USN-2468-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

A null pointer dereference flaw was discovered in the the Linux kernel's SCTP implementation when ASCONF is used. A remote attacker could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service system crash via a malformed INIT chunk. CVE-2014-7841 A race condition with MMIO and PIO transactions in the KV...

USN-2466-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

A null pointer dereference flaw was discovered in the the Linux kernel's SCTP implementation when ASCONF is used. A remote attacker could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service system crash via a malformed INIT chunk. CVE-2014-7841 A race condition with MMIO and PIO transactions in the KV...

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : Linux kernel (Utopic HWE) regression (USN-2447-2)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-2447-2 advisory. USN-2447-1 fixed vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel. Due to an unrelated regression TCP Throughput drops to zero for several drivers after upgrading. This update...

Security update for the Linux Kernel (important)

The openSUSE 13.1 kernel was updated to fix security issues and bugs: Security issues fixed: CVE-2014-9322: A local privilege escalation in the x8664 32bit compatibility signal handling was fixed, which could be used by local attackers to crash the machine or execute code. CVE-2014-9090: The...

RHEL 6 : kernel (RHSA-2014:1997)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 6 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2014:1997 advisory. A flaw was found in the way the Linux kernel handled GS segment register base switching when recovering from a SS stack segment fault on an...

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

Updated kernel packages that fix multiple security issues and several bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having Important security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base scores, which give detailed severity...

Ubuntu 14.10 : linux vulnerabilities (USN-2448-1)

An information leak in the Linux kernel was discovered that could leak the high 16 bits of the kernel stack address on 32-bit Kernel Virtual Machine KVM paravirt guests. A user in the guest OS could exploit this leak to obtain information that could potentially be used to aid in attacking the...

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : Linux kernel vulnerabilities (USN-2446-1)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-2446-1 advisory. Andy Lutomirski discovered that the Linux kernel does not properly handle faults associated with the Stack Segment SS register in the x86 architecture. A...

CentOS 7 : kernel (CESA-2014:1971)

Updated kernel packages that fix multiple security issues and several bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having Important security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base scores, which give detailed severity...

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS : linux vulnerabilities (USN-2443-1)

An information leak in the Linux kernel was discovered that could leak the high 16 bits of the kernel stack address on 32-bit Kernel Virtual Machine KVM paravirt guests. A user in the guest OS could exploit this leak to obtain information that could potentially be used to aid in attacking the...

USN-2444-1: Linux kernel (OMAP4) vulnerabilities

Rabin Vincent, Robert Swiecki, Russell King discovered that the ftrace subsystem of the Linux kernel does not properly handle private syscall numbers. A local user could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service OOPS. CVE-2014-7826 Rabin Vincent, Robert Swiecki, Russell Kinglaw discovered a...

USN-2443-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Andy Lutomirski discovered that the Linux kernel does not properly handle faults associated with the Stack Segment SS register in the x86 architecture. A local attacker could exploit this flaw to gain administrative privileges. CVE-2014-9322 An information leak in the Linux kernel was discovered...

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

Updated kernel packages that fix multiple security issues and several bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having Important security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base scores, which give detailed severity...

Amazon Linux AMI : kernel (ALAS-2014-455)

The sctpprocessparam function in net/sctp/smmakechunk.c in the SCTP implementation in the Linux kernel before 3.17.4, when ASCONF is used, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service NULL pointer dereference and system crash via a malformed INIT chunk. CVE-2014-7841 The pivotroot...

CVE-2014-3688

The SCTP implementation in the Linux kernel before 3.17.4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service memory consumption by triggering a large number of chunks in an association's output queue, as demonstrated by ASCONF probes, related to net/sctp/inqueue.c and net/sctp/smstatefuns.c...

CVE-2014-3688

The SCTP implementation in the Linux kernel before 3.17.4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service memory consumption by triggering a large number of chunks in an association's output queue, as demonstrated by ASCONF probes, related to net/sctp/inqueue.c and net/sctp/smstatefuns.c...

Code injection

The SCTP implementation in the Linux kernel before 3.17.4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service memory consumption by triggering a large number of chunks in an association's output queue, as demonstrated by ASCONF probes, related to net/sctp/inqueue.c and net/sctp/smstatefuns.c...

Null pointer dereference

The sctpprocessparam function in net/sctp/smmakechunk.c in the SCTP implementation in the Linux kernel before 3.17.4, when ASCONF is used, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service NULL pointer dereference and system crash via a malformed INIT chunk...

CVE-2014-3688

The SCTP implementation in the Linux kernel before 3.17.4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service memory consumption by triggering a large number of chunks in an association's output queue, as demonstrated by ASCONF probes, related to net/sctp/inqueue.c and net/sctp/smstatefuns.c...

CVE-2014-7841

The sctpprocessparam function in net/sctp/smmakechunk.c in the SCTP implementation in the Linux kernel before 3.17.4, when ASCONF is used, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service NULL pointer dereference and system crash via a malformed INIT chunk...