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 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...

kernel security and bug fix update

2.6.9-89.0.18.0.1.EL - fix skb alignment that was causing sendto to fail with EFAULT Olaf Kirch orabug 6845794 - fix enomem due to larger mtu size page alloc Zach Brown orabug 5486128 - backout patch sysrq-b that queues upto keventd thread Guru Anbalagane orabug 6125546 - netrx/netpoll race...

SuSE 11 Security Update : Linux kernel (SAT Patch Numbers 1581 / 1588 / 1591)

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 Kernel was updated to 2.6.27.39 fixing various bugs and security issues. The following security issues have been fixed : - A race condition during pipe open could be used by local attackers to cause a denial of service. Due to mmapminaddr protection enabled by default...

CVE-2009-3621

net/unix/afunix.c in the Linux kernel 2.6.31.4 and earlier allows local users to cause a denial of service system hang by creating an abstract-namespace AFUNIX listening socket, performing a shutdown operation on this socket, and then performing a series of connect operations to this socket...

CVE-2009-3621

net/unix/afunix.c in the Linux kernel 2.6.31.4 and earlier allows local users to cause a denial of service system hang by creating an abstract-namespace AFUNIX listening socket, performing a shutdown operation on this socket, and then performing a series of connect operations to this socket...

libvirt_proxy <= 0.5.1 Local Privilege Escalation Exploit

Exploit for linux platform in category local exploits ========================================================= libvirtproxy /tmp/getuid.c gcc -shared /tmp/getuid.c -o /tmp/getuid.so echo "+ setting up /tmp/run" echo -e "!/bin/sh" /tmp/run echo -e "touch /tmp/success" /tmp/run echo -e "echo...

Code injection

The 1 modibmssl and 2 modcgid modules in IBM HTTP Server 6.0.x before 6.0.2.31 and 6.1.x before 6.1.0.19, as used in WebSphere Application Server WAS, set incorrect permissions for AFUNIX sockets, which has unknown impact and local attack vectors...

CVE-2009-0436

The 1 modibmssl and 2 modcgid modules in IBM HTTP Server 6.0.x before 6.0.2.31 and 6.1.x before 6.1.0.19, as used in WebSphere Application Server WAS, set incorrect permissions for AFUNIX sockets, which has unknown impact and local attack vectors...

CVE-2009-0436

CVE-2009-0436 affects IBM HTTP Server integrated with WebSphere (was 6.0.x prior to 6.0.2.31; 6.1.x prior to 6.1.0.19). The mod_ibm_ssl and mod_cgid modules set incorrect permissions on AF_UNIX sockets. Impact is described as unknown and local access vectors are indicated; no public exploit detai...

Design/Logic Flaw

Linux kernel 2.6.28 allows local users to cause a denial of service "soft lockup" and process loss via a large number of sendmsg function calls, which does not block during AFUNIX garbage collection and triggers an OOM condition, a different vulnerability than CVE-2008-5029...

CVE-2008-5300

Linux kernel 2.6.28 allows local users to cause a denial of service "soft lockup" and process loss via a large number of sendmsg function calls, which does not block during AFUNIX garbage collection and triggers an OOM condition, a different vulnerability than CVE-2008-5029...

CVE-2008-5300

Linux kernel 2.6.28 allows local users to cause a denial of service "soft lockup" and process loss via a large number of sendmsg function calls, which does not block during AFUNIX garbage collection and triggers an OOM condition, a different vulnerability than CVE-2008-5029...

Ubuntu 4.10 : linux-source-2.6.8.1 vulnerabilities (USN-38-1)

CAN-2004-0814 : Vitaly V. Bursov discovered a Denial of Service vulnerability in the 'serio' code; opening the same tty device twice and doing some particular operations on it caused a kernel panic and/or a system lockup. Fixing this vulnerability required a change in the Application Binary...