Information Disclosure

kernel is vulnerable to information disclosure. The vulnerability exists as /proc/PID/io is world-readable by default. Previously, these files could be read without any further restrictions. A local, unprivileged user could read these files, belonging to other, possibly privileged processes to...

RHEL 5 : kernel (RHSA-2011:1813)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 5 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2011:1813 advisory. - kernel: sctp dos CVE-2011-2482 - kernel: rpc task leak after flocking NFS share CVE-2011-2491 - kernel: /proc/PID/io infoleak CVE-2011-249...

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

Security issues : - Using PCI passthrough without interrupt remapping support allowed KVM guests to generate MSI interrupts and thus potentially inject traps. A privileged guest user could use this flaw to crash the host or possibly escalate their privileges on the host. The fix for this issue ca...

SuSE 11.1 Security Update : Linux kernel (SAT Patch Numbers 5031 / 5055)

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 Service Pack 1 kernel was updated to 2.6.32.45 and fixes various bugs and security issues. The following security issues have been fixed : - Timo Warns reported an issue in the Linux implementation for GUID partitions. Users with physical access could gain access to...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-1285-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2011 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...

Ubuntu Update for linux USN-1285-1

Ubuntu Update for Linux kernel vulnerabilities USN-1285-1 OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: gbubuntuUSN12851.nasl 7964 2017-12-01 07:32:11Z santu $ Ubuntu Update for linux USN-1285-1 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2011 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This...

Ubuntu 11.04 : linux vulnerabilities (USN-1285-1)

Andrea Righi discovered a race condition in the KSM memory merging support. If KSM was being used, a local attacker could exploit this to crash the system, leading to a denial of service. CVE-2011-2183 Vasily Averin discovered that the NFS Lock Manager NLM incorrectly handled unlock requests. A...

Ubuntu 10.04 LTS : linux-lts-backport-natty vulnerabilities (USN-1279-1)

Andrea Righi discovered a race condition in the KSM memory merging support. If KSM was being used, a local attacker could exploit this to crash the system, leading to a denial of service. CVE-2011-2183 Vasily Averin discovered that the NFS Lock Manager NLM incorrectly handled unlock requests. A...

Ubuntu Update for linux-ec2 USN-1239-1

Ubuntu Update for Linux kernel vulnerabilities USN-1239-1 OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: gbubuntuUSN12391.nasl 7964 2017-12-01 07:32:11Z santu $ Ubuntu Update for linux-ec2 USN-1239-1 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2011 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net Th...

USN-1244-1 : linux-ti-omap4 vulnerabilities

Dan Rosenberg discovered that the Linux kernel X.25 implementation incorrectly parsed facilities. A remote attacker could exploit this to crash the kernel, leading to a denial of service. CVE-2010-3873 Andrea Righi discovered a race condition in the KSM memory merging support. If KSM was being...

Ubuntu 10.04 LTS : linux-ec2 vulnerabilities (USN-1239-1)

Ryan Sweat discovered that the kernel incorrectly handled certain VLAN packets. On some systems, a remote attacker could send specially crafted traffic to crash the system, leading to a denial of service. CVE-2011-1576 Vasiliy Kulikov and Dan Rosenberg discovered that ecryptfs did not correctly...

USN-1244-1: Linux kernel (OMAP4) vulnerabilities

Dan Rosenberg discovered that the Linux kernel X.25 implementation incorrectly parsed facilities. A remote attacker could exploit this to crash the kernel, leading to a denial of service. CVE-2010-3873 Andrea Righi discovered a race condition in the KSM memory merging support. If KSM was being...

USN-1242-1: Linux kernel (Maverick backport) vulnerabilities

It was discovered that the security fix for CVE-2010-4250 introduced a regression. A remote attacker could exploit this to crash the system, leading to a denial of service. CVE-2011-1479 Vasiliy Kulikov discovered that taskstats did not enforce access restrictions. A local attacker could exploit...

Ubuntu Update for linux USN-1236-1

Ubuntu Update for Linux kernel vulnerabilities USN-1236-1 OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: gbubuntuUSN12361.nasl 7964 2017-12-01 07:32:11Z santu $ Ubuntu Update for linux USN-1236-1 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2011 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-1236-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2011 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...

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

Updated kernel packages that fix multiple 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 important security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base scores, which give detailed...