x86: CPU lockup during exception delivery

ISSUE DESCRIPTION When a benign exception occurs while delivering another benign exception, it is architecturally specified that these would be delivered sequentially. There are, however, cases where this results in an infinite loop inside the CPU, which in the virtualized case can be broken only...

Certain domctl operations may be abused to lock up the host

ISSUE DESCRIPTION XSA-77 put the majority of the domctl operations on a list excepting them from having security advisories issued for them if any effects their use might have could hamper security. Subsequently some of them got declared disaggregation safe, but for a small subset this was not...

Scientific Linux Security Update : kernel on SL7.x x86_64 (20150305)

A flaw was found in the way the Linux kernel's XFS file system handled replacing of remote attributes under certain conditions. A local user with access to XFS file system mount could potentially use this flaw to escalate their privileges on the system. CVE-2015-0274, Important It was found that...

kernel: soft lockup on aio

It was found that due to excessive fileslock locking, a soft lockup could be triggered in the Linux kernel when performing asynchronous I/O operations. A local, unprivileged user could use this flaw to crash the system...

CVE-2014-8172: Undefined Security Weakness

The filesystem implementation in the Linux kernel before 3.13 performs certain operations on lists of files with an inappropriate locking approach, which allows local users to cause a denial of service soft lockup or system crash via unspecified use of Asynchronous I/O AIO operations...

kernel: soft lockup on aio

It was found that due to excessive fileslock locking, a soft lockup could be triggered in the Linux kernel when performing asynchronous I/O operations. A local, unprivileged user could use this flaw to crash the system...

Cisco IOS XR Software Packet Parsing Denial of Service Vulnerability

A vulnerability in the packet parsing code of Cisco IOS XR Software for ASR 9000 Series Aggregation Services Routers could allow an unauthenticated, adjacent attacker to cause a lockup and eventual reload of a Network Processor NP chip and a line card processing traffic. The vulnerability is due ...

Linux Kernel 2.6.x 'qdisc_run()' Local Denial of Service Vulnerability

No description provided by source. source: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32985/info The Linux kernel is prone to a local denial-of-service vulnerability. Local attackers can exploit this issue to cause a soft lockup, denying service to legitimate users. Versions prior to Linux kernel 2.6.25 ar...

Unbreakable Enterprise kernel security and bug fix update (Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel Release 3 QU1)

3.8.13-26.el6uek - spec: Don't remove crashkernel=auto setting Jerry Snitselaar Orabug: 18137993 3.8.13-25.el6uek - ocfs2: fix imutex deadlock between aiowrite and syncfile Darrick J. Wong Orabug: 18068931 - Revert 'x86, mm: Revert back goodend setting for 64bit' Jerry Snitselaar Orabug: 18128986...

Amazon Linux AMI : bind (ALAS-2012-138)

A flaw was found in the way BIND handled certain combinations of resource records. A remote attacker could use this flaw to cause a recursive resolver, or an authoritative server in certain configurations, to lockup. CVE-2012-5166 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package...

SuSE 11.2 Security Update : bind (SAT Patch Number 6944)

The following issue has been fixed : - Specially crafted RDATA could have caused bind to lockup. This is a different flaw than CVE-2012-4244. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from SuSE 11 update information...

RHEL 5 : kernel (RHSA-2010:0149)

Updated kernel packages that fix three security issues and multiple bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.3 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,...

SuSE Update for bind openSUSE-SU-2012:1372-1 (bind)

Check for the Version of bind OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: gbsuse201213721.nasl 8257 2017-12-29 06:29:46Z teissa $ SuSE Update for bind openSUSE-SU-2012:1372-1 bind Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2012 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This program is fre...

bind: Specially crafted DNS data can cause a lockup in named. (important)

The bind nameserver was updated to fix specially crafted DNS data can cause a lockup in named...

Scientific Linux Security Update : bind97 on SL5.x i386/x86_64 (20121012)

A flaw was found in the way BIND handled certain combinations of resource records. A remote attacker could use this flaw to cause a recursive resolver, or an authoritative server in certain configurations, to lockup. CVE-2012-5166 After installing the update, the BIND daemon named will be restart...

CentOS Update for bind CESA-2012:1363 centos6

Check for the Version of bind OpenVAS Vulnerability Test CentOS Update for bind CESA-2012:1363 centos6 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2012 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the...

bind: Specially crafted DNS data can cause a lockup in named

ISC BIND 9.x before 9.7.6-P4, 9.8.x before 9.8.3-P4, 9.9.x before 9.9.1-P4, and 9.4-ESV and 9.6-ESV before 9.6-ESV-R7-P4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service named daemon hang via unspecified combinations of resource records...

Scientific Linux Security Update : kernel for SL 5.x on i386/x86_64

CVE-2007-5966 kernel: non-root can trigger cpuidle soft lockup CVE-2009-1385 kernel: e1000cleanrxirq denial of service CVE-2009-1388 kernel: docoredump vs ptracestart deadlock CVE-2009-1389 kernel: r8169: fix crash when large packets are received CVE-2009-1895 kernel: personality: fix...

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

These updated packages fix the following security issues : - a possible kernel memory leak was found in the Linux kernel Simple Internet Transition SIT INET6 implementation. This could allow a local unprivileged user to cause a denial of service. CVE-2008-2136, Important - a flaw was found in the...

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

This update fixes the following security issues : - a logic error was found in the dosetlk function of the Linux kernel Network File System NFS implementation. If a signal interrupted a lock request, the local POSIX lock was incorrectly created. This could cause a denial of service on the NFS...