The rds_iw_laddr_check function in net/rds/iw.c in the Linux kernel through 3.14 allows local users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and system crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a bind system call for an RDS socket on a system that lacks RDS transports.

The remote Oracle Linux 5 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2014-09261 advisory.

  - The rds_iw_laddr_check function in net/rds/iw.c in the Linux kernel through 3.14 allows local users to     cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and system crash) or possibly have unspecified other     impact via a bind system call for an RDS socket on a system that lacks RDS transports. (CVE-2014-2678)

  - Xen 3.2.x through 4.4.x does not properly clean memory pages recovered from guests, which allows local     guest OS users to obtain sensitive information via unspecified vectors. (CVE-2014-4021)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

This plugin has been deprecated as it is a duplicate of oraclelinux_ELSA-2014-0926-1.nasl (plugin ID 76855).

According to the versions of the kernel packages installed, the EulerOS Virtualization for ARM 64 installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerabilities :

  - In the Linux kernel, Hisilicon Network Subsystem (HNS)     does not consider the ETH_SS_PRIV_FLAGS case when     retrieving sset_count data. This allows local users to     cause a denial of service (buffer overflow and memory     corruption) or possibly have unspecified other     impacts.(CVE-2017-18222i1/4%0

  - A flaw was found in the way the Linux kernel's     networking implementation handled UDP packets with     incorrect checksum values. A remote attacker could     potentially use this flaw to trigger an infinite loop     in the kernel, resulting in a denial of service on the     system, or cause a denial of service in applications     using the edge triggered epoll     functionality.(CVE-2015-5366i1/4%0

  - A use-after-free vulnerability was found in the     kernel's socket recvmmsg subsystem. This may allow     remote attackers to corrupt memory and may allow     execution of arbitrary code. This corruption takes     place during the error handling routines within
    __sys_recvmmsg() function.(CVE-2016-7117i1/4%0

  - arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c in the Linux kernel through 4.6.3     mishandles the APICv on/off state, which allows guest     OS users to obtain direct APIC MSR access on the host     OS, and consequently cause a denial of service (host OS     crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code on the host     OS, via x2APIC mode.(CVE-2016-4440i1/4%0

  - In the Linux kernel before 4.17, a local attacker able     to set attributes on an xfs filesystem could make this     filesystem non-operational until the next mount by     triggering an unchecked error condition during an xfs     attribute change, because xfs_attr_shortform_addname in     fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_attr.c mishandles ATTR_REPLACE     operations with conversion of an attr from short to     long form.(CVE-2018-18690i1/4%0

  - A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's ext4 filesystem.
    A local user can cause an out-of-bounds write and a     denial of service or unspecified other impact is     possible by mounting and operating a crafted ext4     filesystem image.(CVE-2018-10878i1/4%0

  - Xen 3.3.x through 4.5.x and the Linux kernel through     3.19.1 do not properly restrict access to PCI command     registers, which might allow local guest OS users to     cause a denial of service (non-maskable interrupt and     host crash) by disabling the (1) memory or (2) I/O     decoding for a PCI Express device and then accessing     the device, which triggers an Unsupported Request (UR)     response.(CVE-2015-2150i1/4%0

  - The assoc_array_insert_into_terminal_node() function in     'lib/assoc_array.c' in the Linux kernel before 4.5.3     does not check whether a slot is a leaf, which allows     local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel     memory or cause a denial of service (invalid pointer     dereference and out-of-bounds read) via an application     that uses associative-array data     structures.(CVE-2016-7914i1/4%0

  - It was found that the x86 ISA (Instruction Set     Architecture) is prone to a denial of service attack     inside a virtualized environment in the form of an     infinite loop in the microcode due to the way     (sequential) delivering of benign exceptions such as     #AC (alignment check exception) is handled. A     privileged user inside a guest could use this flaw to     create denial of service conditions on the host     kernel.(CVE-2015-5307i1/4%0

  - An issue was discovered in fs/f2fs/super.c in the Linux     kernel, which does not properly validate secs_per_zone     in a corrupted f2fs image. This may lead to a     divide-by-zero error and a system     crash.(CVE-2018-13100i1/4%0

  - The mISDN_sock_recvmsg function in     drivers/isdn/mISDN/socket.c in the Linux kernel before     3.12.4 does not ensure that a certain length value is     consistent with the size of an associated data     structure, which allows local users to obtain sensitive     information from kernel memory via a (1) recvfrom, (2)     recvmmsg, or (3) recvmsg system call.(CVE-2013-7266i1/4%0

  - A NULL pointer dereference flaw was found in the     rds_iw_laddr_check() function in the Linux kernel's     implementation of Reliable Datagram Sockets (RDS). A     local, unprivileged user could use this flaw to crash     the system.(CVE-2014-2678i1/4%0

  - A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's handling of     packets with the URG flag. Applications using the     splice() and tcp_splice_read() functionality could     allow a remote attacker to force the kernel to enter a     condition in which it could loop     indefinitely.(CVE-2017-6214i1/4%0

  - The kernel_wait4 function in kernel/exit.c in the Linux     kernel before 4.13, when an unspecified architecture     and compiler is used, might allow local users to cause     a denial of service by triggering an attempted use of     the -INT_MIN value.(CVE-2018-10087i1/4%0

  - Heap-based buffer overflow in the private wireless     extensions IOCTL implementation in wlan_hdd_wext.c in     the WLAN (aka Wi-Fi) driver for the Linux kernel 3.x     and 4.x, as used in Qualcomm Innovation Center (QuIC)     Android contributions for MSM devices and other     products, allows attackers to gain privileges via a     crafted application that establishes a packet     filter.(CVE-2015-0569i1/4%0

  - A race condition flaw was found in the Linux kernel's     ext4 file system implementation that allowed a local,     unprivileged user to crash the system by simultaneously     writing to a file and toggling the O_DIRECT flag using     fcntl(F_SETFL) on that file.(CVE-2014-8086i1/4%0

  - The mm_init function in kernel/fork.c in the Linux     kernel before 4.12.10 does not clear the -i1/4zexe_file     member of a new process's mm_struct, allowing a local     attacker to achieve a use-after-free condition and to     induce a kernel memory corruption on the system,     leading to a crash or possibly have unspecified other     impact by running a specially crafted program. Due to     the nature of the flaw, privilege escalation cannot be     fully ruled out, although we feel it is     unlikely.(CVE-2017-17052i1/4%0

