[SECURITY] Fedora 16 Update: grub2-1.99-13.fc16.3

The GRand Unified Bootloader GRUB is a highly configurable and customizab le bootloader with modular architecture. It support rich varietyof kernel for mats, file systems, computer architectures and hardware devices...

Windows Bitlocker Open to Attack

An attacker with access to the target computer simply boots from a USB flash drive and replaces the BitLocker bootloader with a substitute bootloader which mimics the BitLocker PIN query process but saves the PINs entered by the user to disk in unencrypted form. Read the full article. The H Secur...

PT-2009-6303 · Gnu · Grub

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: GNU GRand Unified Bootloader GRUB 2 version 1.97 Description: The issue allows physically proximate attackers to conduct brute force attacks and bypass authentication by submitting a password whose length is 1, as the software only compares t...

CVE-2009-4128

CVE-2009-4128 affects GRUB 2 (1.97) and allows authentication bypass by feeding a 1-character password because GRUB 2 did not properly validate the entire password. Affected systems could be exploited by an attacker with physical access to perform a local brute-force attack. Ubuntu's USN-868-1 an...

RedHat Security Advisory RHSA-2009:1472

The remote host is missing updates announced in advisory RHSA-2009:1472. Xen is an open source virtualization framework. Virtualization allows users to run guest operating systems in virtual machines on top of a host operating system. The pyGrub boot loader did not honor the password option in th...

CVE-2009-3525

CVE-2009-3525 affects Xen pyGrub in Xen 3.0.3, 3.3.0, and Xen-3.3.1, where the password option in grub.conf is not honored for para-virtualized guests. This allows attackers with access to the para-virtualized guest console to boot the guest or alter kernel boot parameters without the expected pa...

MDVA-2008:025 : drakxtools

This drakxtools update package fixes issues with the hardrake tool to make sure that USB keys are not auto-configured by the service at boot 34568, and adds back the Run Config tool button in the harddrake interface 34794. An issue where bootloader-config would use vmlinuz-desktop or...

Mandriva Update for drakxtools MDVA-2008:025 (drakxtools)

Check for the Version of drakxtools OpenVAS Vulnerability Test Mandriva Update for drakxtools MDVA-2008:025 drakxtools Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2009 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify...

Mandriva Update for drakxtools MDVA-2008:025 (drakxtools)

Check for the Version of drakxtools OpenVAS Vulnerability Test Mandriva Update for drakxtools MDVA-2008:025 drakxtools Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2009 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify...

SuSE Update for kernel SUSE-SA:2007:021

Check for the Version of kernel OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: gbsuse2007021.nasl 8050 2017-12-08 09:34:29Z santu $ SuSE Update for kernel SUSE-SA:2007:021 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2009 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This program is free software;...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : kernel (MDKSA-2004:001)

A flaw in bounds checking in mremap in the Linux kernel versions 2.4.23 and previous was discovered by Paul Starzetz. This flaw may be used to allow a local attacker to obtain root privilege. Another minor information leak in the RTC real time clock routines was fixed as well. All Mandrake Linux...

Linux news 22.04.00

Linux 2.2.16pre1 На ftp.kernel.org уже появились предварительные версии ядра Linux 2.2.16, содержащие различные обновления, которые не войдут в Linux 2.2.15. Последняя pre-версия ядра 2.2.15 - pre19. Подробнее: ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/alan/2.2.16pre-tobe/ A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO...