Debian DLA-1462-1 : wpa security update

The following vulnerability was discovered in wpasupplicant. CVE-2018-14526: | An issue was discovered in rsnsupp/wpa.c in wpasupplicant 2.0 | through 2.6. Under certain conditions, the integrity of EAPOL-Key | messages is not checked, leading to a decryption oracle. An attacker | within range of...

Fedora 27 : myrepos (2018-ee076d0530)

Fixes for CVE-2018-7032 rhbz1383312, rhbz1383313 Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system website. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues...

Ubuntu 18.04 LTS : LXC vulnerability (USN-3730-1)

The remote Ubuntu 18.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-3730-1 advisory. Matthias Gerstner discovered that LXC incorrectly handled the lxc-user-nic utility. A local attacker could possibly use this issue to open arbitrary files. Tenabl...

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS : Linux kernel (HWE) vulnerability (USN-3732-2)

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-3732-2 advisory. USN-3732-1 fixed vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel for Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. This update provides the corresponding updates for the Linux Hardware Enablement HWE...

Debian DLA-1460-1 : libmspack security update

It was discovered that there were several vulnerabilities in libsmpack, a library used to handle Microsoft compression formats. A remote attacker could craft malicious .CAB, .CHM or .KWAJ files and use these flaws to cause a denial of service via application crash, or potentially execute arbitrar...

Ubuntu 18.04 LTS : Linux kernel vulnerability (USN-3732-1)

The remote Ubuntu 18.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-3732-1 advisory. Juha-Matti Tilli discovered that the TCP implementation in the Linux kernel performed algorithmically expensive operations in some situations when handling incomi...

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS : libxcursor vulnerability (USN-3729-1)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-3729-1 advisory. It was discovered that libxcursor incorrectly handled certain files. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. Tenable h...

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS : LFTP vulnerability (USN-3731-1)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-3731-1 advisory. It was discovered that LFTP incorrectly handled certain files. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service...

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS : GnuPG vulnerability (USN-3733-1)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-3733-1 advisory. Daniel J. Bernstein, Joachim Breitner, Daniel Genkin, Leon Groot Bruinderink, Nadia Heninger, Tanja Lange, Christine van Vredendaal, and Yuval Yarom...

SUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : ceph (SUSE-SU-2018:2193-1)

This update for ceph fixes the following issues : - Update to version 12.2.7-420-gc0ef85b854 : - https://ceph.com/releases/12-2-7-luminous-released/ - luminous: osd: eternal stuck PG in 'unfoundrecovery' bsc1094932 - bluestore: db.slow used when db is not full bsc1092874 - CVE-2018-10861: Ensure...

VLC 3.0.x < 3.0.2 Heap Use-After-Free / Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

The version of VLC media player installed on the remote host is earlier than 3.0.2. It is, therefore, affected by a heap use-after-free vulnerability which could result in a remote code execution. C Tenable Network Security, Inc. include'compat.inc'; if description scriptid111518;...

Fedora 27 : polkit (2018-83df5dc658)

Security fix for CVE-2018-1116. Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system website. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues. %NASLMINLEVEL 7030...

SUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : libcgroup (SUSE-SU-2018:2143-1)

This update for libcgroup fixes the following issues: Security issue fixed : - CVE-2018-14348: Fix daemon that creates /var/log/cgred with mode 0666 bsc1100365. Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory. Tenable has...

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS : MySQL vulnerabilities (USN-3725-1)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-3725-1 advisory. Multiple security issues were discovered in MySQL and this update includes new upstream MySQL versions to fix these issues. MySQL...

SUSE SLES12 Security Update : kernel (SUSE-SU-2018:2106-1)

This update for the Linux Kernel 3.12.74-606488 fixes several issues. The following security issue was fixed : - CVE-2018-3665: System software utilizing Lazy FP state restore technique on systems using Intel Core-based microprocessors may potentially have allowed a local process to infer data fr...

Debian DLA-1450-1 : tomcat8 security update

Several security vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Tomcat servlet and JSP engine. CVE-2018-1304 The URL pattern of '' the empty string which exactly maps to the context root was not correctly handled in Apache Tomcat when used as part of a security constraint definition. This caused the...

SUSE SLES12 Security Update : kernel (SUSE-SU-2018:2113-1)

This update for the Linux Kernel 3.12.74-606460 fixes several issues. The following security issue was fixed : - CVE-2018-3665: System software utilizing Lazy FP state restore technique on systems using Intel Core-based microprocessors may potentially have allowed a local process to infer data fr...

SUSE SLES12 Security Update : kernel (SUSE-SU-2018:2112-1)

This update for the Linux Kernel 4.4.74-9238 fixes several issues. The following security issue was fixed : - CVE-2018-3665: System software utilizing Lazy FP state restore technique on systems using Intel Core-based microprocessors may potentially have allowed a local process to infer data from...

Slackware 14.2 : Slackware 14.2 kernel (SSA:2018-208-01) (Spectre)

New kernel packages are available for Slackware 14.2 to fix security issues. C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from Slackware Security Advisory 2018-208-01. The text itself is copyright C Slackware Linux, Inc. include'compat.inc...

Debian DLA-1451-1 : wireshark security update

CVE-2018-14339 CVE-2018-14340 CVE-2018-14341 CVE-2018-14342 CVE-2018-14343 CVE-2018-14368 CVE-2018-14369 Due to several flaws different dissectors could go in infinite loop or could be crashed by malicious packets. For Debian 8 'Jessie', these problems have been fixed in version...