  - A buffer overflow flaw was found in the way the Linux     kernel's Intel AES-NI instructions optimized version of     the RFC4106 GCM mode decryption functionality handled     fragmented packets. A remote attacker could use this     flaw to crash, or potentially escalate their privileges     on, a system over a connection with an active AES-GCM     mode IPSec security association.(CVE-2015-3331i1/4%0

  - A flaw was found in the processing of incoming L2CAP     bluetooth commands. Uninitialized stack variables can     be sent to an attacker leaking data in kernel address     space.(CVE-2017-1000410i1/4%0

  - It was found that a remote attacker could use a race     condition flaw in the ath_tx_aggr_sleep() function to     crash the system by creating large network traffic on     the system's Atheros 9k wireless network     adapter.(CVE-2014-2672i1/4%0

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the EulerOS security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Updated kernel packages that fix multiple security issues and several bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.4 Extended Update Support.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having Important security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base scores, which give detailed severity ratings, are available for each vulnerability from the CVE links in the References section.

The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system.

* A use-after-free flaw was found in the way the ping_init_sock() function of the Linux kernel handled the group_info reference counter.
A local, unprivileged user could use this flaw to crash the system or, potentially, escalate their privileges on the system. (CVE-2014-2851, Important)

* A NULL pointer dereference flaw was found in the rds_ib_laddr_check() function in the Linux kernel's implementation of Reliable Datagram Sockets (RDS). A local, unprivileged user could use this flaw to crash the system. (CVE-2013-7339, Moderate)

* It was found that a remote attacker could use a race condition flaw in the ath_tx_aggr_sleep() function to crash the system by creating large network traffic on the system's Atheros 9k wireless network adapter. (CVE-2014-2672, Moderate)

* A NULL pointer dereference flaw was found in the rds_iw_laddr_check() function in the Linux kernel's implementation of Reliable Datagram Sockets (RDS). A local, unprivileged user could use this flaw to crash the system. (CVE-2014-2678, Moderate)

* A race condition flaw was found in the way the Linux kernel's mac80211 subsystem implementation handled synchronization between TX and STA wake-up code paths. A remote attacker could use this flaw to crash the system. (CVE-2014-2706, Moderate)

This update also fixes the following bugs :

* The Completely Fair Scheduler (CFS) did not verify whether the CFS period timer is running while throttling tasks on the CFS run queue.
Therefore under certain circumstances, the CFS run queue became stuck because the CFS period timer was inactive and could not be restarted.
To fix this problem, the CFS now restarts the CFS period timer inside the throttling function if it is inactive. (BZ#1120666)

* A previous change to the SCSI code fixed a race condition that could occur when removing a SCSI device. However, that change caused performance degradation because it used a certain function from the block layer code that was returning different values compared with later versions of the kernel. This update alters the SCSI code to properly utilize the values returned by the block layer code.
(BZ#1117581)

* If a statically defined gateway became unreachable and its corresponding neighbor entry entered a FAILED state, the gateway stayed in the FAILED state even after it became reachable again. This prevented routing of the traffic through that gateway. This update allows probing such a gateway automatically and routing the traffic through the gateway again once it becomes reachable. (BZ#1115262)

* A miscalculation in the 'radix_tree' swap encoding corrupted swap area indexes bigger than 8 by truncating lower bits of swap entries.
Consequently, systems with more than 8 swap areas could trigger a bogus OOM scenario when swapping out to such a swap area. This update fixes this problem by reducing a return value of the SWP_TYPE_SHIFT() function and removing a broken function call from the read_swap_header() function. (BZ#1099727)

* The automatic route cache rebuilding feature could incorrectly compute the length of a route hash chain if the cache contained multiple entries with the same key but a different TOS, mark, or OIF bit. Consequently, the feature could reach the rebuild limit and disable the routing cache on the system. This problem is fixed by using a helper function that avoids counting such duplicate routes.
(BZ#1113823)

* When booting a guest in the Hyper-V environment and enough of Programmable Interval Timer (PIT) interrupts were lost or not injected into the guest on time, the kernel panicked and the guest failed to boot. This problem has been fixed by bypassing the relevant PIT check when the guest is running under the Hyper-V environment. (BZ#1112225)

All kernel users are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which contain backported patches to correct these issues. The system must be rebooted for this update to take effect.

Updated kernel packages that fix multiple security issues, several bugs, and add one enhancement are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.

The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having Important security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base scores, which give detailed severity ratings, are available for each vulnerability from the CVE links in the References section.

The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system.

* A use-after-free flaw was found in the way the ping_init_sock() function of the Linux kernel handled the group_info reference counter.
A local, unprivileged user could use this flaw to crash the system or, potentially, escalate their privileges on the system. (CVE-2014-2851, Important)

* A NULL pointer dereference flaw was found in the way the futex_wait_requeue_pi() function of the Linux kernel's futex subsystem handled the requeuing of certain Priority Inheritance (PI) futexes. A local, unprivileged user could use this flaw to crash the system.
(CVE-2012-6647, Moderate)

* A NULL pointer dereference flaw was found in the rds_ib_laddr_check() function in the Linux kernel's implementation of Reliable Datagram Sockets (RDS). A local, unprivileged user could use this flaw to crash the system. (CVE-2013-7339, Moderate)

* It was found that a remote attacker could use a race condition flaw in the ath_tx_aggr_sleep() function to crash the system by creating large network traffic on the system's Atheros 9k wireless network adapter. (CVE-2014-2672, Moderate)

* A NULL pointer dereference flaw was found in the rds_iw_laddr_check() function in the Linux kernel's implementation of Reliable Datagram Sockets (RDS). A local, unprivileged user could use this flaw to crash the system. (CVE-2014-2678, Moderate)

* A race condition flaw was found in the way the Linux kernel's mac80211 subsystem implementation handled synchronization between TX and STA wake-up code paths. A remote attacker could use this flaw to crash the system. (CVE-2014-2706, Moderate)

* An out-of-bounds memory access flaw was found in the Netlink Attribute extension of the Berkeley Packet Filter (BPF) interpreter functionality in the Linux kernel's networking implementation. A local, unprivileged user could use this flaw to crash the system or leak kernel memory to user space via a specially crafted socket filter. (CVE-2014-3144, CVE-2014-3145, Moderate)

This update also fixes several bugs and adds one enhancement.
Documentation for these changes will be available shortly from the Technical Notes document linked to in the References section.

