Ubuntu 10.04 LTS : linux-lts-backport-oneiric vulnerabilities (USN-1384-1)

A bug was discovered in the Linux kernel's calculation of OOM Out of memory scores, that would result in the wrong process being killed. A user could use this to kill the process with the highest OOM score, even if that process belongs to another user or the system. CVE-2011-4097 Paolo Bonzini...

Ubuntu Update for linux USN-1389-1

Ubuntu Update for Linux kernel vulnerabilities USN-1389-1 OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: gbubuntuUSN13891.nasl 7960 2017-12-01 06:58:16Z santu $ Ubuntu Update for linux USN-1389-1 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2012 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This...

Ubuntu 10.04 LTS : linux-ec2 vulnerabilities (USN-1388-1)

Paolo Bonzini discovered a flaw in Linux's handling of the SGIO ioctl command. A local user, or user in a VM could exploit this flaw to bypass restrictions and gain read/write access to all data on the affected block device. CVE-2011-4127 A flaw was found in KVM's Programmable Interval Timer PIT...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-1388-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2012 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...

USN-1388-1: Linux kernel (EC2) vulnerabilities

Paolo Bonzini discovered a flaw in Linux's handling of the SGIO ioctl command. A local user, or user in a VM could exploit this flaw to bypass restrictions and gain read/write access to all data on the affected block device. CVE-2011-4127 A flaw was found in KVM's Programmable Interval Timer PIT...

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

Updated kernel-rt packages that fix multiple security issues and various bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise MRG 2.1. 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...

Fedora Update for kernel FEDORA-2012-1503

Check for the Version of kernel OpenVAS Vulnerability Test Fedora Update for kernel FEDORA-2012-1503 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2012 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the term...

RHEL 5 : kernel (RHSA-2012:0107)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 5 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2012:0107 advisory. - kernel: ext4: ext4extinsertextent kernel oops CVE-2011-3638 - kernel: jbd2: unmapped buffer with Unwritten or Delay flags set can lead to...

Fedora 15 : kernel-2.6.41.10-3.fc15 (2012-0861)

Update to the 3.1.10 stable release Fedora 2.6.41.10. Also fixes CVEs : - CVE-2012-0056 - CVE-2011-4127 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 a...

Fedora 16 : kernel-3.2.1-3.fc16 (2012-0876)

Rebase F16 to the 3.2.1 stable release. Also fixes CVEs : - CVE-2012-0056 - CVE-2011-4127 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...

Fedora Update for kernel FEDORA-2012-0861

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2012 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 scriptxrefname:"URL",...

qemu-kvm security, bug fix, and enhancement update

qemu-kvm-0.12.1.2-2.209.el62.4 - kvm-e1000-prevent-buffer-overflow-when-processing-legacy.patch bz772081 - Resolves: bz772081 EMBARGOED CVE-2012-0029 qemu-kvm: e1000: processtxdesc legacy mode packets heap overflow rhel-6.2.z qemu-kvm-0.12.1.2-2.209.el62.3 -...

Debian DSA-2389-1 : linux-2.6 - privilege escalation/denial of service/information leak

Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Linux kernel that may lead to a denial of service or privilege escalation. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems : - CVE-2011-2183 Andrea Righi reported an issue in KSM, a memory-saving de-duplication...

DSA-2389-1 linux-2.6 - several

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Fedora Update for libguestfs FEDORA-2011-17388

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2012 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 scriptxrefname:"URL",...

Fedora Update for libguestfs FEDORA-2011-17388

Check for the Version of libguestfs OpenVAS Vulnerability Test Fedora Update for libguestfs FEDORA-2011-17388 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2012 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under...

Medium: kernel

Issue Overview: The Linux kernel before 3.2.2 does not properly restrict SGIO ioctl calls, which allows local users to bypass intended restrictions on disk read and write operations by sending a SCSI command to 1 a partition block device or 2 an LVM volume. Affected Packages: kernel Issue...

Fedora 15 : libguestfs-1.10.12-1.fc15 (2011-17388)

Fixes Security: Mitigate possible privilege escalation via SGIO ioctl CVE-2011-4127, RHBZ757071. 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...

Fedora 16 : libguestfs-1.14.8-1.fc16 (2011-17372)

Fixes Security: Mitigate possible privilege escalation via SGIO ioctl CVE-2011-4127, RHBZ757071. 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...

RHEL 6 : kernel (RHSA-2011:1849)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 6 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2011:1849 advisory. The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system. Security fix: Using the SGIO IOCTL to issue SCSI...