PT-2017-10389

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Xen versions 3.3.x through 4.7.x Description The issue allows local HVM guest OS users to obtain sensitive information from host stack memory. This is achieved through the CMPXCHG8B emulation on x86 systems, where a supposedly-ignored operand...

openSUSE Security Update : the Linux Kernel (openSUSE-2016-1426)

The openSUSE Leap 42.2 kernel was updated to 4.4.36 to receive various security and bugfixes. The following security bugs were fixed : - CVE-2015-1350: The VFS subsystem in the Linux kernel 3.x provides an incomplete set of requirements for setattr operations that underspecifies removing extended...

MGASA-2016-0411 Updated kernel-linus-4.4.32 packages fix security vulnerability

This update is based on upstream 4.4.32 and fixes alteast the following security issues: Vladimir Bene discovered an unbounded recursion in the VLAN and TEB Generic Receive Offload GRO processing implementations in the Linux kernel, A remote attacker could use this to cause a stack corruption,...

Updated kernel-tmb-4.4.32 packages fix security vulnerability

This update is based on upstream 4.4.32 and fixes alteast the following security issues: The prockeysshow function in security/keys/proc.c in the Linux kernel through 4.8.2, when the GNU Compiler Collection gcc stack protector is enabled, uses an incorrect buffer size for certain timeout data,...

Security update for the Linux Kernel (important)

The openSUSE 13.1 kernel was updated to 3.12.67 to receive various security and bugfixes. The following security bugs were fixed: - CVE-2013-5634: arch/arm/kvm/arm.c in the Linux kernel on the ARM platform, when KVM is used, allowed host OS users to cause a denial of service NULL pointer...

PT-2016-7816

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Linux kernel versions prior to 4.8.12 Description The issue allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel stack memory via a crafted application due to improper initialization of Code Segment CS in certain error cases...

SUSE SLES11 Security Update : kernel (SUSE-SU-2016:2976-1)

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 SP4 kernel was updated to receive various security and bugfixes. For the PowerPC64 a new 'bigmem' flavor has been added to support big Power machines. FATE319026 The following security bugs were fixed : - CVE-2016-7042: The prockeysshow function in security/keys/proc....

CVE-2016-9178

The getuserasmex macro in arch/x86/include/asm/uaccess.h in the Linux kernel before 4.7.5 does not initialize a certain integer variable, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel stack memory by triggering failure of a getuserex call...

CVE-2016-8650

CVE-2016-8650 affects the Linux kernel: the mpi_powm function in lib/mpi/mpi-pow.c can fail to allocate memory for limb data, permitting a local attacker to trigger a denial of service (stack memory corruption/panic) via an add_key RSA operation with a zero exponent. Public advisories (F5) confir...

CVE-2016-8650

The mpipowm function in lib/mpi/mpi-pow.c in the Linux kernel through 4.8.11 does not ensure that memory is allocated for limb data, which allows local users to cause a denial of service stack memory corruption and panic via an addkey system call for an RSA key with a zero exponent...

CVE-2016-9178

The getuserasmex macro in arch/x86/include/asm/uaccess.h in the Linux kernel before 4.7.5 does not initialize a certain integer variable, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel stack memory by triggering failure of a getuserex call...

CVE-2016-9178: Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

The getuserasmex macro in arch/x86/include/asm/uaccess.h in the Linux kernel before 4.7.5 does not initialize a certain integer variable, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel stack memory by triggering failure of a getuserex call...

CVE-2016-8650: Improper Input Validation

The mpipowm function in lib/mpi/mpi-pow.c in the Linux kernel through 4.8.11 does not ensure that memory is allocated for limb data, which allows local users to cause a denial of service stack memory corruption and panic via an addkey system call for an RSA key with a zero exponent...

SUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : kernel (SUSE-SU-2016:2912-1)

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 kernel was updated to 3.12.67 to receive various security and bugfixes. The following security bugs were fixed : - CVE-2016-7042: The prockeysshow function in security/keys/proc.c in the Linux kernel used an incorrect buffer size for certain timeout data, which allowe...

CVE-2016-9178

The getuserasmex macro in arch/x86/include/asm/uaccess.h in the Linux kernel before 4.7.5 does not initialize a certain integer variable, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel stack memory by triggering failure of a getuserex call...

UBUNTU-CVE-2016-9178

The getuserasmex macro in arch/x86/include/asm/uaccess.h in the Linux kernel before 4.7.5 does not initialize a certain integer variable, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel stack memory by triggering failure of a getuserex call...

Updated kernel-4.4.32 packages fixes security vulnerabilities

This update is based on upstream 4.4.32 and fixes at least the following security issues: The prockeysshow function in security/keys/proc.c in the Linux kernel through 4.8.2, when the GNU Compiler Collection gcc stack protector is enabled, uses an incorrect buffer size for certain timeout data,...

CVE-2016-9178

The getuserasmex macro in arch/x86/include/asm/uaccess.h in the Linux kernel before 4.7.5 does not initialize a certain integer variable, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel stack memory by triggering failure of a getuserex call...

CVE-2016-7042

The prockeysshow function in security/keys/proc.c in the Linux kernel through 4.8.2, when the GNU Compiler Collection gcc stack protector is enabled, uses an incorrect buffer size for certain timeout data, which allows local users to cause a denial of service stack memory corruption and panic by...

CVE-2016-7042

The prockeysshow function in security/keys/proc.c in the Linux kernel through 4.8.2, when the GNU Compiler Collection gcc stack protector is enabled, uses an incorrect buffer size for certain timeout data, which allows local users to cause a denial of service stack memory corruption and panic by...