All kernel users are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which contain backported patches to correct these issues and add this enhancement. The system must be rebooted for this update to take effect.

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 6 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2014:0981 advisory.

    The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux     operating system.

    * A use-after-free flaw was found in the way the ping_init_sock() function     of the Linux kernel handled the group_info reference counter. A local,     unprivileged user could use this flaw to crash the system or, potentially,     escalate their privileges on the system. (CVE-2014-2851, Important)

    * A NULL pointer dereference flaw was found in the way the     futex_wait_requeue_pi() function of the Linux kernel's futex subsystem     handled the requeuing of certain Priority Inheritance (PI) futexes.
    A local, unprivileged user could use this flaw to crash the system.
    (CVE-2012-6647, Moderate)

    * A NULL pointer dereference flaw was found in the rds_ib_laddr_check()     function in the Linux kernel's implementation of Reliable Datagram Sockets     (RDS). A local, unprivileged user could use this flaw to crash the system.
    (CVE-2013-7339, Moderate)

    * It was found that a remote attacker could use a race condition flaw in     the ath_tx_aggr_sleep() function to crash the system by creating large     network traffic on the system's Atheros 9k wireless network adapter.
    (CVE-2014-2672, Moderate)

    * A NULL pointer dereference flaw was found in the rds_iw_laddr_check()     function in the Linux kernel's implementation of Reliable Datagram Sockets     (RDS). A local, unprivileged user could use this flaw to crash the system.
    (CVE-2014-2678, Moderate)

    * A race condition flaw was found in the way the Linux kernel's mac80211     subsystem implementation handled synchronization between TX and STA wake-up     code paths. A remote attacker could use this flaw to crash the system.
    (CVE-2014-2706, Moderate)

    * An out-of-bounds memory access flaw was found in the Netlink Attribute     extension of the Berkeley Packet Filter (BPF) interpreter functionality in     the Linux kernel's networking implementation. A local, unprivileged user     could use this flaw to crash the system or leak kernel memory to user space     via a specially crafted socket filter. (CVE-2014-3144, CVE-2014-3145,     Moderate)

    This update also fixes several bugs and adds one enhancement.
    Documentation for these changes will be available shortly from the     Technical Notes document linked to in the References section.

    All kernel users are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which     contain backported patches to correct these issues and add this     enhancement. The system must be rebooted for this update to take effect.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote Oracle Linux 6 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2014-0981 advisory.

    - [netdrv] pppol2tp: fail when socket option level is not SOL_PPPOL2TP [1119461 1119462] {CVE-2014-4943}
    - [kernel] utrace: force IRET path after utrace_finish_vfork() (Oleg Nesterov) [1115932 1115933]     {CVE-2014-4699}
    - [net] filter: prevent nla extensions to peek beyond the end of the message (Jiri Benc) [1096778 1096779]     {CVE-2014-3144 CVE-2014-3145}
    - [net] rds: prevent dereference of a NULL device in rds_iw_laddr_check (Radomir Vrbovsky) [1083276     1083277] {CVE-2014-2678}
    - [kernel] futex: Forbid uaddr == uaddr2 in futex_wait_requeue_pi() (Mateusz Guzik) [1097759 1097760]     {CVE-2012-6647}
    - [net] mac80211: crash dues to AP powersave TX vs. wakeup race (Jacob Tanenbaum) [1083531 1083532]     {CVE-2014-2706}
    - [netdrv] ath9k: tid->sched race in ath_tx_aggr_sleep() (Jacob Tanenbaum) [1083249 1083250]     {CVE-2014-2672}
    - [net] ipv4: current group_info should be put after using (Jiri Benc) [1087412 1087414] {CVE-2014-2851}
    - [net] rds: dereference of a NULL device (Jacob Tanenbaum) [1079218 1079219] {CVE-2013-7339}
    - [kernel] futex: Make lookup_pi_state more robust (Jerome Marchand) [1104516 1104517] {CVE-2014-3153}
    - [kernel] futex: Always cleanup owner tid in unlock_pi (Jerome Marchand) [1104516 1104517]     {CVE-2014-3153}
    - [kernel] futex: Validate atomic acquisition in futex_lock_pi_atomic() (Jerome Marchand) [1104516     1104517] {CVE-2014-3153}
    - [kernel] futex: prevent requeue pi on same futex (Jerome Marchand) [1104516 1104517] {CVE-2014-3153}
    - [block] floppy: don't write kernel-only members to FDRAWCMD ioctl output (Denys Vlasenko) [1094308     1094310] {CVE-2014-1738 CVE-2014-1737}
    - [block] floppy: ignore kernel-only members in FDRAWCMD ioctl input (Denys Vlasenko) [1094308 1094310]     {CVE-2014-1738 CVE-2014-1737}
    - [fs] vfs: fix autofs/afs/etc magic mountpoint breakage (Frantisek Hrbata) [1094370 1079347]     {CVE-2014-0203}

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Oracle Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote Oracle Linux 5 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2014-0926 advisory.

    - [infiniband] rds: do not deref NULL dev in rds_iw_laddr_check() (Jacob Tanenbaum) [1093311 1093312]     {CVE-2014-2678}
    - [xen] page-alloc: scrub anonymous domain heap pages upon freeing (Vitaly Kuznetsov) [1103648 1103649]     {CVE-2014-4021}

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Oracle Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

- A NULL pointer dereference flaw was found in the     rds_iw_laddr_check() function in the Linux kernel's     implementation of Reliable Datagram Sockets (RDS). A     local, unprivileged user could use this flaw to crash     the system. (CVE-2014-2678, Moderate)

  - It was found that the Xen hypervisor implementation did     not properly clean memory pages previously allocated by     the hypervisor. A privileged guest user could     potentially use this flaw to read data relating to other     guests or the hypervisor itself. (CVE-2014-4021,     Moderate)

This update also fixes the following bugs :

  - A bug in the journaling block device (jbd and jbd2) code     could, under certain circumstances, trigger a BUG_ON()     assertion and result in a kernel oops. This happened     when an application performed an extensive number of     commits to the journal of the ext3 file system and there     was no currently active transaction while synchronizing     the file's in-core state. This problem has been resolved     by correcting respective test conditions in the jbd and     jbd2 code.

  - After a statically defined gateway became unreachable     and its corresponding neighbor entry entered a FAILED     state, the gateway stayed in the FAILED state even after     it became reachable again. As a consequence, traffic was     not routed through that gateway. This update allows     probing such a gateway automatically so that the traffic     can be routed through this gateway again once it becomes     reachable.

