Ubuntu Security Notice 3364-3 - It was discovered that the Linux kernel did not properly initialize a Wake- on-Lan data structure. A local attacker could use this to expose sensitive information. It was discovered that the Linux kernel did not properly restrict access to /proc/iomem. A local attacker could use this to expose sensitive information. Alexander Potapenko discovered a race condition in the Advanced Linux Sound Architecture subsystem in the Linux kernel. A local attacker could use this to expose sensitive information. Various other issues were also addressed.
6d424501523a4eae735e5215177c70f3It was discovered that a use-after-free flaw existed in the filesystem encryption subsystem in the Linux kernel. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service (system crash). Jann Horn discovered that the extended Berkeley Packet Filter (eBPF) implementation in the Linux kernel could overflow reference counters on systems with more than 32GB of physical ram and with RLIMIT_MEMLOCK set to infinite. A local unprivileged attacker could use to create a use-after- free situation, causing a denial of service (system crash) or possibly gain administrative privileges. Various other issues were also addressed.
cf9eb0b35f581391cfa449654007aaadUbuntu Security Notice 3364-2 - USN-3364-1 fixed vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel for Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. This update provides the corresponding updates for the Linux Hardware Enablement kernel from Ubuntu 16.04 LTS for Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. It was discovered that the Linux kernel did not properly initialize a Wake- on-Lan data structure. A local attacker could use this to expose sensitive information. Various other issues were also addressed.
8cc7102ebe0dfa9c4cdc3ad1e61b6e7dUbuntu Security Notice 3364-1 - It was discovered that the Linux kernel did not properly initialize a Wake- on-Lan data structure. A local attacker could use this to expose sensitive information. It was discovered that the Linux kernel did not properly restrict access to /proc/iomem. A local attacker could use this to expose sensitive information. Alexander Potapenko discovered a race condition in the Advanced Linux Sound Architecture subsystem in the Linux kernel. A local attacker could use this to expose sensitive information. Various other issues were also addressed.
9b8186309d84493ebc44898641dc9bf4Red Hat Security Advisory 2017-1798-01 - The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system. Security Fix: 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.c and fs/nfsd/nfsxdr.c.
e1a3b9c84ab42db61a77c3fa2e63860cUbuntu Security Notice 3361-1 - USN-3358-1 fixed vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel for Ubuntu 17.04. This update provides the corresponding updates for the Linux Hardware Enablement kernel from Ubuntu 17.04 for Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. Please note that this update changes the Linux HWE kernel to the 4.10 based kernel from Ubuntu 17.04, superseding the 4.8 based HWE kernel from Ubuntu 16.10. Ben Harris discovered that the Linux kernel would strip extended privilege attributes of files when performing a failed unprivileged system call. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service. Various other issues were also addressed.
2a81ab5a406b26495cf15b17d009be23Ubuntu Security Notice 3360-1 - It was discovered that the Linux kernel did not properly initialize a Wake- on-Lan data structure. A local attacker could use this to expose sensitive information. It was discovered that the Linux kernel did not properly restrict access to /proc/iomem. A local attacker could use this to expose sensitive information. It was discovered that a use-after-free vulnerability existed in the performance events and counters subsystem of the Linux kernel for ARM64. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service or possibly execute arbitrary code. Various other issues were also addressed.
4b837ac472f4020e28f8436305442660Ubuntu Security Notice 3360-2 - USN-3360-1 fixed vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel for Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. This update provides the corresponding updates for the Linux Hardware Enablement kernel from Ubuntu 14.04 LTS for Ubuntu 12.04 ESM. It was discovered that the Linux kernel did not properly initialize a Wake- on-Lan data structure. A local attacker could use this to expose sensitive information. Various other issues were also addressed.
a52c36d22ff0b5f4c7d35c0b403f353cUbuntu Security Notice 3359-1 - It was discovered that the Linux kernel did not properly initialize a Wake- on-Lan data structure. A local attacker could use this to expose sensitive information. Dmitry Vyukov, Andrey Konovalov, Florian Westphal, and Eric Dumazet discovered that the netfiler subsystem in the Linux kernel mishandled IPv6 packet reassembly. A local user could use this to cause a denial of service or possibly execute arbitrary code. Various other issues were also addressed.
ac5a8bf8e487737dba8522c164aac232Ubuntu Security Notice 3358-1 - It was discovered that the Linux kernel did not properly initialize a Wake- on-Lan data structure. A local attacker could use this to expose sensitive information. Alexander Potapenko discovered a race condition in the Advanced Linux Sound Architecture subsystem in the Linux kernel. A local attacker could use this to expose sensitive information. Various other issues were also addressed.
e382e603da4aed5892b8ad16c64fa4a4Red Hat Security Advisory 2017-1766-01 - The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system. Security Fix: 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.c and fs/nfsd/nfsxdr.c.
