Unbreakable Enterprise kernel security update

kernel-uek 3.8.13-118.16.2 - net: avoid signed overflows for SOSND|RCVBUFFORCE Eric Dumazet Orabug: 25203623 CVE-2016-9793 3.8.13-118.16.1 - nvme: Limit command retries Ashok Vairavan Orabug: 25374794 - tcp: fix use after free in tcpxmitretransmitqueue Eric Dumazet Orabug: 25374371 CVE-2016-6828 ...

Critical kernel security update: vulnerability fixes CVE-2016-7910, CVE-2016-7911 (and other), new kernel 2.6.32-042stab120.11

This update provides a new Virtuozzo 6.0 kernel 2.6.32-042stab120.11 based on the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.8 kernel 2.6.32-642.6.1.el6. The new kernel provides security and stability fixes. Vulnerability id: CVE-2016-1583 Stack overflow via ecryptfs and /proc/$pid/environ. It was found that...

Amazon Linux: Security Advisory (ALAS-2016-740)

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...

Code injection

The tcpchecksendhead function in include/net/tcp.h in the Linux kernel before 4.7.5 does not properly maintain certain SACK state after a failed data copy, which allows local users to cause a denial of service tcpxmitretransmitqueue use-after-free and system crash via a crafted SACK option...

Amazon Linux AMI : kernel (ALAS-2016-740)

A use after free vulnerability was found in tcpxmitretransmitqueue and other tcp functions. C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from Amazon Linux AMI Security Advisory ALAS-2016-740. include'compat.inc'; if description...

CVE-2016-6828

A use-after-free vulnerability was found in tcpxmitretransmitqueue and other tcp functions. This condition could allow an attacker to send an incorrect selective acknowledgment to existing connections, possibly resetting a connection...

Linux Kernel 'tcp_xmit_retransmit_queue()' function denial of service vulnerability

Linux kernel is an open source operating system. A denial of service vulnerability exists in the Linux Kernel 'tcpxmitretransmitqueue' function, which allows attackers to exploit the vulnerability to cause a denial of service...