grsecurity Kernel Patch 1.9.4 Linux Kernel Memory Protection Weakness

No description provided by source. source: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/4762/info An attacker with root access may be able to write to kernel memory in spite of the security patch provided by grsecurity. The patch operates by redirecting the write system call, when it is being used to write t...

[oss-security] CVE request -- Linux kernel: sctp: sk_ack_backlog wrap-around problem

Description of the problem: For a TCP-style socket, while processing the COOKIEECHO chunk in sctpsfdo51Dce, after it has passed a series of sanity check, a new association would be created in sctpunpackcookie, but afterwards, some processing maybe failed, and sctpassociationfree will be called to...

[oss-security] CVE-2014-0206 -- Linux kernel: kernel memory disclosure in io_getevents()

A kernel memory disclosure was introduced in aioreadeventsring in v3.10 by commit a31ad380bed817aa25f8830ad23e1a0480fef797. The changes made to aioreadeventsring failed to correctly limit the index into ctx-ringpages, allowing an attacker to cause the subsequent kmap of an arbitrary page with a...

SuSE 11.2 Security Update : Linux kernel (SAT Patch Numbers 8865 / 8868 / 8875)

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 Service Pack 2 kernel was updated to fix a regression introduced by the previous update : - scsidhalua: Incorrect reference counting in the SCSI ALUA initialization code lead to system crashes on boot bnc858831. As the update introducing the regression was marked...

MGASA-2014-0044 Updated kernel-rt packages fix multiple vulnerabilities

This kernel update provides an update to the 3.10 longterm branch, currently 3.10.28 and fixes the following security issues: The ath9khtcsetbssidmask function in drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/htcdrvmain.c in the Linux kernel through 3.12 uses a BSSID masking approach to determine the set of MAC...

RedHat Update for kernel RHSA-2014:0108-01

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2014 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...

Solaris 10 (sparc) : 150400-06

SunOS 5.10: Kernel Patch. Date this patch was last updated by Sun : Dec/13/13 %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 @DEPRECATED@ This script has been deprecated as the associated patch is has been withdrawn. Disabled on 2014/02/12. C Tenable Network Security, Inc. if ! definedfunc"bnrandom" exit0;...

Solaris 10 (x86) : 150401-06

SunOS 5.10x86: Kernel Patch. Date this patch was last updated by Sun : Dec/13/13 %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 @DEPRECATED@ This script has been deprecated as the associated patch is has been withdrawn. Disabled on 2014/02/12. C Tenable Network Security, Inc. if ! definedfunc"bnrandom" exit0;...

kernel: kvm: pv_eoi guest updates with interrupts disabled

A certain Red Hat patch to the KVM subsystem in the kernel package before 2.6.32-358.11.1.el6 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux RHEL 6 does not properly implement the PV EOI feature, which allows guest OS users to cause a denial of service host OS crash by leveraging a time window during which interrup...

RHEL 6 : kernel (RHSA-2013:0841)

Updated kernel packages that fix one security issue are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.1 Extended Update Support. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having important security impact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detail...

Solaris 10 (x86) : 148889-05 (deprecated)

SunOS 5.10x86: kernel patch. Date this patch was last updated by Sun : Jun/28/13 This plugin has been deprecated and either replaced with individual 148889 patch-revision plugins, or deemed non-security related. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. @DEPRECATED@ Disabled on...

Necurs Rootkit Infections Way Up

Infections from a nasty bit of malware, generally delivered by the Black Hole Exploit Kit, surged in November, hitting more than 83,000 machines. Microsoft’s Malware Protection Center rates the Necurs rootkit threat as severe. Dubbed a rootkit by Kaspersky Lab, Necurs has many dimensions to it...

Unbreakable Enterprise kernel Security update

2.6.32-300.38.1 - net/sfc limit number of segments per skb on tx Maxim Uvarov Orabug: 14769994 CVE-2012-3412...

RedHat Update for kernel RHSA-2012:0571-01

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2012 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 scriptxrefname:"URL",...

SuSE9 Security Update : the Linux kernel (YOU Patch Number 12677)

This patch updates the SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9 kernel to fix various security issues and some bugs. The following security issues were fixed : - The hciuartttyopen function in the HCI UART driver drivers/bluetooth/hcildisc.c in the Linux kernel did not verify whether the tty has a write...

Denis Nazarov

Gathering his statistics from the Kaspersky Security Network, Denis Nazarov, head of Kaspersky Lab’s Anti-Malware Research US, compared infection rates on x86 and x64 versions of Windows while describing Kernel Patch Protection technology...

UBUNTU-CVE-2011-3347

A certain Red Hat patch to the be2net implementation in the kernel package before 2.6.32-218.el6 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux RHEL 6, when promiscuous mode is enabled, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service system crash via non-member VLAN packets...

PT-2011-4399 · Red Hat · Red Hat

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Red Hat Enterprise Linux RHEL 6 kernel package versions prior to 2.6.32-218.el6 Description: The issue allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service, resulting in a system crash, by sending non-member VLAN packets when promiscuous mode...

Solaris 10 (x86) : 147441-27

SunOS 5.10x86: Solaris kernel patch. Date this patch was last updated by Sun : Nov/30/12 %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 @DEPRECATED@ This script has been deprecated as the associated patch is not currently a security fix. Disabled on 2013/02/25. C Tenable Network Security, Inc. if ! definedfunc"bnrandom"...

Solaris 10 (sparc) : 147440-15

SunOS 5.10: Solaris kernel patch. Date this patch was last updated by Sun : Apr/17/12 %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 @DEPRECATED@ This script has been deprecated as the associated patch is not currently a security fix. Disabled on 2013/04/30. C Tenable Network Security, Inc. if ! definedfunc"bnrandom" exit0...