  - Due to an incorrect condition check in the IPv6 code,     the ipv6 driver was unable to correctly assemble     incoming packet fragments, which resulted in a high IPv6     packet loss rate. This update fixes the said check for a     fragment overlap and ensures that incoming IPv6 packet     fragments are now processed as expected.

  - Recent changes in the d_splice_alias() function     introduced a bug that allowed d_splice_alias() to return     a dentry from a different directory than the directory     being looked up. As a consequence in cluster     environment, a kernel panic could be triggered when a     directory was being removed while a concurrent     cross-directory operation was performed on this     directory on another cluster node. This update avoids     the kernel panic in this situation by correcting the     search logic in the d_splice_alias() function so that     the function can no longer return a dentry from an     incorrect directory.

  - The NFSv4 server did not handle multiple OPEN operations     to the same file separately, which could cause the NFSv4     client to repeatedly send CLOSE requests with the same     state ID, even though the NFS server rejected the     request with an NFS4ERR_OLD_STATEID (10024) error code.
    This update ensures that the NFSv4 client no longer     re-sends the same CLOSE request after receiving     NFS4ERR_OLD_STATEID.

The system must be rebooted for this update to take effect.

Updated kernel packages that fix two security issues and several bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.

The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having Moderate security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base scores, which give detailed severity ratings, are available for each vulnerability from the CVE links in the References section.

The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system.

* A NULL pointer dereference flaw was found in the rds_iw_laddr_check() function in the Linux kernel's implementation of Reliable Datagram Sockets (RDS). A local, unprivileged user could use this flaw to crash the system. (CVE-2014-2678, Moderate)

* It was found that the Xen hypervisor implementation did not properly clean memory pages previously allocated by the hypervisor. A privileged guest user could potentially use this flaw to read data relating to other guests or the hypervisor itself. (CVE-2014-4021, Moderate)

Red Hat would like to thank the Xen project for reporting CVE-2014-4021. Upstream acknowledges Jan Beulich as the original reporter.

This update also fixes the following bugs :

* A bug in the journaling block device (jbd and jbd2) code could, under certain circumstances, trigger a BUG_ON() assertion and result in a kernel oops. This happened when an application performed an extensive number of commits to the journal of the ext3 file system and there was no currently active transaction while synchronizing the file's in-core state. This problem has been resolved by correcting respective test conditions in the jbd and jbd2 code. (BZ#1097528)

* After a statically defined gateway became unreachable and its corresponding neighbor entry entered a FAILED state, the gateway stayed in the FAILED state even after it became reachable again. As a consequence, traffic was not routed through that gateway. This update allows probing such a gateway automatically so that the traffic can be routed through this gateway again once it becomes reachable.
(BZ#1106354)

* Due to an incorrect condition check in the IPv6 code, the ipv6 driver was unable to correctly assemble incoming packet fragments, which resulted in a high IPv6 packet loss rate. This update fixes the said check for a fragment overlap and ensures that incoming IPv6 packet fragments are now processed as expected. (BZ#1107932)

* Recent changes in the d_splice_alias() function introduced a bug that allowed d_splice_alias() to return a dentry from a different directory than the directory being looked up. As a consequence in cluster environment, a kernel panic could be triggered when a directory was being removed while a concurrent cross-directory operation was performed on this directory on another cluster node.
This update avoids the kernel panic in this situation by correcting the search logic in the d_splice_alias() function so that the function can no longer return a dentry from an incorrect directory.
(BZ#1109720)

* The NFSv4 server did not handle multiple OPEN operations to the same file separately, which could cause the NFSv4 client to repeatedly send CLOSE requests with the same state ID, even though the NFS server rejected the request with an NFS4ERR_OLD_STATEID (10024) error code.
This update ensures that the NFSv4 client no longer re-sends the same CLOSE request after receiving NFS4ERR_OLD_STATEID. (BZ#1113468)

All kernel users are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which contain backported patches to correct these issues. The system must be rebooted for this update to take effect.

Updated kernel-rt packages that fix multiple security issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise MRG 2.5.

The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having Important security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base scores, which give detailed severity ratings, are available for each vulnerability from the CVE links in the References section.

The kernel-rt packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system.

  * A race condition leading to a use-after-free flaw was     found in the way the Linux kernel's TCP/IP protocol     suite implementation handled the addition of fragments     to the LRU (Last-Recently Used) list under certain     conditions. A remote attacker could use this flaw to     crash the system or, potentially, escalate their     privileges on the system by sending a large amount of     specially crafted fragmented packets to that system.
    (CVE-2014-0100, Important)

  * A race condition flaw, leading to heap-based buffer     overflows, was found in the way the Linux kernel's N_TTY     line discipline (LDISC) implementation handled     concurrent processing of echo output and TTY write     operations originating from user space when the     underlying TTY driver was PTY. An unprivileged, local     user could use this flaw to crash the system or,     potentially, escalate their privileges on the system.
    (CVE-2014-0196, Important)

  * A flaw was found in the way the Linux kernel's floppy     driver handled user space provided data in certain error     code paths while processing FDRAWCMD IOCTL commands. A     local user with write access to /dev/fdX could use this     flaw to free (using the kfree() function) arbitrary     kernel memory. (CVE-2014-1737, Important)

  * It was found that the Linux kernel's floppy driver     leaked internal kernel memory addresses to user space     during the processing of the FDRAWCMD IOCTL command. A     local user with write access to /dev/fdX could use this     flaw to obtain information about the kernel heap     arrangement. (CVE-2014-1738, Low)

Note: A local user with write access to /dev/fdX could use these two flaws (CVE-2014-1737 in combination with CVE-2014-1738) to escalate their privileges on the system.

