[SECURITY] Fedora Core 6 Update: cpio-2.6-22.fc6

GNU cpio copies files into or out of a cpio or tar archive. Archives are files which contain a collection of other files plus information about them, such as their file name, owner, timestamps, and access permissions. The archive can be another file on the disk, a magnetic tape, or a pipe. GNU cp...

About Posion Ivy 2.3.0 free kill points idea-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

Originally wanted to send to the original area, but to see other places also have the discussion of, and the method is certainly a lot, so I'll put here, please have a idea of the friends in here big comments! Today in foreign countries, the IRC saw a few foreigners in the discussion of the PI2. ...

Ubuntu 4.10 : linux-source-2.6.8.1 vulnerabilities (USN-57-1)

Paul Starzetz discovered a race condition in the ELF library and a.out binary format loaders, which can be locally exploited in several different ways to gain root privileges. CAN-2004-1235 Liang Bin found a design flaw in the capability module. After this module was loaded on demand in a running...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : kernel (MDKSA-2005:110)

Multiple vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel have been discovered and fixed in this update. The following CVE names have been fixed in the LE2005 kernel : Colin Percival discovered a vulnerability in Intel's Hyper-Threading technology could allow a local user to use a malicious thread to create...

Linux kernel ELF core dump privilege elevation

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi, since it became clear from the discussion in January about the uselib vulnerability, that the Linux community prefers full, non-embargoed disclosure of kernel bugs, I release full details right now. However to follows at least some of the...

security flaw

Race condition in the 1 loadelflibrary and 2 binfmtaout function calls for uselib in Linux kernel 2.4 through 2.429-rc2 and 2.6 through 2.6.10 allows local users to execute arbitrary code by manipulating the VMA descriptor...