004d8b9ce9aee29117bfca0aee696e94The Microsoft Windows kernel suffers from a nsiproxy/netio pool memory disclosure vulnerability in the handling of IOCTL 0x120007 (NsiGetParameter).
5fb0a00432c51065a4d436704124521cAndrey Konovalov discovered a use-after-free vulnerability in the DCCP implementation in the Linux kernel. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service (system crash) or possibly gain administrative privileges. It was discovered that the stack guard page for processes in the Linux kernel was not sufficiently large enough to prevent overlapping with the heap. An attacker could leverage this with another vulnerability to execute arbitrary code and gain administrative privileges. Various other vulnerabilities were addressed.
f33f9e8f678adbf7a3a32f53939cff60Red Hat Security Advisory 2017-1715-01 - The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system. Security Fix: 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.c and fs/nfsd/nfsxdr.c.
6cb9a3cd6aba6439cf93b7f8e27fb742Red Hat Security Advisory 2017-1723-01 - The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system. Security Fix: 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.c and fs/nfsd/nfsxdr.c.
75185b7c03dfc5dde8fb73a832f79046When dealing with XFRM_MSG_MIGRATE message, xfrm_migrate func does not check dir value of xfrm_userpolicy_id. This will cause out of bound access to net->xfrm.policy_bydst in policy_hash_direct func and others when dir value exceeds XFRM_POLICY_MAX. Linux kernel versions 4.12 and below are affected.
0a9bccc3cad6b206f80adee221c9dd8fRed Hat Security Advisory 2017-1681-01 - Kernel-based Virtual Machine is a full virtualization solution for Linux on a variety of architectures. The qemu-kvm package provides the user-space component for running virtual machines that use KVM. Security Fix: Quick Emulator built with Network Block Device Server support was vulnerable to a null-pointer dereference issue. The flaw could occur when releasing a client, which was not initialized due to failed negotiation. A remote user or process could exploit this flaw to crash the qemu-nbd server.
2450aff92c2aead53bc48589d9bc6707Slackware Security Advisory - New kernel packages are available for Slackware 14.0 to fix security issues.
b15c8264c306e1bb8474a048b1e37571Slackware Security Advisory - New kernel packages are available for Slackware 14.2 and -current to fix security issues.
66341962b3c696c861bf4ff69a437c1bIt was found that the loader application bundled with InsomniaX can be used to load arbitrary Kernel Extensions (kext). The loader is normally used to load a kext file that is needed to disable the Lid Sleep. A flaw has been found in the loader that allows a local attacker to load (or unload) any arbitrary kext file. Version 2.1.8 is affected.
703ccd1c6eecfd818433456c702fa221Linux kernel ldso_dynamic stack clash privilege escalation exploit. This affects Debian 9/10, Ubuntu 14.04.5/16.04.2/17.04, and Fedora 23/24/25.
26e7fd3397117950b21fa67eb23afc32Linux kernel ldso_hwcap_64 stack clash privilege escalation exploit. This affects Debian 7.7/8.5/9.0, Ubuntu 14.04.2/16.04.2/17.04, Fedora 22/25, and CentOS 7.3.1611.
0807adfea74deef734fd4ac194527b9cLinux kernel offset2lib stack clash exploit.
9c45e4e7a5d321c745ee653fb91aba99Ubuntu Security Notice 3342-2 - USN-3342-1 fixed vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel for Ubuntu 16.10. This update provides the corresponding updates for the Linux Hardware Enablement kernel from Ubuntu 16.10 for Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. USN-3333-1 fixed a vulnerability in the Linux kernel. However, that fix introduced regressions for some Java applications. This update addresses the issue. It was discovered that a use-after-free flaw existed in the filesystem encryption subsystem in the Linux kernel. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service. Various other issues were also addressed.
bc0f3fd59ebd9a60119251cd743295fcLinux kernel ldso_hwcap stack clash privilege escalation exploit. This affects Debian 7/8/9/10, Fedora 23/24/25, and CentOS 5.3/5.11/6.0/6.8/7.2.1511.
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