  * A use-after-free flaw was found in the way the     ping_init_sock() function of the Linux kernel handled     the group_info reference counter. A local, unprivileged     user could use this flaw to crash the system or,     potentially, escalate their privileges on the system.
    (CVE-2014-2851, Important)

  * It was found that a remote attacker could use a race     condition flaw in the ath_tx_aggr_sleep() function to     crash the system by creating large network traffic on     the system's Atheros 9k wireless network adapter.
    (CVE-2014-2672, Moderate)

  * A NULL pointer dereference flaw was found in the     rds_iw_laddr_check() function in the Linux kernel's     implementation of Reliable Datagram Sockets (RDS). A     local, unprivileged user could use this flaw to crash     the system. (CVE-2014-2678, Moderate)

  * A race condition flaw was found in the way the Linux     kernel's mac80211 subsystem implementation handled     synchronization between TX and STA wake-up code paths.
    A remote attacker could use this flaw to crash the     system. (CVE-2014-2706, Moderate)

  * It was found that the try_to_unmap_cluster() function in     the Linux kernel's Memory Managment subsystem did not     properly handle page locking in certain cases, which     could potentially trigger the BUG_ON() macro in the     mlock_vma_page() function. A local, unprivileged user     could use this flaw to crash the system. (CVE-2014-3122,     Moderate)

Users are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which upgrade the kernel-rt kernel to version kernel-rt-3.10.33-rt32.34 and correct these issues. The system must be rebooted for this update to take effect.

The Linux kernel was updated to fix security issues and bugs :

Security issues fixed: CVE-2014-3153: The futex_requeue function in kernel/futex.c in the Linux kernel did not ensure that calls have two different futex addresses, which allowed local users to gain privileges via a crafted FUTEX_REQUEUE command that facilitates unsafe waiter modification.

CVE-2014-0077: drivers/vhost/net.c in the Linux kernel, when mergeable buffers are disabled, did not properly validate packet lengths, which allowed guest OS users to cause a denial of service (memory corruption and host OS crash) or possibly gain privileges on the host OS via crafted packets, related to the handle_rx and get_rx_bufs functions.

CVE-2014-0055: The get_rx_bufs function in drivers/vhost/net.c in the vhost-net subsystem in the Linux kernel package did not properly handle vhost_get_vq_desc errors, which allowed guest OS users to cause a denial of service (host OS crash) via unspecified vectors.

CVE-2014-2678: The rds_iw_laddr_check function in net/rds/iw.c in the Linux kernel allowed local users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and system crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a bind system call for an RDS socket on a system that lacks RDS transports.

CVE-2013-7339: The rds_ib_laddr_check function in net/rds/ib.c in the Linux kernel allowed local users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and system crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a bind system call for an RDS socket on a system that lacks RDS transports.

CVE-2014-2851: Integer overflow in the ping_init_sock function in net/ipv4/ping.c in the Linux kernel allowed local users to cause a denial of service (use-after-free and system crash) or possibly gain privileges via a crafted application that leverages an improperly managed reference counter.

CVE-2014-3122: The try_to_unmap_cluster function in mm/rmap.c in the Linux kernel did not properly consider which pages must be locked, which allowed local users to cause a denial of service (system crash) by triggering a memory-usage pattern that requires removal of page-table mappings.

Bugs fixed :

  - memcg: deprecate memory.force_empty knob (bnc#878274).

The Linux kernel was updated to fix security issues and bugs.

Security issues fixed: CVE-2014-3153: The futex_requeue function in kernel/futex.c in the Linux kernel did not ensure that calls have two different futex addresses, which allowed local users to gain privileges via a crafted FUTEX_REQUEUE command that facilitates unsafe waiter modification.

CVE-2014-3144: The (1) BPF_S_ANC_NLATTR and (2) BPF_S_ANC_NLATTR_NEST extension implementations in the sk_run_filter function in net/core/filter.c in the Linux kernel did not check whether a certain length value is sufficiently large, which allowed local users to cause a denial of service (integer underflow and system crash) via crafted BPF instructions. NOTE: the affected code was moved to the
__skb_get_nlattr and __skb_get_nlattr_nest functions before the vulnerability was announced.

CVE-2014-3145: The BPF_S_ANC_NLATTR_NEST extension implementation in the sk_run_filter function in net/core/filter.c in the Linux kernel used the reverse order in a certain subtraction, which allowed local users to cause a denial of service (over-read and system crash) via crafted BPF instructions. NOTE: the affected code was moved to the
__skb_get_nlattr_nest function before the vulnerability was announced.

CVE-2014-0077: drivers/vhost/net.c in the Linux kernel, when mergeable buffers are disabled, did not properly validate packet lengths, which allowed guest OS users to cause a denial of service (memory corruption and host OS crash) or possibly gain privileges on the host OS via crafted packets, related to the handle_rx and get_rx_bufs functions.

CVE-2014-0055: The get_rx_bufs function in drivers/vhost/net.c in the vhost-net subsystem in the Linux kernel package did not properly handle vhost_get_vq_desc errors, which allowed guest OS users to cause a denial of service (host OS crash) via unspecified vectors.

CVE-2014-2678: The rds_iw_laddr_check function in net/rds/iw.c in the Linux kernel allowed local users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and system crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a bind system call for an RDS socket on a system that lacks RDS transports.

CVE-2013-7339: The rds_ib_laddr_check function in net/rds/ib.c in the Linux kernel allowed local users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and system crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a bind system call for an RDS socket on a system that lacks RDS transports.

CVE-2014-2851: Integer overflow in the ping_init_sock function in net/ipv4/ping.c in the Linux kernel allowed local users to cause a denial of service (use-after-free and system crash) or possibly gain privileges via a crafted application that leverages an improperly managed reference counter.

  - ext4: Fix buffer double free in ext4_alloc_branch()     (bnc#880599 bnc#876981).

  - patches.fixes/firewire-01-net-fix-use-after-free.patch,     patches.fixes/firewire-02-ohci-fix-probe-failure-with-ag     ere-lsi-controllers.patch,     patches.fixes/firewire-03-dont-use-prepare_delayed_work.
    patch: Add missing bug reference (bnc#881697).

  - firewire: don't use PREPARE_DELAYED_WORK.

  - firewire: ohci: fix probe failure with Agere/LSI     controllers.

  - firewire: net: fix use after free.

  - USB: OHCI: fix problem with global suspend on ATI     controllers (bnc#868315).

  - mm: revert 'page-writeback.c: subtract min_free_kbytes     from dirtyable memory' (bnc#879792).

  - usb: musb: tusb6010: Use musb->tusb_revision instead of     tusb_get_revision call (bnc#872715).

  - usb: musb: tusb6010: Add tusb_revision to struct musb to     store the revision (bnc#872715).

  - ALSA: hda - Fix onboard audio on Intel H97/Z97 chipsets     (bnc#880613).

  - floppy: do not corrupt bio.bi_flags when reading block 0     (bnc#879258).

