kernel: ASLR bruteforce possible for vdso library

An information leak flaw was found in the way the Linux kernel's Virtual Dynamic Shared Object vDSO implementation performed address randomization. A local, unprivileged user could use this flaw to leak kernel memory addresses to user-space...

USN-2700-1 linux vulnerabilities

Andy Lutomirski discovered a flaw in the Linux kernel's handling of nested NMIs non-maskable interrupts. An unprivileged local user could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service system crash or potentially escalate their privileges. CVE-2015-3290 Andy Lutomirski discovered a flaw that allo...

Kernel: missing check during hugepage migration

A flaw was found in the way Linux kernel's Transparent Huge Pages THP implementation handled non-huge page migration. A local, unprivileged user could use this flaw to crash the kernel by migrating transparent hugepages...

kernel: net: rds: dereference of a NULL device in rds_ib_laddr_check()

A NULL pointer dereference flaw was found in the rdsibladdrcheck function in the Linux kernel's implementation of Reliable Datagram Sockets RDS. A local, unprivileged user could use this flaw to crash the system...

kernel: net: rds: dereference of a NULL device in rds_ib_laddr_check()

A NULL pointer dereference flaw was found in the rdsibladdrcheck function in the Linux kernel's implementation of Reliable Datagram Sockets RDS. A local, unprivileged user could use this flaw to crash the system...

RHEL 5 : kvm (RHSA-2014:0163)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 5 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2014:0163 advisory. KVM Kernel-based Virtual Machine is a full virtualization solution for Linux on AMD64 and Intel 64 systems. KVM is a Linux kernel module bui...

Updated busybox package fixes security vulnerability

It was found that the mdev BusyBox utility could create certain directories within /dev with world-writable permissions. A local unprivileged user could use this flaw to manipulate portions of the /dev directory tree CVE-2013-1813...

Oracle Linux 4 : kernel (ELSA-2008-0237)

From Red Hat Security Advisory 2008:0237 : Updated kernel packages that fix various security issues and several bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4. This update has been rated as having important security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team. The kernel packages contain...

Oracle Linux 3 : kernel (ELSA-2008-0211)

From Red Hat Security Advisory 2008:0211 : Updated kernel packages that fix various security issues and several bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3. This update has been rated as having important security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team. The kernel packages contain...

Oracle Linux 4 : kernel (ELSA-2008-0508)

From Red Hat Security Advisory 2008:0508 : Updated kernel packages that fix several security issues and a bug are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4. This update has been rated as having important security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team. The kernel packages contain the Lin...

Scientific Linux Security Update : kernel on SL3.x i386/x86_64

These updated packages fix the following security issues : - the absence of a protection mechanism when attempting to access a critical section of code has been found in the Linux kernel open file descriptors control mechanism, fcntl. This could allow a local unprivileged user to simultaneously...

Ubuntu Update for linux-lts-backport-oneiric USN-1294-1

Ubuntu Update for Linux kernel vulnerabilities USN-1294-1 OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: gbubuntuUSN12941.nasl 7964 2017-12-01 07:32:11Z santu $ Ubuntu Update for linux-lts-backport-oneiric USN-1294-1 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2011 Greenbone Networks GmbH,...

CVE-2011-2498

The Linux kernel from v2.3.36 before v2.6.39 allows local unprivileged users to cause a denial of service memory consumption by triggering creation of PTE pages...

CentOS 4 : kernel (CESA-2008:0237)

Updated kernel packages that fix various security issues and several bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4. This update has been rated as having important security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team. The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux...

CentOS 5 : kernel (CESA-2008:0612)

Updated kernel packages that fix various security issues and several bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. This update has been rated as having important security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team. The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux...

Fedora Core 12 FEDORA-2009-13039 (kernel)

The remote host is missing an update to the kernel announced via advisory FEDORA-2009-13039. Note: This VT has been deprecated and is therefore no longer functional. SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2009 E-Soft Inc. Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C b...

virtualbox -- privilege escalation

Sun reports: A security vulnerability in the VBoxNetAdpCtl configuration tool for certain Sun VirtualBox 3.0 packages may allow local unprivileged users who are authorized to run VirtualBox to execute arbitrary commands with root privileges...

openSUSE Security Update : libvirt (libvirt-373)

libvirt misses some read-only connection checks for certain methods. This flaw enables local unprivileged users for example to migrate virtual machines without authentication CVE-2008-5086. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin...

RedHat Update for kernel RHSA-2008:0612-01

Check for the Version of kernel OpenVAS Vulnerability Test RedHat Update for kernel RHSA-2008:0612-01 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2009 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the ter...

RedHat Update for kernel RHSA-2008:0237-01

Check for the Version of kernel OpenVAS Vulnerability Test RedHat Update for kernel RHSA-2008:0237-01 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2009 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the ter...