Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : sgml-tools (MDKSA-2001:030-1)

Insecure handling of temporary file permissions can lead to other users on a multi-user system being able to read the documents being converted. This is due to sgml-tools creating temporary files without any special permissions. The updated packages create a secure temporary directory first, whic...

Fedora 17 : qemu-1.0.1-1.fc17 (2012-11302)

Fix systemtap tapsets bz 831763 - Fix VNC audio tunnelling bz 840653 - CVE-2012-2652: Possible symlink attacks with -snapshot bz 825697, bz 824919 - Don't renable ksm on update bz 815156 - Bump usbredir dep bz 812097 - Fix RPM install error on non-virt machines bz 660629 - Obsolete openbios to...

kernel: epoll: can leak file descriptors when returning -ELOOP

The epollctl system call in fs/eventpoll.c in the Linux kernel before 3.2.24 does not properly handle ELOOP errors in EPOLLCTLADD operations, which allows local users to cause a denial of service file-descriptor consumption and system crash via a crafted application that attempts to create a...

Fedora 17 : xen-4.1.2-24.fc17 (2012-11182)

in rare circumstances an unprivileged user can crash an HVM guest XSA-10 843766, remove a dependency on PyXML and Require python-lxml instead of PyXML 842843 adjust systemd service files not to report failures when running without a hypervisor or when xendomains.service doesn't find anything to...

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

CVE-2008-5161 OpenSSH: Plaintext Recovery Attack against CBC ciphers A flaw was found in the SSH protocol. An attacker able to perform a man-in-the-middle attack may be able to obtain a portion of plain text from an arbitrary ciphertext block when a CBC mode cipher was used to encrypt SSH...

Mozilla: JSDependentString:: undepend string conversion results in memory corruption (MFSA 2012-52)

Use-after-free vulnerability in the JSDependentString::undepend function in Mozilla Firefox 4.x through 13.0, Firefox ESR 10.x before 10.0.6, Thunderbird 5.0 through 13.0, Thunderbird ESR 10.x before 10.0.6, and SeaMonkey before 2.11 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service memory...

MDM Mobile Device Dependency Lock

Binary data mdmdependencylock.nbin...

kernel: epoll: can leak file descriptors when returning -ELOOP

The epollctl system call in fs/eventpoll.c in the Linux kernel before 3.2.24 does not properly handle ELOOP errors in EPOLLCTLADD operations, which allows local users to cause a denial of service file-descriptor consumption and system crash via a crafted application that attempts to create a...

PT-2012-1190 · Linux +2 · Linux Kernel +2

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Linux kernel versions prior to 3.2.24 Description: The epoll ctl system call in fs/eventpoll.c does not properly handle ELOOP errors in EPOLL CTL ADD operations, allowing local users to cause a denial of service file-descriptor consumption an...

UBUNTU-CVE-2012-3375

The epollctl system call in fs/eventpoll.c in the Linux kernel before 3.2.24 does not properly handle ELOOP errors in EPOLLCTLADD operations, which allows local users to cause a denial of service file-descriptor consumption and system crash via a crafted application that attempts to create a...

[SECURITY] Fedora 17 Update: python-virtualenvwrapper-3.2-3.fc17

virtualenvwrapper is a set of extensions to Ian Bicking's virtualenv tool. The extensions include wrappers for creating and deleting virtual environments and otherwise managing your development workflow, making it easier to work on more than one project at a time without introducing conflicts in...

[SECURITY] Fedora 17 Update: systemd-44-6.fc17

systemd is a system and service manager for Linux, compatible with SysV and LSB init scripts. systemd provides aggressive parallelization capabilities, uses socket and D-Bus activation for starting services, offers on-demand starting of daemons, keeps track of processes using Linux cgroups,...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : gnutls (MDVSA-2012:040)

A vulnerability has been found and corrected in GnuTLS : gnutlscipher.c in libgnutls in GnuTLS before 2.12.17 and 3.x before 3.0.15 does not properly handle data encrypted with a block cipher, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service heap memory corruption and application crash...

Fedora Update for systemd FEDORA-2012-4024

Check for the Version of systemd OpenVAS Vulnerability Test Fedora Update for systemd FEDORA-2012-4024 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2012 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the...

glibc, nscd security update

CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 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...

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

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...

[SECURITY] Fedora 16 Update: systemd-37-15.fc16

systemd is a system and service manager for Linux, compatible with SysV and LSB init scripts. systemd provides aggressive parallelization capabilities, uses socket and D-Bus activation for starting services, offers on-demand starting of daemons, keeps track of processes using Linux cgroups,...

systemtap security update

1.6-5.0.1.el62 - remove doc/SystemTapBeginnersGuide/en-US in tarball - comment bz683569.patch in specfile - remove buildtime dependency on package publican-redhat 1.6-5 - CVE-2012-0875...

Low: Red Hat Bug Fix Advisory: libvirt bug fix and enhancement update

Updated libvirt packages that fix multiple bugs and add two enhancements are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. The libvirt library is a C API for managing and interacting with the virtualization capabilities of Linux and other operating systems. These updated libvirt packages include...

Mandriva Update for php-pear MDVSA-2011:187 (php-pear)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2011 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",...