  - reiserfs: call truncate_setsize under tailpack mutex     (bnc#878115).

  - Update Xen config files: Set compatibility level back to     4.1 (bnc#851338).

  - Update config files. Guillaume GARDET reported a broken     build due to CONFIG_USB_SERIAL_GENERIC being modular

  - memcg: deprecate memory.force_empty knob (bnc#878274).

  - nfsd: when reusing an existing repcache entry, unhash it     first (bnc#877721).

  - Enable Socketcan again for i386 and x86_64 (bnc#858067)

  - xhci: extend quirk for Renesas cards (bnc#877713).

  - xhci: Fix resume issues on Renesas chips in Samsung     laptops (bnc#877713).

  - mm: try_to_unmap_cluster() should lock_page() before     mlocking (bnc#876102, CVE-2014-3122).

  - drm/i915, HD-audio: Don't continue probing when     nomodeset is given (bnc#882648).

  - x86/mm/numa: Fix 32-bit kernel NUMA boot (bnc#881727).

Multiple vulnerabilities has been found and corrected in the Linux kernel :

kernel/auditsc.c in the Linux kernel through 3.14.5, when CONFIG_AUDITSYSCALL is enabled with certain syscall rules, allows local users to obtain potentially sensitive single-bit values from kernel memory or cause a denial of service (OOPS) via a large value of a syscall number (CVE-2014-3917).

The futex_requeue function in kernel/futex.c in the Linux kernel through 3.14.5 does not ensure that calls have two different futex addresses, which allows local users to gain privileges via a crafted FUTEX_REQUEUE command that facilitates unsafe waiter modification (CVE-2014-3153).

Race condition in the ath_tx_aggr_sleep function in drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/xmit.c in the Linux kernel before 3.13.7 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (system crash) via a large amount of network traffic that triggers certain list deletions (CVE-2014-2672).

The (1) BPF_S_ANC_NLATTR and (2) BPF_S_ANC_NLATTR_NEST extension implementations in the sk_run_filter function in net/core/filter.c in the Linux kernel through 3.14.3 do not check whether a certain length value is sufficiently large, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (integer underflow and system crash) via crafted BPF instructions. NOTE: the affected code was moved to the
__skb_get_nlattr and __skb_get_nlattr_nest functions before the vulnerability was announced (CVE-2014-3144).

The BPF_S_ANC_NLATTR_NEST extension implementation in the sk_run_filter function in net/core/filter.c in the Linux kernel through 3.14.3 uses the reverse order in a certain subtraction, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (over-read and system crash) via crafted BPF instructions. NOTE: the affected code was moved to the __skb_get_nlattr_nest function before the vulnerability was announced (CVE-2014-3145).

Integer overflow in the ping_init_sock function in net/ipv4/ping.c in the Linux kernel through 3.14.1 allows local users to cause a denial of service (use-after-free and system crash) or possibly gain privileges via a crafted application that leverages an improperly managed reference counter (CVE-2014-2851).

The n_tty_write function in drivers/tty/n_tty.c in the Linux kernel through 3.14.3 does not properly manage tty driver access in the LECHO !OPOST case, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (memory corruption and system crash) or gain privileges by triggering a race condition involving read and write operations with long strings (CVE-2014-0196).

The raw_cmd_copyout function in drivers/block/floppy.c in the Linux kernel through 3.14.3 does not properly restrict access to certain pointers during processing of an FDRAWCMD ioctl call, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel heap memory by leveraging write access to a /dev/fd device (CVE-2014-1738).

The raw_cmd_copyin function in drivers/block/floppy.c in the Linux kernel through 3.14.3 does not properly handle error conditions during processing of an FDRAWCMD ioctl call, which allows local users to trigger kfree operations and gain privileges by leveraging write access to a /dev/fd device (CVE-2014-1737).

The rds_iw_laddr_check function in net/rds/iw.c in the Linux kernel through 3.14 allows local users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and system crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a bind system call for an RDS socket on a system that lacks RDS transports (CVE-2014-2678).

drivers/vhost/net.c in the Linux kernel before 3.13.10, when mergeable buffers are disabled, does not properly validate packet lengths, which allows guest OS users to cause a denial of service (memory corruption and host OS crash) or possibly gain privileges on the host OS via crafted packets, related to the handle_rx and get_rx_bufs functions (CVE-2014-0077).

The ip6_route_add function in net/ipv6/route.c in the Linux kernel through 3.13.6 does not properly count the addition of routes, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a flood of ICMPv6 Router Advertisement packets (CVE-2014-2309).

Multiple array index errors in drivers/hid/hid-multitouch.c in the Human Interface Device (HID) subsystem in the Linux kernel through 3.11, when CONFIG_HID_MULTITOUCH is enabled, allow physically proximate attackers to cause a denial of service (heap memory corruption, or NULL pointer dereference and OOPS) via a crafted device (CVE-2013-2897).

net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_proto_dccp.c in the Linux kernel through 3.13.6 uses a DCCP header pointer incorrectly, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (system crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a DCCP packet that triggers a call to the (1) dccp_new, (2) dccp_packet, or (3) dccp_error function (CVE-2014-2523).

Race condition in the mac80211 subsystem in the Linux kernel before 3.13.7 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (system crash) via network traffic that improperly interacts with the WLAN_STA_PS_STA state (aka power-save mode), related to sta_info.c and tx.c (CVE-2014-2706).

The sctp_sf_do_5_1D_ce function in net/sctp/sm_statefuns.c in the Linux kernel through 3.13.6 does not validate certain auth_enable and auth_capable fields before making an sctp_sf_authenticate call, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and system crash) via an SCTP handshake with a modified INIT chunk and a crafted AUTH chunk before a COOKIE_ECHO chunk (CVE-2014-0101).

The cifs_iovec_write function in fs/cifs/file.c in the Linux kernel through 3.13.5 does not properly handle uncached write operations that copy fewer than the requested number of bytes, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel memory, cause a denial of service (memory corruption and system crash), or possibly gain privileges via a writev system call with a crafted pointer (CVE-2014-0069).

arch/s390/kernel/head64.S in the Linux kernel before 3.13.5 on the s390 platform does not properly handle attempted use of the linkage stack, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (system crash) by executing a crafted instruction (CVE-2014-2039).

