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USN-4136-2: wpa_supplicant and hostapd vulnerability

2019-09-18 KENNETH 0

USN-4136-2: wpa_supplicant and hostapd vulnerability wpa, wpasupplicant vulnerability A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives: Ubuntu 14.04 ESM Ubuntu 12.04 ESM Summary wpa_supplicant could be made to be disconnected and require reconnection to the network if it received a specially crafted management frame. Software Description wpa – client support for WPA and WPA2 wpasupplicant – client support for WPA and WPA2 Details USN-4136-1 fixed a vulnerability in wpa_supplicant. This update provides the corresponding update for Ubuntu 12.04 ESM and Ubuntu 14.04 ESM. Original advisory details: It was discovered that wpa_supplicant incorrectly handled certain management frames. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. Update instructions The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions: Ubuntu 14.04 ESM hostapd – 1:2.1-0ubuntu1.7+esm2 wpasupplicant – 2.1-0ubuntu1.7+esm2 Ubuntu 12.04 ESM [ more… ]

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USN-4136-1: wpa_supplicant and hostapd vulnerability

2019-09-18 KENNETH 0

USN-4136-1: wpa_supplicant and hostapd vulnerability wpa vulnerability A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives: Ubuntu 19.04 Ubuntu 18.04 LTS Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Summary wpa_supplicant could be made to be disconnected and require reconnection to the network if it received a specially crafted management frame. Software Description wpa – client support for WPA and WPA2 Details It was discovered that wpa_supplicant incorrectly handled certain management frames. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. Update instructions The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions: Ubuntu 19.04 hostapd – 2:2.6-21ubuntu3.3 wpasupplicant – 2:2.6-21ubuntu3.3 Ubuntu 18.04 LTS hostapd – 2:2.6-15ubuntu2.5 wpasupplicant – 2:2.6-15ubuntu2.5 Ubuntu 16.04 LTS hostapd – 1:2.4-0ubuntu6.6 wpasupplicant – 2.4-0ubuntu6.6 To update your system, please follow these instructions: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Upgrades. After a standard system update you need [ more… ]

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USN-4135-2: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

2019-09-18 KENNETH 0

USN-4135-2: Linux kernel vulnerabilities linux, linux-aws, linux-azure, linux-lts-trusty, linux-lts-xenial vulnerabilities A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives: Ubuntu 14.04 ESM Ubuntu 12.04 ESM Summary Several security issues were fixed in the Linux kernel. Software Description linux – Linux kernel linux-aws – Linux kernel for Amazon Web Services (AWS) systems linux-azure – Linux kernel for Microsoft Azure Cloud systems linux-lts-xenial – Linux hardware enablement kernel from Xenial for Trusty linux-lts-trusty – Linux hardware enablement kernel from Trusty for Precise ESM Details Peter Pi discovered a buffer overflow in the virtio network backend (vhost_net) implementation in the Linux kernel. An attacker in a guest may be able to use this to cause a denial of service (host OS crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code in the host OS. (CVE-2019-14835) It was discovered that the Linux kernel on PowerPC [ more… ]

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USN-4135-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

2019-09-18 KENNETH 0

USN-4135-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities linux, linux-aws, linux-aws-hwe, linux-azure, linux-gcp, linux-gke-4.15, linux-gke-5.0, linux-hwe, linux-kvm, linux-oem, linux-oracle, linux-raspi2, linux-snapdragon vulnerabilities A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives: Ubuntu 19.04 Ubuntu 18.04 LTS Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Summary Several security issues were fixed in the Linux kernel. Software Description linux – Linux kernel linux-aws – Linux kernel for Amazon Web Services (AWS) systems linux-azure – Linux kernel for Microsoft Azure Cloud systems linux-gcp – Linux kernel for Google Cloud Platform (GCP) systems linux-kvm – Linux kernel for cloud environments linux-raspi2 – Linux kernel for Raspberry Pi 2 linux-snapdragon – Linux kernel for Snapdragon processors linux-gke-4.15 – Linux kernel for Google Container Engine (GKE) systems linux-gke-5.0 – Linux kernel for Google Container Engine (GKE) systems linux-hwe – Linux hardware enablement (HWE) kernel linux-oem – Linux kernel for OEM processors linux-oracle – [ more… ]

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Windows 10 SDK Preview Build 18980 available now!

2019-09-18 KENNETH 0

Windows 10 SDK Preview Build 18980 available now! Today, we released a new Windows 10 Preview Build of the SDK to be used in conjunction with Windows 10 Insider Preview (Build 18980 or greater). The Preview SDK Build 18980 contains bug fixes and under development changes to the API surface area. The Preview SDK can be downloaded from developer section on Windows Insider. For feedback and updates to the known issues, please see the developer forum. For new developer feature requests, head over to our Windows Platform UserVoice. Things to note: This build works in conjunction with previously released SDKs and Visual Studio 2017 and 2019. You can install this SDK and still also continue to submit your apps that target Windows 10 build 1903 or earlier to the Microsoft Store. The Windows SDK will now formally only be supported by Visual Studio 2017 [ more… ]