CVE-2017-5986

Synopsis Important: kernel security, bug fix, and enhancement update Type/Severity Security Advisory: Important Topic An update for kernel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important A Common Vulnerability Scoring S ...

Debian Bug report logs - #852556 linux-image-490-1-amd64: [Regression] Trendnet's TU-ET100C Pegasus II based LAN to USB adapter stopped to work Package: src:linux; Maintainer for src:linux is Debian Kernel Team <debian-kernel@listsdebianorg>; Reported by: Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer <lisandro@debianorg> ...

Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Linux kernel that may lead to a privilege escalation, denial of service or have other impacts CVE-2016-9588 Jim Mattson discovered that the KVM implementation for Intel x86 processors does not properly handle #BP and #OF exceptions in an L2 (nested) virtual machine A local attacker ...

The system could be made to crash under certain conditions ...

The system could be made to crash under certain conditions ...

The system could be made to crash under certain conditions ...

The system could be made to crash under certain conditions ...

Several security issues were fixed in the kernel ...

Several security issues were fixed in the kernel ...

A use-after-free flaw was found in the way the Linux kernel's Datagram Congestion Control Protocol (DCCP) implementation freed SKB (socket buffer) resources for a DCCP_PKT_REQUEST packet when the IPV6_RECVPKTINFO option is set on the socket A local, unprivileged user could use this flaw to alter the kernel memory, allowing them to escalate their p ...

Possible double free in stcp_sendmsg() (incorrect fix for CVE-2017-5986): It was found that the code in net/sctp/socketc in the Linux kernel through 4101 does not properly restrict association peel-off operations during certain wait states, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (invalid unlock and double free) via a multithreaded ...

It was reported that with Linux kernel, earlier than version v410-rc8, an application may trigger a BUG_ON in sctp_wait_for_sndbuf if the socket tx buffer is full, a thread is waiting on it to queue more data, and meanwhile another thread peels off the association being used by the first thread ...

It was reported that with Linux kernel, earlier than version v410-rc8, an application may trigger a BUG_ON in sctp_wait_for_sndbuf if the socket tx buffer is full, a thread is waiting on it to queue more data, and meanwhile another thread peels off the association being used by the first thread This issue may then lead to a segmentation fault res ...