Buffer overflow in virt/kvm/irq_comm.c in the KVM subsystem in the Linux kernel before 3.2.24 allows local users to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via vectors related to Message Signaled Interrupts (MSI), irq routing entries, and an incorrect check by the setup_routing_entry function before invoking the kvm_set_irq function (CVE-2012-2137).

The security_context_to_sid_core function in security/selinux/ss/services.c in the Linux kernel before 3.13.4 allows local users to cause a denial of service (system crash) by leveraging the CAP_MAC_ADMIN capability to set a zero-length security context (CVE-2014-1874).

The updated packages provides a solution for these security issues.

Matthew Daley reported an information leak in the floppy disk driver of the Linux kernel. An unprivileged local user could exploit this flaw to obtain potentially sensitive information from kernel memory.
(CVE-2014-1738)

Matthew Daley reported a flaw in the handling of ioctl commands by the floppy disk driver in the Linux kernel. An unprivileged local user could exploit this flaw to gain administrative privileges if the floppy disk module is loaded. (CVE-2014-1737)

A flaw was discovered in the vhost-net subsystem of the Linux kernel.
Guest OS users could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service (host OS crash). (CVE-2014-0055)

A flaw was discovered in the handling of network packets when mergeable buffers are disabled for virtual machines in the Linux kernel. Guest OS users may exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service (host OS crash) or possibly gain privilege on the host OS.
(CVE-2014-0077)

Nikolay Aleksandrov discovered a race condition in Linux kernel's IPv4 fragment handling code. Remote attackers could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service (system crash) or possibly have other unspecified impact. (CVE-2014-0100)

A flaw was discovered in the Linux kernel's handling of the SCTP handshake. A remote attacker could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service (system crash). (CVE-2014-0101)

A flaw was discovered in the handling of routing information in Linux kernel's IPv6 stack. A remote attacker could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a flood of ICMPv6 router advertisement packets. (CVE-2014-2309)

An error was discovered in the Linux kernel's DCCP protocol support. A remote attacked could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service (system crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2014-2523)

Max Sydorenko discovered a race condition in the Atheros 9k wireless driver in the Linux kernel. This race could be exploited by remote attackers to cause a denial of service (system crash). (CVE-2014-2672)

Adhemerval Zanella Neto discovered a flaw the in the Transactional Memory (TM) implementation for powerpc based machine. An unprivileged local user could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service (system crash). (CVE-2014-2673)

An error was discovered in the Reliable Datagram Sockets (RDS) protocol stack in the Linux kernel. A local user could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service (system crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact. (CVE-2014-2678)

Yaara Rozenblum discovered a race condition in the Linux kernel's Generic IEEE 802.11 Networking Stack (mac80211). Remote attackers could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service (system crash).
(CVE-2014-2706)

A flaw was discovered in the Linux kernel's ping sockets. An unprivileged local user could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service (system crash) or possibly gain privileges via a crafted application. (CVE-2014-2851).

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Matthew Daley reported an information leak in the floppy disk driver of the Linux kernel. An unprivileged local user could exploit this flaw to obtain potentially sensitive information from kernel memory.
(CVE-2014-1738)

Matthew Daley reported a flaw in the handling of ioctl commands by the floppy disk driver in the Linux kernel. An unprivileged local user could exploit this flaw to gain administrative privileges if the floppy disk module is loaded. (CVE-2014-1737)

A flaw was discovered in the vhost-net subsystem of the Linux kernel.
Guest OS users could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service (host OS crash). (CVE-2014-0055)

A flaw was discovered in the handling of network packets when mergeable buffers are disabled for virtual machines in the Linux kernel. Guest OS users may exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service (host OS crash) or possibly gain privilege on the host OS.
(CVE-2014-0077)

A flaw was discovered in the Linux kernel's handling of the SCTP handshake. A remote attacker could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service (system crash). (CVE-2014-0101)

A flaw was discovered in the handling of routing information in Linux kernel's IPv6 stack. A remote attacker could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a flood of ICMPv6 router advertisement packets. (CVE-2014-2309)

An error was discovered in the Linux kernel's DCCP protocol support. A remote attacked could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service (system crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2014-2523)

Max Sydorenko discovered a race condition in the Atheros 9k wireless driver in the Linux kernel. This race could be exploited by remote attackers to cause a denial of service (system crash). (CVE-2014-2672)

An error was discovered in the Reliable Datagram Sockets (RDS) protocol stack in the Linux kernel. A local user could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service (system crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact. (CVE-2014-2678)

Yaara Rozenblum discovered a race condition in the Linux kernel's Generic IEEE 802.11 Networking Stack (mac80211). Remote attackers could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service (system crash).
(CVE-2014-2706)

A flaw was discovered in the Linux kernel's ping sockets. An unprivileged local user could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service (system crash) or possibly gain privileges via a crafted application. (CVE-2014-2851)

Sasha Levin reported a bug in the Linux kernel's virtual memory management subsystem. An unprivileged local user could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service (system crash). (CVE-2014-3122).

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Matthew Daley reported an information leak in the floppy disk driver of the Linux kernel. An unprivileged local user could exploit this flaw to obtain potentially sensitive information from kernel memory.
(CVE-2014-1738)

Matthew Daley reported a flaw in the handling of ioctl commands by the floppy disk driver in the Linux kernel. An unprivileged local user could exploit this flaw to gain administrative privileges if the floppy disk module is loaded. (CVE-2014-1737)

A flaw was discovered in the Linux kernel's IPC reference counting. An unprivileged local user could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service (OOM system crash). (CVE-2013-4483)

A flaw was discovered in the vhost-net subsystem of the Linux kernel.
Guest OS users could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service (host OS crash). (CVE-2014-0055)

A flaw was discovered in the handling of network packets when mergeable buffers are disabled for virtual machines in the Linux kernel. Guest OS users may exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service (host OS crash) or possibly gain privilege on the host OS.
(CVE-2014-0077)

A flaw was discovered in the Linux kernel's handling of the SCTP handshake. A remote attacker could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service (system crash). (CVE-2014-0101)

A flaw was discovered in the handling of routing information in Linux kernel's IPv6 stack. A remote attacker could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a flood of ICMPv6 router advertisement packets. (CVE-2014-2309)

An error was discovered in the Linux kernel's DCCP protocol support. A remote attacked could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service (system crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2014-2523)

Max Sydorenko discovered a race condition in the Atheros 9k wireless driver in the Linux kernel. This race could be exploited by remote attackers to cause a denial of service (system crash). (CVE-2014-2672)

An error was discovered in the Reliable Datagram Sockets (RDS) protocol stack in the Linux kernel. A local user could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service (system crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact. (CVE-2014-2678)

Yaara Rozenblum discovered a race condition in the Linux kernel's Generic IEEE 802.11 Networking Stack (mac80211). Remote attackers could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service (system crash).
(CVE-2014-2706)

A flaw was discovered in the Linux kernel's ping sockets. An unprivileged local user could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service (system crash) or possibly gain privileges via a crafted application. (CVE-2014-2851)

Sasha Levin reported a bug in the Linux kernel's virtual memory management subsystem. An unprivileged local user could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service (system crash). (CVE-2014-3122).

