Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS : libvirt vulnerability and update (USN-3680-1)

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-3680-1 advisory. Ken Johnson and Jann Horn independently discovered that microprocessors utilizing speculative execution of a memory read may allo...

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS : Firefox vulnerability (USN-3682-1)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-3682-1 advisory. A heap buffer overflow was discovered in Skia. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted website, an attacker could...

SUSE SLES12 Security Update : xen (SUSE-SU-2018:1658-1) (Meltdown) (Spectre)

This update for xen fixes several issues. These security issues were fixed : - CVE-2018-3639: Prevent attackers with local user access from extracting information via a side-channel analysis, aka Speculative Store Bypass SSB, Variant 4 bsc1092631. - CVE-2017-5753,CVE-2017-5715,CVE-2017-5754:...

Scientific Linux Security Update : plexus-archiver on SL7.x (noarch) (20180612)

Security Fixes : - plexus-archiver: arbitrary file write vulnerability / arbitrary code execution using a specially crafted zip file CVE-2018-1002200 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text is C Scientific Linux. include'compat.inc'; if description scriptid110508; scriptversion"1.5"...

SUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : ucode-intel (SUSE-SU-2018:1661-1)

This update for ucode-intel fixes the following issues: Update to version 20180425 bsc1091836 Fix provided for : - GLK B0 6-7a-1/01 0000001e-00000022 Pentium Silver N/J5xxx, Celeron N/J4xxx - Name microcodes which are not allowed to load late with a .early suffix Note that Tenable Network Securit...

RHEL 7 : Red Hat Virtualization (RHSA-2018:1820)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2018:1820 advisory. The redhat-virtualization-host packages provide the Red Hat Virtualization Host. These packages include redhat-release-virtualization-host,...

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS : Linux kernel (HWE) vulnerabilities (USN-3677-2)

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-3677-2 advisory. USN-3677-1 fixed vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel for Ubuntu 17.10. This update provides the corresponding updates for the Linux Hardware Enablement H...

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS : Linux kernel (Azure) vulnerabilities (USN-3678-2)

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-3678-2 advisory. Wen Xu discovered that the ext4 filesystem implementation in the Linux kernel did not properly handle corrupted meta data in some situations. An attacker...

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS : GnuPG vulnerabilities (USN-3675-1)

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-3675-1 advisory. Marcus Brinkmann discovered that during decryption or verification, GnuPG did not properly filter out terminal sequences when...

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS : Linux kernel vulnerabilities (USN-3676-1)

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-3676-1 advisory. Wen Xu discovered that the ext4 filesystem implementation in the Linux kernel did not properly handle corrupted meta data in some situations. An attacker...

Debian DSA-4221-1 : libvncserver - security update

Alexander Peslyak discovered that insufficient input sanitising of RFB packets in LibVNCServer could result in the disclosure of memory contents. C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from Debian Security Advisory DSA-4221. The text...

Fedora 27 : qt3 (2018-0a0da2f3b7)

This update fixes CVE-2016-10040, a stack overflow in QXmlSimpleReader due to a too lenient entityCharacterLimit in our version of the patch for CVE-2013-4549. The limit was increased from the upstream 1024 to 65536 to address QTBUG-35459, an issue where the security fix was breaking existing...

SUSE SLES11 Security Update : xen (SUSE-SU-2018:1603-1) (Meltdown) (Spectre)

This update for xen fixes several issues. These security issues were fixed : - CVE-2018-3639: Prevent attackers with local user access from extracting information via a side-channel analysis, aka Speculative Store Bypass SSB, Variant 4 bsc1092631. - CVE-2017-5753,CVE-2017-5715,CVE-2017-5754:...

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS : Unbound vulnerability (USN-3673-1)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-3673-1 advisory. Ralph Dolmans and Karst Koymans discovered that Unbound did not properly handle certain NSEC records. An attacker could use this to to pro...

Fortinet FortiGate <= 5.2.x / 5.4.x < 5.4.9 / 5.6.x < 5.6.3 Multiple Vulnerabilities (FG-IR-17-231, FG-IR-17-245 and FG-IR-17-172)

The remote host is running FortiOS 5.2.x or prior, 5.4.x prior to 5.4.9, or 5.6.x prior to 5.6.3. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities. C Tenable Network Security, Inc. include'compat.inc'; if description scriptid110415; scriptversion"1.9";...

SUSE SLES12 Security Update : kernel (SUSE-SU-2018:1509-1)

This update for the Linux Kernel 3.12.74-606469 fixes several issues. The following security issues were fixed : - CVE-2017-13166: An elevation of privilege vulnerability in the kernel v4l2 video driver was fixed. bsc1085447. - CVE-2018-8897: A statement in the System Programming Guide of the Int...

SUSE SLES12 Security Update : kernel (SUSE-SU-2018:1528-1)

This update for the Linux Kernel 3.12.74-606482 fixes several issues. The following security issues were fixed : - CVE-2017-13166: An elevation of privilege vulnerability in the kernel v4l2 video driver was fixed. bsc1085447. - CVE-2018-8897: A statement in the System Programming Guide of the Int...

SUSE SLES12 Security Update : kernel (SUSE-SU-2018:1543-1)

This update for the Linux Kernel 3.12.61-52119 fixes several issues. The following security issues were fixed : - CVE-2017-13166: An elevation of privilege vulnerability in the kernel v4l2 video driver was fixed. bsc1085447. - CVE-2018-8897: A statement in the System Programming Guide of the Inte...

Debian DLA-1390-1 : procps security update

The Qualys Research Labs discovered multiple vulnerabilities in procps, a set of command line and full screen utilities for browsing procfs. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems : CVE-2018-1122 top read its configuration from the current working...

Debian DLA-1392-1 : linux security update

Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Linux kernel that may lead to a denial of service. CVE-2018-1093 Wen Xu reported that a crafted ext4 filesystem image could trigger an out-of-bounds read in the ext4validblockbitmap function. A local user able to mount arbitrary filesystems coul...