Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : kernel (MDVSA-2008:224-1)

Some vulnerabilities were discovered and corrected in the Linux 2.6 kernel : The error-reporting functionality in 1 fs/ext2/dir.c, 2 fs/ext3/dir.c, and possibly 3 fs/ext4/dir.c in the Linux kernel 2.6.26.5 does not limit the number of printk console messages that report directory corruption, whic...

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...

MacOS X privilege escalation

There are conditions it's possible to obtains local root access having access to USB keyboard during boot process...

Символьные линки в kmmodreg из HP/UX (symbolic links)

Проблема символьных линков в утилите kmmodreg boot...