CentOS 5 : kernel (CESA-2016:0450)

Updated kernel packages that fix two security issues and two bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having Important security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base scores, which give detailed severity ratings, are...

CentOS Update for kernel CESA-2016:0450 centos5

Check the version of kernel 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 scriptoid"1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.882425";...

kernel security update

CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-2016:0450 Updated kernel packages that fix two security issues and two bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having Important security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base...

Scientific Linux Security Update : kernel on SL5.x i386/x86_64 (20160315)

An integer overflow flaw was found in the way the Linux kernel's Frame Buffer device implementation mapped kernel memory to user space via the mmap syscall. A local user able to access a frame buffer device file /dev/fb could possibly use this flaw to escalate their privileges on the system...

RHEL 5 : kernel (RHSA-2016:0450)

Updated kernel packages that fix two security issues and two bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having Important security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base scores, which give detailed severity ratings, are...

FreeBSD -- Incorrect argument validation in sysarch(2)

Problem Description: A special combination of sysarch2 arguments, specify a request to uninstall a set of descriptors from the LDT. The start descriptor is cleared and the number of descriptors are provided. Due to lack of sufficient bounds checking during argument validity verification, unbound...

Oracle Linux 5 : kernel (ELSA-2016-0450)

The remote Oracle Linux 5 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2016-0450 advisory. - fb vm: convert fbmmap to vmiomapmemory helper Jacob Tanenbaum 1035240 CVE-2013-2596 - s390 add dummy ioremappfnrange to asm-s390/pgtable.h Jacob...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: kernel security update

Updated kernel packages that fix two security issues and two bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having Important security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base scores, which give detailed severity ratings, are...

Linux Kernel 3.x (Ubuntu 14.04 Mint 17.3 Fedora 22) - Double-free usb-midi SMEP Privilege Escalation

Linux Kernel 3.x Ubuntu 14.04 Mint 17.3 Fedora 22 - Double-free usb-midi SMEP Privilege Escalation Source: https://xairy.github.io/blog/2016/cve-2016-2384 Source: https://github.com/xairy/kernel-exploits/tree/master/CVE-2016-2384 Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lfl1NJn1nvo Exploit-DB Note...

Null pointer dereference

The Stream Control Transmission Protocol SCTP module in FreeBSD 9.3 before p33, 10.1 before p26, and 10.2 before p9, when the kernel is configured for IPv6, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service assertion failure or NULL pointer dereference and kernel panic via a crafted ICMPv6...

Apple Mac OSX iOS - Unsandboxable Kernel Code Exection Due to iokit Double Release in IOKit

Apple Mac OSX iOS - Unsandboxable Kernel Code Exection Due to iokit Double Release in IOKit Source: https://code.google.com/p/google-security-research/issues/detail?id=620 I wanted to demonstrate that these iOS/OS X kernel race condition really are exploitable so here's a PoC which gets RIP on OS...

Apple Mac OSX - IOHDIXControllerUserClient::convertClient Buffer Integer Overflow

Apple Mac OSX - IOHDIXControllerUserClient::convertClient Buffer Integer Overflow / Source: https://code.google.com/p/google-security-research/issues/detail?id=511 Method 5 of the IOHDIXController user client is createDrive64. This takes a 0x100 byte structure input from which it reads a userspac...

Apple Mac OSX - 'IntelAccelerator::gstqConfigure' Kernel NULL Dereference

/ Source: https://code.google.com/p/google-security-research/issues/detail?id=595 The field at IntelAccelerator+0xe60 is a pointer to a GSTContextKernel allocated in the ::gstqCreateInfoMethod. In the ::start method this field is initialized to NULL. The IGAccelDevice external method gstconfigure...

FreeBSD Patches Kernel Panic Vulnerability

FreeBSD has patched a denial-of-service vulnerability affecting versions configured to support SCTP and IPv6, the default configurations on later version of the open source OS. Researchers at Positive Technologies in the U.K. said versions 9.3, 10.1 and 10.2 are affected and can be exploited by a...

FreeBSD SCTP ICMPv6 - Error Processing

FreeBSD SCTP ICMPv6 - Error Processing !/usr/bin/env python -- coding: utf-8 -- ''' Source: http://blog.ptsecurity.com/2016/01/severe-vulnerabilities-detected-in.html SCTP stream control transmission protocol is a transport-layer protocol designed to transfer signaling messages in an IP...

FreeBSD-SA-16:01.sctp

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 ============================================================================= FreeBSD-SA-16:01.sctp Security Advisory The FreeBSD Project Topic: SCTP ICMPv6 error message vulnerability Category: core Module: SCTP Announced: 2016-01-14 Credits:...

FreeBSD -- SCTP ICMPv6 error message vulnerability

Problem Description: A lack of proper input checks in the ICMPv6 processing in the SCTP stack can lead to either a failed kernel assertion or to a NULL pointer dereference. In either case, a kernel panic will follow. Impact: A remote, unauthenticated attacker can reliably trigger a kernel panic i...

RedHat Update for kernel RHSA-2015:2552-01

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...

Debian DLA-360-1 : linux-2.6 security update

This update fixes the CVEs described below. CVE-2013-7446 Dmitry Vyukov discovered that a particular sequence of valid operations on local AFUNIX sockets can result in a use-after-free. This may be used to cause a denial of service crash or possibly for privilege escalation. CVE-2015-7799...

[SECURITY] [DLA 360-1] linux-2.6 security update

Package : linux-2.6 Version : 2.6.32-48squeeze17 CVE ID : CVE-2013-7446 CVE-2015-7799 CVE-2015-7833 CVE-2015-7990 CVE-2015-8324 This update fixes the CVEs described below. CVE-2013-7446 Dmitry Vyukov discovered that a particular sequence of valid...