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Matthew Daley reported an information leak in the floppy disk driver of the Linux kernel. An unprivileged local user could exploit this flaw to obtain potentially sensitive information from kernel memory.
(CVE-2014-1738)

Matthew Daley reported a flaw in the handling of ioctl commands by the floppy disk driver in the Linux kernel. An unprivileged local user could exploit this flaw to gain administrative privileges if the floppy disk module is loaded. (CVE-2014-1737)

A flaw was discovered in the Linux kernel's IPC reference counting. An unprivileged local user could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service (OOM system crash). (CVE-2013-4483)

Al Viro discovered an error in how CIFS in the Linux kernel handles uncached write operations. An unprivileged local user could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service (system crash), obtain sensitive information from kernel memory, or possibly gain privileges.
(CVE-2014-0069)

A flaw was discovered in the handling of network packets when mergeable buffers are disabled for virtual machines in the Linux kernel. Guest OS users may exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service (host OS crash) or possibly gain privilege on the host OS.
(CVE-2014-0077)

A flaw was discovered in the Linux kernel's handling of the SCTP handshake. A remote attacker could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service (system crash). (CVE-2014-0101)

A flaw was discovered in the handling of routing information in Linux kernel's IPv6 stack. A remote attacker could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a flood of ICMPv6 router advertisement packets. (CVE-2014-2309)

An error was discovered in the Linux kernel's DCCP protocol support. A remote attacked could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service (system crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2014-2523)

Max Sydorenko discovered a race condition in the Atheros 9k wireless driver in the Linux kernel. This race could be exploited by remote attackers to cause a denial of service (system crash). (CVE-2014-2672)

An error was discovered in the Reliable Datagram Sockets (RDS) protocol stack in the Linux kernel. A local user could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service (system crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact. (CVE-2014-2678)

Yaara Rozenblum discovered a race condition in the Linux kernel's Generic IEEE 802.11 Networking Stack (mac80211). Remote attackers could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service (system crash).
(CVE-2014-2706)

A flaw was discovered in the Linux kernel's ping sockets. An unprivileged local user could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service (system crash) or possibly gain privileges via a crafted application. (CVE-2014-2851).

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Matthew Daley reported an information leak in the floppy disk driver of the Linux kernel. An unprivileged local user could exploit this flaw to obtain potentially sensitive information from kernel memory.
(CVE-2014-1738)

Matthew Daley reported a flaw in the handling of ioctl commands by the floppy disk driver in the Linux kernel. An unprivileged local user could exploit this flaw to gain administrative privileges if the floppy disk module is loaded. (CVE-2014-1737)

A flaw was discovered in the Reliable Datagram Sockets (RDS) protocol implementation in the Linux kernel for systems that lack RDS transports. An unprivileged local user could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service (system crash). (CVE-2013-7339)

An error was discovered in the Reliable Datagram Sockets (RDS) protocol stack in the Linux kernel. A local user could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service (system crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact. (CVE-2014-2678).

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

The 3.13.9 stable update contains a number of important fixes across the tree. The 3.13.8 stable update contains a number of important fixes across the tree.

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

The 3.13.9 stable update contains a number of important fixes across the tree.

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
181071	Oracle Linux 5 : ELSA-2014-0926-1: / kernel (ELSA-2014-09261) (deprecated)	Nessus	Oracle Linux Local Security Checks	critical
124808	EulerOS Virtualization for ARM 64 3.0.1.0 : kernel (EulerOS-SA-2019-1484)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	critical
79043	RHEL 6 : kernel (RHSA-2014:1101)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	high
76948	CentOS 6 : kernel (CESA-2014:0981)	Nessus	CentOS Local Security Checks	high
76908	RHEL 6 : kernel (RHSA-2014:0981)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	high
76888	Oracle Linux 6 : kernel (ELSA-2014-0981)	Nessus	Oracle Linux Local Security Checks	high
76856	Oracle Linux 5 : kernel (ELSA-2014-0926)	Nessus	Oracle Linux Local Security Checks	critical
76782	Scientific Linux Security Update : kernel on SL5.x i386/x86_64 (20140723)	Nessus	Scientific Linux Local Security Checks	medium
76779	CentOS 5 : kernel (CESA-2014:0926)	Nessus	CentOS Local Security Checks	medium
76751	RHEL 5 : kernel (RHSA-2014:0926)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	medium
76677	RHEL 6 : MRG (RHSA-2014:0557)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	high
76557	SuSE 11.3 Security Update : Linux kernel (SAT Patch Numbers 9488 / 9491 / 9493)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	critical
76342	openSUSE Security Update : kernel (openSUSE-SU-2014:0856-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high
76228	openSUSE Security Update : kernel (openSUSE-SU-2014:0840-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high
74513	Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : kernel (MDVSA-2014:124)	Nessus	Mandriva Local Security Checks	critical
74215	Ubuntu 13.10 : linux vulnerabilities (USN-2228-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	critical
74213	Ubuntu 12.04 LTS : linux-lts-saucy vulnerabilities (USN-2225-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	critical
74212	Ubuntu 12.04 LTS : linux-lts-raring vulnerabilities (USN-2224-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	critical
74211	Ubuntu 12.04 LTS : linux-lts-quantal vulnerabilities (USN-2223-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	critical
74184	Ubuntu 12.04 LTS : linux vulnerabilities (USN-2221-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	critical
74183	Ubuntu 10.04 LTS : linux-ec2 vulnerabilities (USN-2220-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	high
74182	Ubuntu 10.04 LTS : linux vulnerabilities (USN-2219-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	high
73428	Fedora 19 : kernel-3.13.9-100.fc19 (2014-4849)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	medium
73427	Fedora 20 : kernel-3.13.9-200.fc20 (2014-4844)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	medium

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