AIX : Multiple Vulnerabilities (IJ53001)

The version of AIX installed on the remote host is prior to APAR IJ53001. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the IJ53001 advisory. - IBM AIX 7.2, 7.3, VIOS 3.1, and 4.1 could allow a non-privileged local user to exploit a vulnerability in the TCP/IP kernel...

RHEL 8 : shim and fwupd (RHSA-2021:3675)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2021:3675 advisory. The shim package contains a first-stage UEFI boot loader that handles chaining to a trusted full boot loader under secure boot environments...

SUSE-SU-2020:3798-1 Security update for the Linux Kernel

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 15-SP1 RT kernel was updated to receive various security and bugfixes. The following security bugs were fixed: - CVE-2018-20669: Fixed an improper check i915gemexecbuffer2ioctl in drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915gemexecbuffer.c bsc1122971. - CVE-2019-20934: Fixed a use-after-fr...

SUSE-SU-2020:3717-1 Security update for the Linux Kernel

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 SP5 kernel was updated to receive various security and bugfixes. The following security bugs were fixed: - CVE-2020-15436: Fixed a use after free vulnerability in fs/blockdev.c which could have allowed local users to gain privileges or cause a denial of service...

SUSE-SU-2018:4069-1 Security update for the Linux Kernel

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 SP4 kernel was updated to receive various security and bugfixes. The following security bugs were fixed: - CVE-2018-19824: A local user could exploit a use-after-free in the ALSA driver by supplying a malicious USB Sound device with zero interfaces that is mishandled ...

SUSE-SU-2018:0347-1 Security update for the Linux Kernel (Live Patch 3 for SLE 12 SP3)

This update for the Linux Kernel 4.4.82-69 fixes several issues. The following security issues were fixed: - CVE-2017-17712: The rawsendmsg function had a race condition that lead to uninitialized stack pointer usage. This allowed a local user to execute code and gain privileges bsc1073230. -...

MGASA-2017-0346 Updated kernel-tmb packages fix security vulnerabilities

This kernel-tmb update is based on upstream 4.4.88 and fixes at least the following security issues: net/xfrm/xfrmpolicy.c in the Linux kernel through 4.12.3, when CONFIGXFRMMIGRATE is enabled, does not ensure that the dir value of xfrmuserpolicyid is XFRMPOLICYMAX or less, which allows local use...

MGASA-2017-0347 Updated kernel-linus packages fix security vulnerabilities

This kernel-öinus update is based on upstream 4.4.88 and fixes at least the following security issues: net/xfrm/xfrmpolicy.c in the Linux kernel through 4.12.3, when CONFIGXFRMMIGRATE is enabled, does not ensure that the dir value of xfrmuserpolicyid is XFRMPOLICYMAX or less, which allows local...

CVE-2014-0145

Multiple buffer overflows in QEMU before 1.7.2 and 2.x before 2.0.0, allow local users to cause a denial of service crash or possibly execute arbitrary code via a large 1 L1 table in the qcow2snapshotloadtmp in the QCOW 2 block driver block/qcow2-snapshot.c or 2 uncompressed chunk, 3 chunk length...

SUSE-SU-2017:0229-1 Security update for Linux Kernel Live Patch 9 for SLE 12 SP1

This update for the Linux Kernel 3.12.67-606418 fixes several issues. The following security bugs were fixed: - CVE-2016-9794: Race condition in the sndpcmperiodelapsed function in sound/core/pcmlib.c in the ALSA subsystem in the Linux kernel allowed local users to cause a denial of service...

SUSE-SU-2016:2007-1 Security update for Linux Kernel Live Patch 3 for SLE 12 SP1

This update for the Linux Kernel 3.12.53-6030 fixes the several issues. These security issues were fixed: - CVE-2016-4470: The keyrejectandlink function in security/keys/key.c in the Linux kernel did not ensure that a certain data structure is initialized, which allowed local users to cause a...

SUSE-SU-2016:2011-1 Security update for Linux Kernel Live Patch 6 for SLE 12 SP1

This update for the Linux Kernel 3.12.59-6045 fixes the several issues. These security issues were fixed: - CVE-2016-4470: The keyrejectandlink function in security/keys/key.c in the Linux kernel did not ensure that a certain data structure is initialized, which allowed local users to cause a...

SUSE-SU-2016:2006-1 Security update for Linux Kernel Live Patch 12 for SLE 12

This update for the Linux Kernel 3.12.55-5242 fixes several issues. The following security bugs were fixed: - CVE-2016-4470: The keyrejectandlink function in security/keys/key.c in the Linux kernel did not ensure that a certain data structure is initialized, which allowed local users to cause a...

MGASA-2015-0213 Updated pam packages fix security vulnerabilities

Updated pam packages fix security vulnerabilities: The pamuserdb module for Pam uses a case-insensitive method to compare hashed passwords, which makes it easier for attackers to guess the password via a brute force attack CVE-2013-7041. Multiple directory traversal vulnerabilities in...

CVE-2015-2151

The x86 emulator in Xen 3.2.x through 4.5.x does not properly ignore segment overrides for instructions with register operands, which allows local guest users to obtain sensitive information, cause a denial of service memory corruption, or possibly execute arbitrary code via unspecified vectors...

SUSE-RU-2015:0621-1 Security update for Linux kernel

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 Service Pack 3 kernel has been updated to fix various bugs and security issues. The following security bugs have been fixed: CVE-2014-1739: The mediadeviceenumentities function in drivers/media/media-device.c in the Linux kernel before 3.14.6 does not initialize a...

MGASA-2014-0330 Updated kernel-linus package fixes security vulnerabilities

Updated kernel-linus provides upstream 3.10.51 kernel and fixes the following security issues: Array index error in the aioreadeventsring function in fs/aio.c in the Linux kernel through 3.15.1 allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel memory via a large head value...

MGASA-2014-0337 Updated kernel-tmb package fixes security vulnerabilities

Updated kernel-tmb provides upstream 3.12.26 kernel and fixes the following security issues: Array index error in the aioreadeventsring function in fs/aio.c in the Linux kernel through 3.15.1 allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel memory via a large head value CVE-2014-020...

MGASA-2014-0273 Updated kernel packages fixes security vulnerabilities

The kernel has been updated to the upstream 3.10.44 longterm kernel, and fixes the following security issues: The Netlink implementation in the Linux kernel through 3.14.1 does not provide a mechanism for authorizing socket operations based on the opener of a socket, which allows local users to...

MGASA-2014-0235 Updated kernel-linus packages fix multiple security vulnerabilities

Updated kernel-linus provides upstream 3.10.40 kernel and fixes the following security issues: The microcode on AMD 16h 00h through 0Fh processors does not properly handle the interaction between locked instructions and write-combined memory types, which allows local users to cause a denial of...