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...

kernel, perf, python security update

CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-2018:0151 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...

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

An update for kernel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.3 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...

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

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...

Security update for MozillaFirefox (important)

This update for MozillaFirefox fixes the following issues: - update to Firefox 52.6esr boo1077291 MFSA 2018-01 Speculative execution side-channel attack "Spectre" MFSA 2018-03 CVE-2018-5091 bmo1423086 Use-after-free with DTMF timers CVE-2018-5095 bmo1418447 Integer overflow in Skia library during...

openSUSE: Security Advisory for MozillaFirefox (openSUSE-SU-2018:0203-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the Copyright C 2018 Greenbone Networks GmbH 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-or-later This program is free software; you can...

Scientific Linux Security Update : kernel on SL7.x x86_64 (20180125) (Meltdown) (Spectre)

Security Fixes : An industry-wide issue was found in the way many modern microprocessor designs have implemented speculative execution of instructions a commonly used performance optimization. There are three primary variants of the issue which differ in the way the speculative execution can be...

kernel security and bug fix update

3.10.0-693.17.1.OL7 - Oracle Linux certificates Alexey Petrenko - Oracle Linux RHCK Module Signing Key was compiled into kernel [email protected] - Update x509.genkey bug 24817676 3.10.0-693.17.1 - s390 locking/barriers: remove old gmb macro definition Denys Vlasenko...

USN-3541-2 linux-hwe, linux-azure, linux-gcp, linux-oem vulnerabilities

USN-3541-1 addressed vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel for Ubuntu 17.10. This update provides the corresponding updates for the Linux Hardware Enablement HWE kernel from Ubuntu 17.10 for Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. Jann Horn discovered that microprocessors utilizing speculative execution and branch...

RetDec - A Retargetable Machine-Code Decompiler

RetDec is a retargetable machine-code decompiler based on LLVM. The decompiler is not limited to any particular target architecture, operating system, or executable file format: Supported file formats: ELF, PE, Mach-O, COFF, AR archive, Intel HEX, and raw machine code. Supported architectures 32b...

The vulnerability of the altivec_unavailable_exception function in the Linux operating system’s kernel allows a hacker to trigger a service failure.

The vulnerability of the altivecunavailableexception function arch/powerpc/kernel/traps.c in the Linux operating system is related to errors in data processing on 64-bit operating systems. This occurs when CONFIGALTIVEC is defined, and the processor supports Activec, but its support is not detect...

openSUSE Security Update : binutils (openSUSE-2017-1330)

GNU binutil was updated to the 2.29.1 release, bringing various new features, fixing a lot of bugs and security issues. Following security issues are being addressed by this release : - 18750 bsc1030296 CVE-2014-9939 - 20891 bsc1030585 CVE-2017-7225 - 20892 bsc1030588 CVE-2017-7224 - 20898...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-3507-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2017 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...

USN-3507-2: Linux kernel (GCP) vulnerabilities

Mohamed Ghannam discovered that a use-after-free vulnerability existed in the Netlink subsystem XFRM in the Linux kernel. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service system crash or possibly execute arbitrary code. CVE-2017-16939 It was discovered that the Linux kernel did not...

USN-3507-2 linux-gcp vulnerabilities

Mohamed Ghannam discovered that a use-after-free vulnerability existed in the Netlink subsystem XFRM in the Linux kernel. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service system crash or possibly execute arbitrary code. CVE-2017-16939 It was discovered that the Linux kernel did not...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-3507-2)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2017 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...

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS : Linux kernel (GCP) vulnerabilities (USN-3507-2)

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-3507-2 advisory. Mohamed Ghannam discovered that a use-after-free vulnerability existed in the Netlink subsystem XFRM in the Linux kernel. A local attacker could use this...

Ubuntu 17.10 : linux, linux-raspi2 vulnerabilities (USN-3507-1) (Dirty COW)

Mohamed Ghannam discovered that a use-after-free vulnerability existed in the Netlink subsystem XFRM in the Linux kernel. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service system crash or possibly execute arbitrary code. CVE-2017-16939 It was discovered that the Linux kernel did not...

USN-3507-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Mohamed Ghannam discovered that a use-after-free vulnerability existed in the Netlink subsystem XFRM in the Linux kernel. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service system crash or possibly execute arbitrary code. CVE-2017-16939 It was discovered that the Linux kernel did not...

kernel security and bug fix update

3.10.0-693.11.1.OL7 - Oracle Linux certificates Alexey Petrenko - Oracle Linux RHCK Module Signing Key was compiled into kernel [email protected] - Update x509.genkey bug 24817676 3.10.0-693.11.1 - powerpc perf: Fix book3s kernel to userspace backtraces Gustavo...