevf:...

Kernel: KVM: oops when checking KVM_CAP_PPC_HTM on PPC platform

The kvmvmioctlcheckextension function in arch/powerpc/kvm/powerpc.c in the Linux kernel before 4.13.11 allows local users to cause a denial of service NULL pointer dereference and system crash via a KVMCHECKEXTENSION KVMCAPPPCHTM ioctl call to /dev/kvm...

kernel: Arbitrary stack overwrite causing oops via crafted signal frame

A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's handling of signal frame on PowerPC systems. A malicious local user process could craft a signal frame allowing an attacker to corrupt memory...

Linux kernel denial of service vulnerability (CNVD-2018-07889)

The Linux kernel is a computer operating system kernel written in C and assembly language, compliant with the POSIX standard, and distributed under the GNU General Public License. A denial of service vulnerability exists in the flushtmregstothread function in arch/powerpc/kernel/ptrace.c in Linux...

CVE-2018-1091

In the flushtmregstothread function in arch/powerpc/kernel/ptrace.c in the Linux kernel before 4.13.5, a guest kernel crash can be triggered from unprivileged userspace during a core dump on a POWER host due to a missing processor feature check and an erroneous use of transactional memory TM...

UBUNTU-CVE-2018-1091

In the flushtmregstothread function in arch/powerpc/kernel/ptrace.c in the Linux kernel before 4.13.5, a guest kernel crash can be triggered from unprivileged userspace during a core dump on a POWER host due to a missing processor feature check and an erroneous use of transactional memory TM...

DEBIAN-CVE-2018-1091

In the flushtmregstothread function in arch/powerpc/kernel/ptrace.c in the Linux kernel before 4.13.5, a guest kernel crash can be triggered from unprivileged userspace during a core dump on a POWER host due to a missing processor feature check and an erroneous use of transactional memory TM...

Scientific Linux Security Update : kernel on SL6.x i386/x86_64 (20180313) (Meltdown) (Spectre)

Security Fixes : - hw: cpu: speculative execution branch target injection s390-only CVE-2017-5715, Important - hw: cpu: speculative execution bounds-check bypass s390 and powerpc CVE-2017-5753, Important - hw: cpu: speculative execution permission faults handling powerpc-only CVE-2017-5754 Bug...

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

An update for kernel-alt 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 fro...

[SECURITY] [DSA 4120-2] linux regression update

------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory DSA-4120-2 [email protected] https://www.debian.org/security/ Salvatore Bonaccorso March 03, 2018 https://www.debian.org/security/faq -...

[SECURITY] [DSA 4120-2] linux regression update

------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory DSA-4120-2 [email protected] https://www.debian.org/security/ Salvatore Bonaccorso March 03, 2018 https://www.debian.org/security/faq -...

powerpc and Intel i386 GNU C Library Integer Overflow Vulnerability

The powerpc is a compact instruction set architecture CPU central processing unit.The Intel i386 is an x86 series CPU central processing unit from Intel Corporation.The GNU C Library aka glibc, libc6 is one of the open source, freeware C language compilers released under the LGPL license. An...

DEBIAN-CVE-2018-6551

The malloc implementation in the GNU C Library aka glibc or libc6, from version 2.24 to 2.26 on powerpc, and only in version 2.26 on i386, did not properly handle malloc calls with arguments close to SIZEMAX and could return a pointer to a heap region that is smaller than requested, eventually...

Design/Logic Flaw

The malloc implementation in the GNU C Library aka glibc or libc6, from version 2.24 to 2.26 on powerpc, and only in version 2.26 on i386, did not properly handle malloc calls with arguments close to SIZEMAX and could return a pointer to a heap region that is smaller than requested, eventually...

UBUNTU-CVE-2018-6551

The malloc implementation in the GNU C Library aka glibc or libc6, from version 2.24 to 2.26 on powerpc, and only in version 2.26 on i386, did not properly handle malloc calls with arguments close to SIZEMAX and could return a pointer to a heap region that is smaller than requested, eventually...