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...

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...

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...

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-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 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...

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...

Ubuntu 17.10 : linux, linux-raspi2 vulnerabilities (USN-3487-1)

It was discovered that the KVM subsystem in the Linux kernel did not properly keep track of nested levels in guest page tables. A local attacker in a guest VM could use this to cause a denial of service host OS crash or possibly execute arbitrary code in the host OS. CVE-2017-12188 It was...

USN-3487-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

It was discovered that the KVM subsystem in the Linux kernel did not properly keep track of nested levels in guest page tables. A local attacker in a guest VM could use this to cause a denial of service host OS crash or possibly execute arbitrary code in the host OS. CVE-2017-12188 It was...

BSA-2017-473

Security Advisory ID : BSA-2017-473 Component : Kernel Revision : 2.0: Final On Linux running on PowerPC hardware Power8 or later a user process can craft a signal frame and then do a sigreturn so that the kernel will take an exception interrupt, and use the r1 value from the signal frame as the...

Linux kernel local denial of service vulnerability (CNVD-2017-33480)

Linux kernel is the kernel used by Linux, the open source operating system released by the Linux Foundation in the United States. A local denial of service vulnerability exists in the 'kvmvmioctlcheckextension' function in the arch/powerpc/kvm/powerpc.c file in versions of the Linux kernel prior ...