Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS : shadow vulnerabilities (USN-3276-1)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-3276-1 advisory. Sebastian Krahmer discovered integer overflows in shadow utilities. A local attacker could possibly cause them to crash or potentially gain...

SUSE SLES12 Security Update : xen (SUSE-SU-2017:1148-1)

This update for xen fixes several issues. These security issues were fixed : - CVE-2017-7980: An out-of-bounds r/w access issues in the Cirrus CLGD 54xx VGA Emulator support allowed privileged user inside guest to use this flaw to crash the Qemu process resulting in DoS or potentially execute...

SUSE SLES11 Security Update : xen (SUSE-SU-2017:1146-1)

This update for xen fixes several security issues : - A malicious 64-bit PV guest may be able to access all of system memory, allowing for all of privilege escalation, host crashes, and information leaks by placing a IRET hypercall in the middle of a multicall batch XSA-213, bsc1034843 - A...

EulerOS 2.0 SP1 : util-linux (EulerOS-SA-2017-1083)

According to the version of the util-linux packages installed, the EulerOS installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerability : - A race condition was found in the way su handled the management of child processes. A local authenticated attacker could use this flaw to kill...

EulerOS 2.0 SP2 : util-linux (EulerOS-SA-2017-1084)

According to the version of the util-linux packages installed, the EulerOS installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerability : - A race condition was found in the way su handled the management of child processes. A local authenticated attacker could use this flaw to kill...

Amazon Linux AMI : util-linux (ALAS-2017-823)

Sending SIGKILL to other processes with root privileges via su : A race condition was found in the way su handled the management of child processes. A local authenticated attacker could use this flaw to kill other processes with root privileges under specific conditions.CVE-2017-2616 C Tenable...

Medium: util-linux

Issue Overview: Sending SIGKILL to other processes with root privileges via su: A race condition was found in the way su handled the management of child processes. A local authenticated attacker could use this flaw to kill other processes with root privileges under specific conditions.CVE-2017-26...

SUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : tcpdump, libpcap (SUSE-SU-2017:1110-1)

This update for tcpdump to version 4.9.0 and libpcap to version 1.8.1 fixes the several issues. These security issues were fixed in tcpdump : - CVE-2016-7922: The AH parser in tcpdump had a buffer overflow in print-ah.c:ahprint bsc1020940. - CVE-2016-7923: The ARP parser in tcpdump had a buffer...

SUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : tigervnc (SUSE-SU-2017:1094-1)

This update for tigervnc provides the several fixes. These security issues were fixed : - CVE-2017-7392, CVE-2017-7396: Client can cause leak in VNC server bsc1031886 - CVE-2017-7395: Authenticated VNC client can crash VNC server bsc1031877 - CVE-2017-7394: Client can crash or block VNC server...

CentOS 7 : util-linux (CESA-2017:0907)

An update for util-linux is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from...

libblkid, libmount, libuuid, util, uuidd security update

CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-2017:0907 An update for util-linux is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severi...

Scientific Linux Security Update : util-linux on SL7.x x86_64 (20170412)

Security Fixes : - A race condition was found in the way su handled the management of child processes. A local authenticated attacker could use this flaw to kill other processes with root privileges under specific conditions. CVE-2017-2616 Bug Fixes : - The 'findmnt --target ' command prints all...

RHEL 7 : util-linux (RHSA-2017:0907)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2017:0907 advisory. The util-linux packages contain a large variety of low-level system utilities that are necessary for a Linux system to function. Among others, these...

RedHat Update for util-linux RHSA-2017:0907-01

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...

util-linux: Sending SIGKILL to other processes with root privileges via su

A race condition was found in the way su handled the management of child processes. A local authenticated attacker could use this flaw to kill other processes with root privileges under specific conditions...

Moderate: Red Hat Security Advisory: util-linux security and bug fix update

An update for util-linux is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from...

OracleVM 3.3 / 3.4 : coreutils (OVMSA-2017-0052)

The remote OracleVM system is missing necessary patches to address critical security updates : - clean up empty file if cp is failed Orabug 15973168 - pure rebuild to bring back support for aclextendedfilenofollow on x8664 - su: deny killing other processes with root privileges CVE-2017-2616 - fi...

Oracle Linux 6 : coreutils (ELSA-2017-0654)

The remote Oracle Linux 6 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ELSA-2017-0654 advisory. - su: deny killing other processes with root privileges CVE-2017-2616 Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Oracle Linux...

coreutils security and bug fix update

8.4-46.0.1 - clean up empty file if cp is failed Orabug 15973168 8.4-46 - pure rebuild to bring back support for aclextendedfilenofollow on x8664 8.4-45 - su: deny killing other processes with root privileges CVE-2017-2616 8.4-44 - fix the functionality of 'sort -h -k ...' in multi-byte locales...

CentOS 6 : coreutils (CESA-2017:0654)

An update for coreutils is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from...