Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : Linux kernel (Wily HWE) regression (USN-2908-5)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-2908-5 advisory. USN-2908-2 fixed vulnerabilities in the Ubuntu 15.10 Linux kernel backported to Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. An incorrect locking fix caused a regression that broke graphics...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-2908-5)

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...

USN-2908-5: Linux kernel (Wily HWE) regression

USN-2908-2 fixed vulnerabilities in the Ubuntu 15.10 Linux kernel backported to Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. An incorrect locking fix caused a regression that broke graphics displays for Ubuntu 14.04 LTS guests running the Ubuntu 15.10 backport kernel within VMWare virtual machines. This update fixes the...

Ubuntu Wily 'programs/pt_chown.c' Security Bypass Vulnerability

Ubuntu is a desktop-oriented GNU/Linux operating system developed by Canonical and the Ubuntu Foundation, with Wily being a development code name for Ubuntu. A security bypass vulnerability exists in Ubuntu Wily. A local attacker could use this vulnerability to bypass security restrictions and...

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : Linux kernel (Wily HWE) vulnerabilities (USN-2908-2)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-2908-2 advisory. halfdog discovered that OverlayFS, when mounting on top of a FUSE mount, incorrectly propagated file attributes, including setuid. A local unprivileged...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-2908-2)

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...

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : Linux kernel (Wily HWE) vulnerabilities (USN-2890-2)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-2890-2 advisory. It was discovered that a use-after-free vulnerability existed in the AFUNIX implementation in the Linux kernel. A local attacker could use crafted epollc...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-2872-2)

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...

USN-2872-2: Linux kernel (Wily HWE) vulnerability

Yevgeny Pats discovered that the session keyring implementation in the Linux kernel did not properly reference count when joining an existing session keyring. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service system crash or possibly execute arbitrary code with administrative privilege...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-2858-2)

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...

USN-2858-2: Linux kernel (Wily HWE) vulnerability

Nathan Williams discovered that overlayfs in the Linux kernel incorrectly handled setattr operations. A local unprivileged attacker could use this to create files with administrative permission attributes and execute arbitrary code with elevated privileges...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-2853-1)

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...

USN-2853-1: Linux kernel (Wily HWE) vulnerabilities

Felix Wilhelm discovered a race condition in the Xen paravirtualized drivers which can cause double fetch vulnerabilities. An attacker in the paravirtualized guest could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service crash the host or potentially execute arbitrary code on the host. CVE-2015-8550...

USN-2843-2: Linux kernel (Wily HWE) vulnerabilities

Jan Beulich discovered that the KVM svm hypervisor implementation in the Linux kernel did not properly catch Debug exceptions on AMD processors. An attacker in a guest virtual machine could use this to cause a denial of service system crash in the host OS. CVE-2015-8104 郭永刚 discovered that the pp...

CVE-2015-8317

The xmlParseXMLDecl function in parser.c in libxml2 before 2.9.3 allows context-dependent attackers to obtain sensitive information via an 1 unterminated encoding value or 2 incomplete XML declaration in XML data, which triggers an out-of-bounds heap read...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-2807-1)

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...

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : Linux kernel (Wily HWE) vulnerability (USN-2807-1)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-2807-1 advisory. Ben Serebrin discovered that the KVM hypervisor implementation in the Linux kernel did not properly catch Alignment Check exceptions. An attacker in a guest virtu...

USN-2807-1: Linux kernel (Wily HWE) vulnerability

Ben Serebrin discovered that the KVM hypervisor implementation in the Linux kernel did not properly catch Alignment Check exceptions. An attacker in a guest virtual machine could use this to cause a denial of service system crash in the host OS...

CVE-2015-2326

The pcrecompile2 function in PCRE before 8.37 allows context-dependent attackers to compile incorrect code and cause a denial of service out-of-bounds read via regular expression with a group containing both a forward referencing subroutine call and a recursive back reference, as demonstrated by...