glibc security, bug fix, and enhancement update

2.17-105.0.1 - Remove strstr and strcasestr implementations using sse4.2 instructions. - Upstream commits 584b18eb4df61ccd447db2dfe8c8a7901f8c8598 and 1818483b15d22016b0eae41d37ee91cc87b37510 backported. 2.17-105 - Fix up test case for initial-exec fix 1248208. 2.17-104 - Mark all TLS variables i...

Low: Red Hat Security Advisory: libssh2 security and bug fix update

Updated libssh2 packages that fix one security issue and two bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having Low security impact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is...

USN-2777-1 linux-lts-utopic vulnerabilities

It was discovered that virtio networking in the Linux kernel did not handle fragments correctly, leading to kernel memory corruption. A remote attacker could use this to cause a denial of service system crash or possibly execute code with administrative privileges. CVE-2015-5156 Benjamin Randazzo...

DEBIAN-CVE-2015-6252

The vhostdevioctl function in drivers/vhost/vhost.c in the Linux kernel before 4.1.5 allows local users to cause a denial of service memory consumption via a VHOSTSETLOGFD ioctl call that triggers permanent file-descriptor allocation...

CVE-2015-6252

The vhostdevioctl function in drivers/vhost/vhost.c in the Linux kernel before 4.1.5 allows local users to cause a denial of service memory consumption via a VHOSTSETLOGFD ioctl call that triggers permanent file-descriptor allocation...

CVE-2015-6252

The vhostdevioctl function in drivers/vhost/vhost.c in the Linux kernel before 4.1.5 allows local users to cause a denial of service memory consumption via a VHOSTSETLOGFD ioctl call that triggers permanent file-descriptor allocation...

File Descriptor Leak Can Cause DoS Vulnerability

Overview Versions 2.0.x and 2.1.x of hapi are vulnerable to a denial of service attack via a file descriptor leak. When triggered repeatedly, this leak will cause the server to run out of file descriptors and the node process to die. The effort required to take down a server depends on the proces...

Oracle: Security Advisory (ELSA-2015-3037)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2015 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...

SUSE SLED11 / SLES11 Security Update : kernel-source (SUSE-SU-2015:1678-1)

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 SP4 kernel was updated to receive various security and bugfixes. Following security bugs were fixed : - CVE-2015-6252: Possible file descriptor leak for each VHOSTSETLOGFDcommand issued, this could eventually wasting available system resources and creating a denial of...

Code injection

Cisco Email Security Appliance ESA 8.5.6-106 and 9.6.0-042 allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service file-descriptor consumption and device reload via crafted HTTP requests, aka Bug ID CSCuw32211...

PT-2015-7172

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Cisco Email Security Appliance ESA versions 8.5.6-106 through 9.6.0-042 Description The issue allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service, resulting in file-descriptor consumption and device reload, via crafted HTTP requests...

CVE-2015-6309: Undefined Security Weakness

Cisco Email Security Appliance ESA 8.5.6-106 and 9.6.0-042 allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service file-descriptor consumption and device reload via crafted HTTP requests, aka Bug ID CSCuw32211...

Cisco Email Security Appliance Max Files Denial of Service Vulnerability

A vulnerability in file descriptor handling of the Cisco Email Security Appliance ESA could allow an authenticated, remote attacker to cause a denial of service DoS condition due to the affected device unexpectedly reloading. The vulnerability is due to failure to release file descriptors when th...

USN-2751-1 linux-lts-vivid vulnerabilities

Benjamin Randazzo discovered an information leak in the md multiple device driver when the bitmapinfo.file is disabled. A local privileged attacker could use this to obtain sensitive information from the kernel. CVE-2015-5697 Marc-André Lureau discovered that the vhost driver did not properly...

Gentoo Security Advisory GLSA 201412-20

Gentoo Linux Local Security Checks GLSA 201412-20 SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2015 Eero Volotinen 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-or-later ifdescription...

Gentoo Security Advisory GLSA 201309-18

Gentoo Linux Local Security Checks GLSA 201309-18 SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2015 Eero Volotinen 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-or-later ifdescription...

Bash: How to open TCP/UDP sockets

How to open TCP/UDP sockets using a built-in feature in Bash ? Bash shell has a built-in feature that allows to open TCP/UDP sockets using a simple syntax. This is very useful when tools like netcat are not installed or we don’t have the permission to use it. The syntax is $ exec...

SUSE-SU-2015:1678-1 Security update for kernel-source

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 SP4 kernel was updated to receive various security and bugfixes. Following security bugs were fixed: CVE-2015-6252: Possible file descriptor leak for each VHOSTSETLOGFDcommand issued, this could eventually wasting available system resources and creating a denial of...

CVE-2015-6252

The vhostdevioctl function in drivers/vhost/vhost.c in the Linux kernel before 4.1.5 allows local users to cause a denial of service memory consumption via a VHOSTSETLOGFD ioctl call that triggers permanent file-descriptor allocation...

UBUNTU-CVE-2015-6252

The vhostdevioctl function in drivers/vhost/vhost.c in the Linux kernel before 4.1.5 allows local users to cause a denial of service memory consumption via a VHOSTSETLOGFD ioctl call that triggers permanent file-descriptor allocation...