Denial Of Service (DoS)

Linux kernel is vulnerable to denial of service. A user-after-free UAF occurs in sysmqnotify due to the sock pointer not being set to NULL upon entry into the retry logic, allowing an attacker to cause a denial of service condition during a user-space close of a Netlink socket...

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

An update for kernel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Extended Lifecycle Support. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for...

Oracle Linux 5 / 6 : Unbreakable Enterprise kernel (ELSA-2017-3633)

The remote Oracle Linux 5 / 6 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2017-3633 advisory. - mqueue: fix a use-after-free in sysmqnotify Cong Wang Orabug: 26643562 CVE-2017-11176 - ipv6: avoid overflow of offset in ip6find1stfragopt Sabri...

Unbreakable Enterprise kernel security update

kernel-uek 3.8.13-118.19.10 - mqueue: fix a use-after-free in sysmqnotify Cong Wang Orabug: 26643556 CVE-2017-11176 3.8.13-118.19.9 - ipv6: avoid overflow of offset in ip6find1stfragopt Sabrina Dubroca Orabug: 27011273 CVE-2017-7542 - packet: fix tpreserve race in packetsetring Willem de Bruijn...