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

Updated kernel packages that fix three security issues and several bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having moderate security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base scores, which give detailed severity...

kernel: xen: VCPU timer overflow leads to PCPU deadlock and host death-by-watchdog

Xen 3.4 through 4.2, and possibly earlier versions, allows local guest OS administrators to cause a denial of service Xen infinite loop and physical CPU consumption by setting a VCPU with an "inappropriate deadline."...

kernel security and bug fix update

2.6.32-279.9.1.el6 - md raid1, raid10: avoid deadlock during resync/recovery. Dave Wysochanski 845464 835613 - fs dlm: fix deadlock between dlmsend and dlmcontrold David Teigland 849051 824964 - ata libata: Add space to fix 2GB ATA Flash Disk/ADMA428M blacklist Prarit Bhargava 851445 843849 - fs...

Moderate: Red Hat Security Advisory: kernel-rt security, bug fix, and enhancement update

Updated kernel-rt packages that fix one security issue, several bugs, and add enhancements are now available for Red Hat Enterprise MRG 2.2. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having moderate security impact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which...

Scientific Linux Security Update : glibc on SL6.x i386/x86_64 (20120315)

The glibc packages provide the standard C and standard math libraries used by multiple programs on the system. Without these libraries, the Linux system cannot function correctly. An integer overflow flaw was found in the implementation of the printf functions family. This could allow an attacker...

Scientific Linux Security Update : kernel on SL4.x i386/x86_64

CVE-2005-4881 kernel: netlink: fix numerous padding memleaks CVE-2009-3228 kernel: tc: uninitialised kernel memory leak This update fixes the following security issues : - multiple, missing initialization flaws were found in the Linux kernel. Padding data in several core network structures was no...

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,...

Scientific Linux Security Update : kernel for SL 5.x on i386/x86_64

CVE-2007-5966 kernel: non-root can trigger cpuidle soft lockup CVE-2009-1385 kernel: e1000cleanrxirq denial of service CVE-2009-1388 kernel: docoredump vs ptracestart deadlock CVE-2009-1389 kernel: r8169: fix crash when large packets are received CVE-2009-1895 kernel: personality: fix...

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

The libvirt library is a C API for managing and interacting with the virtualization capabilities of Linux and other operating systems. An integer overflow flaw was found in libvirtd's RPC call handling. An attacker able to establish read-only connections to libvirtd could trigger this flaw by...

Scientific Linux Security Update : kernel on SL6.x i386/x86_64

The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system. Security fix : - Using the SGIO IOCTL to issue SCSI requests to partitions or LVM volumes resulted in the requests being passed to the underlying block device. If a privileged user only had access to a single...

Scientific Linux Security Update : kernel on SL4.x i386/x86_64

Security fixes : - 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 server if a file descriptor was clos...

RedHat Update for glibc RHSA-2012:0393-01

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",...

kernel security update

kernel: 2.6.18-308.8.2.el5 - xen x8664: check address on trap handlers or guest callbacks Paolo Bonzini 813430 813431 CVE-2012-0217 - xen x8664: Do not execute sysret with a non-canonical return address Paolo Bonzini 813430 813431 CVE-2012-0217 - xen x86: prevent hv boot on AMD CPUs with Erratum...

SuSE 10 Security Update : openssl (ZYPP Patch Number 8143)

This update of openssl fixes the following denial of service vulnerabilities : - Denial of Service via CBC mode handling. CVE-2012-2333 - A deadlock condition introduced by the previous memory leak fix due to entering a lock twice. This would only happen in multithreaded programs. In addition,...

MDVA-2012:046 : initscripts

Xorg and chvt 1 call in /etc/rc.d/rc can be deadlocking one another if shutdown is requested using ACPI or any other mean, which will cause X to stop while, at the same time, /etc/rc.d/rc0/6 is running, causing chvt 1 to be called. When this happen, chvt call is blocked and shutdown / reboot...

SuSE 10 Security Update : Linux kernel (x86_64) (ZYPP Patch Number 2096)

This kernel update fixes the following security problems : - A double userspace copy in a SCTP ioctl allows local attackers to overflow a buffer in the kernel, potentially allowing code execution and privilege escalation. 199441. CVE-2006-3745 - Local attackers were able to crash PowerPC systems...

SuSE 10 Security Update : Linux kernel (ZYPP Patch Number 2605)

This kernel update fixes the following security problems : - The ftdisio driver allowed local users to cause a denial of service memory consumption by writing more data to the serial port than the hardware can handle, which causes the data to be queued. This requires this driver to be loaded, whi...

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...

SuSE 10 Security Update : Linux kernel (ZYPP Patch Number 7915)

This Linux kernel update fixes various security issues and bugs in the SUSE Linux Enterprise 10 SP4 kernel. This update fixes the following security issues : - X.25 remote DoS. CVE-2010-3873. bnc651219 - X.25 remote Dos. CVE-2010-4164. bnc653260 - 1 socket local DoS. CVE-2010-4249. bnc655696 -...

CentOS 6 : glibc (CESA-2012:0393)

Updated glibc packages that fix one security issue and three bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having moderate security impact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity...