BitTorrent Fixes Reflective DDoS Attack Security Flaw

Two weeks ago, we reported how a serious flaw in the popular peer-to-peer BitTorrent file sharing protocols could be exploited to carry out a devastating distributed denial of service DDoS attack, allowing lone hackers with limited resources to take down large websites. Good news is that the...

BitTorrent Patches DDoS Vulnerability

BitTorrent today announced that a patch has been rolled out in the libuTP protocol used by many of its clients, fixing a vulnerability that allows attackers to carry out distributed reflective denial of service attacks. The issue was revealed in a paper and presentation at the recent USENIX...

USN-2714-1: Linux kernel (OMAP4) vulnerabilities

Marcelo Ricardo Leitner discovered a race condition in the Linux kernel's SCTP address configuration lists when using Address Configuration Change ASCONF options on a socket. An unprivileged local user could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service system crash. CVE-2015-3212 A flaw was...

USN-2713-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Marcelo Ricardo Leitner discovered a race condition in the Linux kernel's SCTP address configuration lists when using Address Configuration Change ASCONF options on a socket. An unprivileged local user could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service system crash. CVE-2015-3212 A flaw was...

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS : linux vulnerabilities (USN-2713-1)

Marcelo Ricardo Leitner discovered a race condition in the Linux kernel's SCTP address configuration lists when using Address Configuration Change ASCONF options on a socket. An unprivileged local user could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service system crash. CVE-2015-3212 A flaw was...

OracleVM 3.3 : kernel-uek (OVMSA-2015-0114)

The remote OracleVM system is missing necessary patches to address critical security updates : - udp: fix behavior of wrong checksums Eric Dumazet Orabug: 21628850 CVE-2015-5364 CVE-2015-5366 %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The package checks in this plugin were extracted fro...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-2714-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2015 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...

Oracle Linux 6 / 7 : Unbreakable Enterprise kernel (ELSA-2015-3071)

The remote Oracle Linux 6 / 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2015-3071 advisory. kernel-uek 3.8.13-98.1.2 - udp: fix behavior of wrong checksums Eric Dumazet Orabug: 21628850 CVE-2015-5364 CVE-2015-5366 Tenable has extracted the...

Oracle Linux 5 / 6 : Unbreakable Enterprise kernel (ELSA-2015-3072)

The remote Oracle Linux 5 / 6 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2015-3072 advisory. 2.6.39-400.250.11 - udp: fix behavior of wrong checksums Eric Dumazet Orabug: 21628851 CVE-2015-5364 CVE-2015-5366 Tenable has extracted the...

Oracle Linux 5 / 6 : Unbreakable Enterprise kernel (ELSA-2015-3073)

The remote Oracle Linux 5 / 6 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2015-3073 advisory. kernel-uek 2.6.32-400.37.11uek - udp: fix behavior of wrong checksums Eric Dumazet Orabug: 21628852 CVE-2015-5364 CVE-2015-5366 Tenable has extract...

Security update for the Linux Kernel (important)

The openSUSE 13.2 kernel was updated to receive various security and bugfixes. Following security bugs were fixed: - CVE-2015-3290: A flaw was found in the way the Linux kernels nested NMI handler and espfix64 functionalities interacted during NMI processing. A local, unprivileged user could use...

kernel, perf, python security update

CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-2015:1623 Updated kernel packages that fix two security issues and several bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having Important security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS...

Unbreakable Enterprise kernel security update

kernel-uek 3.8.13-98.1.2 - udp: fix behavior of wrong checksums Eric Dumazet Orabug: 21628850 CVE-2015-5364 CVE-2015-5366...

Oracle Linux 6 : kernel (ELSA-2015-1623)

The remote Oracle Linux 6 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2015-1623 advisory. - net udp: fix behavior of wrong checksums Denys Vlasenko 1240758 1240759 CVE-2015-5364 CVE-2015-5366 Tenable has extracted the preceding description...

CentOS Update for kernel CESA-2015:1623 centos6

Check the version of kernel SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2015 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 scriptoid"1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.882245";...

Unbreakable Enterprise kernel security update

kernel-uek 2.6.32-400.37.11uek - udp: fix behavior of wrong checksums Eric Dumazet Orabug: 21628852 CVE-2015-5364 CVE-2015-5366...

Unbreakable Enterprise kernel security update

2.6.39-400.250.11 - udp: fix behavior of wrong checksums Eric Dumazet Orabug: 21628851 CVE-2015-5364 CVE-2015-5366...

Scientific Linux Security Update : kernel on SL6.x i386/x86_64 (20150813)

Two flaws were found in the way the Linux kernel's networking implementation handled UDP packets with incorrect checksum values. A remote attacker could potentially use these flaws to trigger an infinite loop in the kernel, resulting in a denial of service on the system, or cause a denial of...

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

Updated kernel packages that fix two security issues and several bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having Important security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base scores, which give detailed severity ratings, a...

kernel security and bug fix update

2.6.32-573.3.1 - md Revert 'dm: don't schedule delayed run of the queue if nothing to do' Mike Snitzer 1246095 1240767 - md Revert 'dm: only run the queue on completion if congested or no requests pending' Mike Snitzer 1246095 1240767 2.6.32-573.2.1 - net udp: fix behavior of wrong checksums Deny...