Oracle Linux 3 : kernel (ELSA-2007-0436)

From Red Hat Security Advisory 2007:0436 : Updated kernel packages are now available as part of ongoing support and maintenance of Red Hat Enterprise Linux version 3. This is the ninth regular update. This security advisory has been rated as having important security impact by the Red Hat Securit...

Oracle Linux 5 : acpid (ELSA-2009-1642)

The remote Oracle Linux 5 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ELSA-2009-1642 advisory. 1.0.4-9.el54.1 - Resolves: 515062 CVE-2009-4033 acpid: log file created with random permissions Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly...

Oracle Linux 5 : kernel (ELSA-2013-0847)

The remote Oracle Linux 5 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ELSA-2013-0847 advisory. - xen AMD IOMMU: spot missing IO-APIC entries in IVRS table Igor Mammedov 910912 910913 CVE-2013-0153 - xen AMD, IOMMU: Make per-device interrupt remap table...

kernel: security and bugfix update (critical)

The openSUSE 12.3 kernel was updated to fix a critical security issue, other security issues and several bugs. Security issues fixed: CVE-2013-2094: The perfsweventinit function in kernel/events/core.c in the Linux kernel used an incorrect integer data type, which allowed local users to gain...

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kernel 2.6.18-348.6.1.0.1 - oprofile x86, mm: Add getuserpagesfast orabug 14277030 - oprofile export getuserpagesfast function orabug 14277030 - oprofile oprofile, x86: Fix nmi-unsafe callgraph support orabug 14277030 - oprofile oprofile: use KMNMI slot for kmapatomic orabug 14277030 - oprofile...

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

Updated kernel-rt packages that fix several security issues and three bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise MRG 2.3. 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...

Oracle Linux 6 kernel security and bugfix update

2.6.32-358.el6 - fs Fix sget race with failing mount Eric Sandeen 883276 2.6.32-357.el6 - virt xen: Fix stack corruption in xenfailsafecallback for 32bit PVOPS guests Andrew Jones 896050 CVE-2013-0190 - block sgio: use different default filters for each device class Paolo Bonzini 875361...

kernel: security and bugfix update (important)

This kernel update to 3.4.11 fixes various bugs and security issues. The changes up to 3.4.11 contain both security and bugfixes and are not explicitly listed here. Following security issues were fixed: CVE-2012-3520: Force passing credentials, otherwise local services could be fooled to assume...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : acpid (MDVSA-2012:137)

Multiple vulnerabilities has been discovered and corrected in acpid : Oliver-Tobias Ripka discovered that an ACPI script incorrectly handled power button events. A local attacker could use this to execute arbitrary code, and possibly escalate privileges CVE-2011-2777. Helmut Grohne and Michael...

Mandriva Update for acpid MDVSA-2012:137 (acpid)

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",...

Mandriva Update for acpid MDVSA-2012:137 (acpid)

Check for the Version of acpid OpenVAS Vulnerability Test Mandriva Update for acpid MDVSA-2012:137 acpid 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...

Scientific Linux Security Update : kernel on SL5.x i386/x86_64

This update fixes the following security issues : - a logic error was found in the dosetlk function of the Linux kernel Network File System NFS implementation. If a signal interrupted a lock request, the local POSIX lock was incorrectly created. This could cause a denial of service on the NFS...

Scientific Linux Security Update : kernel on SL3.x i386/x86_64

There were no new features introduced by this update. The only changes that have been included address critical customer needs or security issues elaborated below. Key areas affected by fixes in this update include the networking subsystem, dcache handling, the ext2 and ext3 file systems, the USB...

Scientific Linux Security Update : kernel on SL5.x i386/x86_64

Security fixes : - NULL pointer dereference flaws in the r128 driver. Checks to test if the Concurrent Command Engine state was initialized were missing in private IOCTL functions. An attacker could use these flaws to cause a local denial of service or escalate their privileges. CVE-2009-3620,...

CVE-2011-1021

drivers/acpi/debugfs.c in the Linux kernel before 3.0 allows local users to modify arbitrary kernel memory locations by leveraging root privileges to write to the /sys/kernel/debug/acpi/custommethod file. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2010-4347...

UBUNTU-CVE-2011-1021

drivers/acpi/debugfs.c in the Linux kernel before 3.0 allows local users to modify arbitrary kernel memory locations by leveraging root privileges to write to the /sys/kernel/debug/acpi/custommethod file. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2010-4347...

CVE-2011-1021

The CVE-2011-1021 entry describes a local privilege escalation in the Linux kernel caused by the ACPI debugfs interface. Vulnerable component: drivers/acpi/debugfs.c. Affected software: Linux kernel versions before 3.0. Root-level access is required to write to /sys/kernel/debug/acpi/custom_metho...

PT-2012-1502 · Linux · Linux Kernel

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Linux kernel versions prior to 3.0 Description: The issue allows local users with root privileges to modify arbitrary kernel memory locations by writing to the /sys/kernel/debug/acpi/custom method file. This is due to an incomplete fix for a...

SuSE 10 Security Update : Linux kernel (ZYPP Patch Number 4186)

This kernel update fixes the following security problems : - The IPv6 protocol allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via crafted IPv6 type 0 route headers IPV6RTHDRTYPE0 that create network amplification between two routers. CVE-2007-2242 The default is that RH0 is disabled now. To...

SuSE 10 Security Update : Linux kernel (ZYPP Patch Number 7811)

This Linux kernel update fixes various security issues and bugs in the SUSE Linux Enterprise 10 SP4 kernel. The following security issues have been fixed : - A USB string descriptor overflow in the auerwald USB driver was fixed, which could be used by physically proximate attackers to cause a...