Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2015-8543

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available. - The networking implementation in the Linux kernel through 4.3.3, as used in Android and other products, does not validate protocol identifiers for certain...

Researchers Propose Machine Learning-based Bluetooth Authentication Scheme

A group of academics has proposed a machine learning approach that uses authentic interactions between devices in Bluetooth networks as a foundation to handle device-to-device authentication reliably. Called "Verification of Interaction Authenticity" aka VIA, the recurring authentication scheme...

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : Linux kernel (Vivid HWE) regression (USN-2910-2)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-2910-2 advisory. USN-2910-1 fixed vulnerabilities in the Ubuntu 15.04 Linux kernel backported to Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. An incorrect locking fix caused a regression that broke graphics...

USN-2907-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

halfdog discovered that OverlayFS, when mounting on top of a FUSE mount, incorrectly propagated file attributes, including setuid. A local unprivileged attacker could use this to gain privileges. CVE-2016-1576 halfdog discovered that OverlayFS in the Linux kernel incorrectly propagated security...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-2888-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2016 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...

openSUSE: Security Advisory for kernel (openSUSE-SU-2016:0318-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2016 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-2890-2: Linux kernel (Wily HWE) vulnerabilities

It was discovered that a use-after-free vulnerability existed in the AFUNIX implementation in the Linux kernel. A local attacker could use crafted epollctl calls to cause a denial of service system crash or expose sensitive information. CVE-2013-7446 It was discovered that the KVM implementation ...

USN-2890-2 linux-lts-wily vulnerabilities

It was discovered that a use-after-free vulnerability existed in the AFUNIX implementation in the Linux kernel. A local attacker could use crafted epollctl calls to cause a denial of service system crash or expose sensitive information. CVE-2013-7446 It was discovered that the KVM implementation ...

USN-2888-1: Linux kernel (Utopic HWE) vulnerabilities

It was discovered that a use-after-free vulnerability existed in the AFUNIX implementation in the Linux kernel. A local attacker could use crafted epollctl calls to cause a denial of service system crash or expose sensitive information. CVE-2013-7446 It was discovered that the KVM implementation ...

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : Linux kernel (Wily HWE) vulnerabilities (USN-2890-2)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-2890-2 advisory. It was discovered that a use-after-free vulnerability existed in the AFUNIX implementation in the Linux kernel. A local attacker could use crafted epollc...

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS : linux vulnerabilities (USN-2886-1)

It was discovered that a use-after-free vulnerability existed in the AFUNIX implementation in the Linux kernel. A local attacker could use crafted epollctl calls to cause a denial of service system crash or expose sensitive information. CVE-2013-7446 It was discovered that the KVM implementation ...

Ubuntu 15.10 : linux-raspi2 vulnerabilities (USN-2890-3)

It was discovered that a use-after-free vulnerability existed in the AFUNIX implementation in the Linux kernel. A local attacker could use crafted epollctl calls to cause a denial of service system crash or expose sensitive information. CVE-2013-7446 It was discovered that the KVM implementation ...

Security update for the Linux Kernel (important)

The Linux kernel for openSUSE Leap 42.1 was updated to the 4.1.15 stable release, and also includes security and bugfixes. Following security bugs were fixed: - CVE-2016-0728: A reference leak in keyring handling with joinsessionkeyring could lead to local attackers gain root privileges. bsc96207...

DEBIAN-CVE-2015-8543

The networking implementation in the Linux kernel through 4.3.3, as used in Android and other products, does not validate protocol identifiers for certain protocol families, which allows local users to cause a denial of service NULL function pointer dereference and system crash or possibly gain...

Null pointer dereference

The networking implementation in the Linux kernel through 4.3.3, as used in Android and other products, does not validate protocol identifiers for certain protocol families, which allows local users to cause a denial of service NULL function pointer dereference and system crash or possibly gain...

CVE-2015-8543

The networking implementation in the Linux kernel through 4.3.3, as used in Android and other products, does not validate protocol identifiers for certain protocol families, which allows local users to cause a denial of service NULL function pointer dereference and system crash or possibly gain...

UBUNTU-CVE-2015-8543

The networking implementation in the Linux kernel through 4.3.3, as used in Android and other products, does not validate protocol identifiers for certain protocol families, which allows local users to cause a denial of service NULL function pointer dereference and system crash or possibly gain...