[SECURITY] Fedora 20 Update: async-http-client-1.7.22-2.fc20

Async Http Client library purpose is to allow Java applications to easily execute HTTP requests and asynchronously process the HTTP responses. The Async HTTP Client library is simple to use...

Web Application Security Scanner Framework: Arachni

Arachni is a feature-full, modular, high-performance Ruby framework aimed towards helping penetration testers and administrators evaluate the security of modern web applications. It is free, with its source code public and available for review. It is multi-platform, supporting all major operating...

Taming the wild copy: Parallel Thread Corruption

Posted by Chris Evans, Winner of the occasional race Back in 2002, a very interesting vulnerability was found and fixed in the Apache web server. Relating to a bug in chunked encoding handing, the vulnerability caused a memcpy call with a negative length with the destination on the stack. Of...

Linux kernel denial of service vulnerability (CNVD-2015-01817)

The Linux kernel is the kernel used by the operating system Linux, released by the Linux Foundation in the United States. A security vulnerability exists in the file system implementation of Linux kernel 3.12.17 and prior versions, which originates from a program that uses an improper locking...

kernel: soft lockup on aio

It was found that due to excessive fileslock locking, a soft lockup could be triggered in the Linux kernel when performing asynchronous I/O operations. A local, unprivileged user could use this flaw to crash the system...

kernel, perf, python security update

CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-2015:0290 Updated kernel packages that fix multiple security issues, address several hundred bugs, and add numerous enhancements are now available as part of the ongoing support and maintenance of Red Hat Enterprise Linux version 7. This is the first regul...

CVE-2014-8172

The filesystem implementation in the Linux kernel before 3.13 performs certain operations on lists of files with an inappropriate locking approach, which allows local users to cause a denial of service soft lockup or system crash via unspecified use of Asynchronous I/O AIO operations...

DEBIAN-CVE-2014-8172

The filesystem implementation in the Linux kernel before 3.13 performs certain operations on lists of files with an inappropriate locking approach, which allows local users to cause a denial of service soft lockup or system crash via unspecified use of Asynchronous I/O AIO operations...

UBUNTU-CVE-2014-8172

The filesystem implementation in the Linux kernel before 3.13 performs certain operations on lists of files with an inappropriate locking approach, which allows local users to cause a denial of service soft lockup or system crash via unspecified use of Asynchronous I/O AIO operations...

Command Execution Vulnerability in Youyou's Email System of Shenzhen Hechen Communication Technology Co.

Shenzhen Hechen Communication Technology Co., Ltd. Youyou mail system is a modern enterprise to set up a professional e-mail service of a set of overall solutions, the mail system not only provides the conventional e-mail functions, but also extends the e-mail monitoring, e-mail antivirus, e-mail...

kernel: soft lockup on aio

It was found that due to excessive fileslock locking, a soft lockup could be triggered in the Linux kernel when performing asynchronous I/O operations. A local, unprivileged user could use this flaw to crash the system...

WordPress Plugin AJAX Post Search 'the_search_function' SQL Injection Vulnerability

WordPress is a content management system developed using the PHP language. WordPress plugin AJAX Post Search 'thesearchfunction' suffers from a SQL injection vulnerability that allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary SQL commands via the 'thesearchtext' parameter...

[SECURITY] Fedora 20 Update: libserf-1.3.7-1.fc20

The serf library is a C-based HTTP client library built upon the Apache Portable Runtime APR library. It multiplexes connections, running the read/write communication asynchronously. Memory copies and transformations are kept to a minimum to provide high performance operation...

AIX Java Advisory : java_apr2014_advisory.asc

The version of Java SDK installed on the remote host is potentially affected by the following vulnerabilities : - There is an information disclosure flaw in libjpeg and libjpeg-turbo allowing remote attackers access to uninitialized memory via crafted JPEG images. CVE-2013-6629 - A vulnerability ...

Debian DSA-2971-1 : dbus - security update

Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in dbus, an asynchronous inter-process communication system. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems : - CVE-2014-3477 Alban Crequy at Collabora Ltd. discovered that dbus-daemon sends an AccessDenied error to...

[SECURITY] [DSA 2971-1] dbus security update

------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory DSA-2971-1 [email protected] http://www.debian.org/security/ Salvatore Bonaccorso July 02, 2014 http://www.debian.org/security/faq -...

PT-2015-4025 · Linux +3 · Linux Kernel +3

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Linux kernel versions prior to 3.13 Description: The issue is related to the filesystem implementation in the Linux kernel, which uses an inappropriate locking approach when performing certain operations on lists of files. This can be exploit...

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

Updated kernel packages that fix two security issues and several bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.2 Extended Update Support. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having important security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base scores, whi...

kernel: ext4: AIO vs fallocate stale data exposure

Race condition in fs/ext4/extents.c in the Linux kernel before 3.4.16 allows local users to obtain sensitive information from a deleted file by reading an extent that was not properly marked as uninitialized...

Fedora Update for nodejs-graceful-fs FEDORA-2013-12908

Check for the Version of nodejs-graceful-fs OpenVAS Vulnerability Test Fedora Update for nodejs-graceful-fs FEDORA-2013-12908 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2013 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or...