Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-2948-2)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2016 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...

Ubuntu 15.10 : linux vulnerabilities (USN-2947-1)

Ralf Spenneberg discovered that the usbvision driver in the Linux kernel did not properly sanity check the interfaces and endpoints reported by the device. An attacker with physical access could cause a denial of service system crash. CVE-2015-7833 Venkatesh Pottem discovered a use-after-free...

Ubuntu 15.10 : linux-raspi2 vulnerabilities (USN-2947-3)

Ralf Spenneberg discovered that the usbvision driver in the Linux kernel did not properly sanity check the interfaces and endpoints reported by the device. An attacker with physical access could cause a denial of service system crash. CVE-2015-7833 Venkatesh Pottem discovered a use-after-free...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-2947-3)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2016 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...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-2949-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2016 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...

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : Linux kernel (Vivid HWE) vulnerabilities (USN-2949-1)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-2949-1 advisory. Venkatesh Pottem discovered a use-after-free vulnerability in the Linux kernel's CXGB3 driver. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of servi...

USN-2947-3: Linux kernel (Raspberry Pi 2) vulnerabilities

Ralf Spenneberg discovered that the usbvision driver in the Linux kernel did not properly validate the interfaces and endpoints reported by the device. An attacker with physical access could cause a denial of service system crash. CVE-2015-7833 Venkatesh Pottem discovered a use-after-free...

USN-2947-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Ralf Spenneberg discovered that the usbvision driver in the Linux kernel did not properly validate the interfaces and endpoints reported by the device. An attacker with physical access could cause a denial of service system crash. CVE-2015-7833 Venkatesh Pottem discovered a use-after-free...

USN-2946-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Venkatesh Pottem discovered a use-after-free vulnerability in the Linux kernel's CXGB3 driver. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service system crash or possibly execute arbitrary code. CVE-2015-8812 Xiaofei Rex Guo discovered a timing side channel vulnerability in the Linux...

Amazon Linux AMI : kernel (ALAS-2016-669)

When running as a Xen 64-bit PV guest, user mode processes not supposed to be able to access I/O ports may be granted such permission, potentially resulting in one or more of in-guest privilege escalation, guest crashes Denial of Service, or in-guest information leaks. CVE-2016-3157 In some cases...

Medium: kernel

Issue Overview: When running as a Xen 64-bit PV guest, user mode processes not supposed to be able to access I/O ports may be granted such permission, potentially resulting in one or more of in-guest privilege escalation, guest crashes Denial of Service, or in-guest information leaks. CVE-2016-31...

CVE-2013-1958

The scmcheckcreds function in net/core/scm.c in the Linux kernel before 3.8.6 does not properly enforce capability requirements for controlling the PID value associated with a UNIX domain socket, which allows local users to bypass intended access restrictions by leveraging the time interval durin...

GNOME esound 0.2.19 Unix Domain Socket Race Condition Vulnerability

No description provided by source. source: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1659/info EsounD, part of the GNOME desktop environment, is a server process allowing several applications to share the same sound hardware. Versions of esound up to and including 0.2.19 create a world-writable directory...

FreeBSD <= 3.1,Solaris <= 2.6 Domain Socket Vulnerability

No description provided by source. source: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/456/info Solaris 2.6 and many other unices/clones have a serious problem with their unix domain socket implementation that has it's origins in old BSD code. Any unix socket created by any application is set mode 4777. In...

SSH Communications Security SSH 1.2.27 Authentication Socket File Creation Vulnerability

No description provided by source. source: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/660/info A vulnerability in SSH's creation of the authentication agent UNIX domain socket allows local users to create a UNIX domain socket with an arbitrary file name in the system. SSH has the concept of authentication...

Updated php packages fix CVE-2014-0185

Updated php packages fix security vulnerability: PHP FPM in PHP versions before 5.4.28 and 5.5.12 uses a UNIX domain socket with world-writable permissions by default, which allows any local user to connect to it and execute PHP scripts as the apache user CVE-2014-0185. Additionally updated...

ocaml xenstored mishandles oversized message replies

ISSUE DESCRIPTION The Ocaml xenstored implementation "oxenstored" cannot correctly handle a message reply larger than XENSTOREPAYLOADSIZE when communicating with a client domain via the shared ring mechanism. When this situation occurs the connection to the client domain will be shutdown and cann...

Oracle Linux 5 : Moderate: / gdm (ELSA-2007-0777)

The remote Oracle Linux 5 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ELSA-2007-0777 advisory. 2.16.0-31.0.1 - CVE-2007-3381 Resolves: 247659 2.16.0-31 - change 200d character to 200c character in ml.po Tenable has extracted the preceding description bloc...

Updated qemu packages fix security vulnerability

It was found that QEMU Guest Agent the "qemu-ga" service created certain files with world-writable permissions when run in daemon mode the default mode. An unprivileged guest user could use this flaw to consume all free space on the partition containing the qemu-ga log file, or modify the content...

qemu security update

CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-2013:0896 Updated qemu-kvm packages that fix one security issue and two 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 Syste...