Privilege Escalation

kernel-rt is vulnerable to privilege escalation. A buffer overflow flaw was found in the way UTF-8 characters were converted to UTF-16 in the utf8stoutf16s function of the Linux kernel's FAT file system implementation. A local user able to mount a FAT file system with the "utf8=1" option could us...

Microsoft Windows: Access to BitLocker-protected fixed data drives (earlier Windows versions)

This test checks the setting for policy OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: winaccessprotecteddrives.nasl 11532 2018-09-21 19:07:30Z cfischer $ Check value for Allow access to BitLocker-protected fixed data drives from earlier versions of Windows Authors: Emanuel Moss Copyright: Copyright c 2018...

Partclone Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

Partclone is a set of open source tools written in C for partition cloning and recovery. A heap buffer overflow vulnerability exists in the partclone.fat file in versions prior to Partclone 0.2.88, which stems from the program's failure to adequately verify the FAT superblock. An attacker can...

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

Updated kernel packages that fix multiple security issues and several bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.2 Extended Update Support. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having important security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base scores...

kernel, perf, python security update

CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-2013:0744 Updated kernel packages that fix multiple 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 important security impact. Common Vulnerability Scorin...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : sleuthkit (MDVSA-2013:125)

Updated sleuthkit packages fix security vulnerabilities : A security flaw was found in the way the Sleuth Kit TSK, a collection of UNIX-based command line tools allowing to investigate a computer, performed management of '.' dotfile file system entry. An attacker could use this flaw to evade...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: kernel-rt security and bug fix update

Updated kernel-rt packages that fix several security issues and multiple bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise MRG 2.3. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having important security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base scores, which give detailed...

PT-2013-3382 · Linux +4 · Linux Kernel +4

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Linux kernel versions prior to 3.3 Description: The issue is related to a buffer overflow in the VFAT filesystem implementation. It allows local users to gain privileges or cause a denial of service, resulting in a system crash. This occurs...

VFAT compat ioctls DoS on 64-bit

The VFAT compat ioctls in the Linux kernel before 2.6.21.2, when run on a 64-bit system, allow local users to corrupt a kerneldirent struct and cause a denial of service system crash via unknown vectors...

windows-FAT-recursion.txt

Windows FAT Filesystem Advisory It appears that Windows' FAT file system can be messed up by creating a long enough series of recursive directories. After a certain point is reached, directories cannot be deleted. Because each directory added to the file allocation takes up a certain amount of...