OracleVM 3.3 : Unbreakable / etc (OVMSA-2017-0144)

The remote OracleVM system is missing necessary patches to address critical security updates : - l2tp: fix racy SOCKZAPPED flag check in l2tpip,6bind Guillaume Nault Orabug: 26586047 CVE-2016-10200 - xfs: fix two memory leaks in xfsattrlist.c error paths Mateusz Guzik Orabug: 26586022 CVE-2016-96...

Oracle Linux 6 / 7 : Unbreakable Enterprise kernel (ELSA-2017-3606)

The remote Oracle Linux 6 / 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2017-3606 advisory. - l2tp: fix racy SOCKZAPPED flag check in l2tpip,6bind Guillaume Nault Orabug: 26586047 CVE-2016-10200 - xfs: fix two memory leaks in xfsattrlist.c...

Oracle Linux 5 / 6 : Unbreakable Enterprise kernel (ELSA-2017-3607)

The remote Oracle Linux 5 / 6 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2017-3607 advisory. - l2tp: fix racy SOCKZAPPED flag check in l2tpip,6bind Guillaume Nault Orabug: 26586050 CVE-2016-10200 - xfs: fix two memory leaks in xfsattrlist.c...

Unbreakable Enterprise kernel security update

2.6.39-400.297.6 - l2tp: fix racy SOCKZAPPED flag check in l2tpip,6bind Guillaume Nault Orabug: 26586050 CVE-2016-10200 - xfs: fix two memory leaks in xfsattrlist.c error paths Mateusz Guzik Orabug: 26586024 CVE-2016-9685 - KEYS: Disallow keyrings beginning with '.' to be joined as session keyrin...

Unbreakable Enterprise kernel security update

kernel-uek 3.8.13-118.19.4 - l2tp: fix racy SOCKZAPPED flag check in l2tpip,6bind Guillaume Nault Orabug: 26586047 CVE-2016-10200 - xfs: fix two memory leaks in xfsattrlist.c error paths Mateusz Guzik Orabug: 26586022 CVE-2016-9685 - KEYS: Disallow keyrings beginning with '.' to be joined as...

RHEL 7 : kernel (RHSA-2017:2473)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2017:2473 advisory. The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system. Security Fixes: A race condition was found in the Linux kernel,...

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

An update for kernel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from th...

kernel: Memory leaks in xfs_attr_list.c error paths

A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's implementation of XFS file attributes. Two memory leaks were detected in xfsattrshortformlist and xfsattr3leaflistint when running a docker container backed by xfs/overlay2. A dedicated attacker could possible exhaust all memory and create a denial of servic...

kernel: race condition between direct and memory-mapped I/O in fs/xfs/xfs_aops.c

It was found that the Linux kernel can hit a BUGON statement in the xfsgetblocks in the fs/xfs/xfsaops.c because of a race condition between direct and memory-mapped I/O associated with a hole in a file that is handled with BUGON instead of an I/O failure. This allows a local unprivileged attacke...

kernel: Memory leaks in xfs_attr_list.c error paths

A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's implementation of XFS file attributes. Two memory leaks were detected in xfsattrshortformlist and xfsattr3leaflistint when running a docker container backed by xfs/overlay2. A dedicated attacker could possible exhaust all memory and create a denial of servic...

Unbreakable Enterprise kernel security update

kernel-uek 4.1.12-94.5.7 - Revert 'net/rds: Revert 'RDS: add reconnect retry scheme for stalled connections'' Ajaykumar Hotchandani Orabug: 26444722 - Revert 'net/rds: use different workqueue for baseconn' Ajaykumar Hotchandani Orabug: 26444722 - Revert 'net/rds: determine active/passive connecti...

CentOS 6 : kernel (CESA-2017:1723)

An update for kernel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from th...

kernel, perf, python security update

CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-2017:1723 An update for kernel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity...

RedHat Update for kernel RHSA-2017:1723-01

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2017 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...

Scientific Linux Security Update : kernel on SL6.x i386/x86_64 (20170711)

Security Fixes : - The NFSv2 and NFSv3 server implementations in the Linux kernel through 4.10.13 lacked certain checks for the end of a buffer. A remote attacker could trigger a pointer-arithmetic error or possibly cause other unspecified impacts using crafted requests related to fs/nfsd/nfs3xdr...

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

An update for kernel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from th...

kernel security and bug fix update

2.6.32-696.6.3.OL6 - Update genkey bug 25599697 2.6.32-696.6.3 - mm allow JVM to implement its own stack guard pages Larry Woodman 1466667 1464237 - mm enlarge stack guard gap Larry Woodman 1466667 1464237 - Revert: mm enlarge stack guard gap Larry Woodman 1466667 1464237 2.6.32-696.6.2 - mm...

Security update for the Linux Kernel (important)

The openSUSE Leap 42.2 kernel was updated to 4.4.49 to receive various security and bugfixes. The following security bugs were fixed: - CVE-2017-5986: A userlevel triggerable BUGON on sctpwaitforsndbuf was fixed. bsc1025235 - CVE-2017-5970: The ipv4pktinfoprepare function in net/ipv4/ipsockglue.c...

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

An update for kernel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.1 Extended Update Support. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for...

RHEL 7 : kernel (RHSA-2017:0270)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2017:0270 advisory. The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system. Security Fixes: A use-after-free vulnerability was found in the...