Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: Updated Itanium kernel packages resolve security issues

Updated Itanium kernel packages are now available as part of ongoing support and maintenance of Red Hat Enterprise Linux version 2.1. This is the sixth regular update. The Linux kernel handles the basic functions of the operating system. This is the sixth regular Itanium kernel update to Red Hat...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: Updated kernel packages fix security vulnerability

Updated kernel packages are now available as part of ongoing support and maintenance of Red Hat Enterprise Linux version 2.1. This is the sixth regular update. The Linux kernel handles the basic functions of the operating system. This is the sixth regular kernel update to Red Hat Enterprise Linux...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: kernel security update

Updated kernel packages that fix several security issues in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 are now available. The Linux kernel handles the basic functions of the operating system. This update includes fixes for several security issues: A missing serialization flaw in unixdgramrecvmsg was discovered...

security flaw

The loadelfbinary function in the binfmtelf loader binfmtelf.c in Linux kernel 2.4.x up to 2.4.27, and 2.6.x up to 2.6.8, does not properly check return values from calls to the kernelread function, which may allow local users to modify sensitive memory in a setuid program and execute arbitrary...

File 3.x - Local Stack Overflow Code Execution (1)

File 3.x - Local Stack Overflow Code Execution 1 // source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/7008/info It has been reported that a stack overflow exists in the file program. Although details of this issue are currently unavailable, it is likely that this issue could be exploited to execute code ...