Unbreakable Enterprise kernel Security update

2.6.39-400.17.2 - x86/msr: Add capabilities check Alan Cox Orabug: 16405007 CVE-2013-0268...

kernel security and bug fix update

2.6.32-358.2.1 - kernel utrace: ensure archptrace/ptracerequest can never race with SIGKILL Oleg Nesterov 912073 912074 CVE-2013-0871 2.6.32-358.1.1 - netdrv mlx4: Set number of msix vectors under SRIOV mode to firmware defaults Michal Schmidt 911663 904726 - netdrv mlx4: Fix bridged vSwitch...

kernel security update

kernel 2.6.18-348.3.1 - utrace ensure archptrace can never race with SIGKILL Oleg Nesterov 912071 912072 CVE-2013-0871 - x86 msr: Add capabilities check Nikola Pajkovsky 908696 908697 CVE-2013-0268...

PT-2013-2201 · Linux +4 · Linux Kernel +4

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Linux kernel versions prior to 3.7.6 Description: The issue allows local users to bypass intended capability restrictions by executing a crafted application as root. This is demonstrated by the msr32.c application, which exploits the msr open...

California Man Gets 6 Years for Laundering

A Long Beach, California man who helped funnel stolen cash to a global network of hackers and carders was sentenced Thursday to 6 years in prison for conspiracy to launder money. Cesar Carranza, 38, sold MSR-206’s to carders to encode stolen bank card data onto blank cards, and he served as a...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: kvm security and bug fix update

Updated kvm packages that fix multiple 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. KVM Kernel-based Virtual Machine is a full virtualization solution for...

netOctopus Agent nantsys.sys MSR Write Local Privilege Escalation

netOctopus Agent, an asset management agent, is installed on the remote host. The installed version of netOctopus Agent includes a driver, named 'nantsys.sys', that exposes a device interface writable by all local users, allowing them to read and write arbitrary CPU Model Specific Registers MSRs....

Important: kernel security update

2.6.18-8.1.14.0.2.el5 - Fix bonding primary=ethX Bert Barbe IT 101532 ORA 5136660 - Add entropy module option to e1000/bnx2 John Sobecki ORA 6045759 2.6.18-8.1.14.el5 - Revert changes back to 2.6.18-8.1.10. - x8664 Zero extend all registers after ptrace in 32bit entry path Anton Arapov 297871...

CVE-2007-3107

The signal handling in the Linux kernel before 2.6.22, including 2.6.2, when running on PowerPC systems using HTX, allows local users to cause a denial of service via unspecified vectors involving floating point corruption and concurrency, related to clearing of MSR bits...

CVE-2001-1392

The Linux kernel before 2.2.19 does not have unregister calls for 1 CPUID and 2 MSR drivers, which could cause a DoS crash by unloading and reloading the drivers...

CVE-2001-1392

The Linux kernel before 2.2.19 does not have unregister calls for 1 CPUID and 2 MSR drivers, which could cause a DoS crash by unloading and reloading the drivers...

PT-2011-5208 · Systemtap +7 · Systemtap-Debuginfo +21

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Linux kernel versions prior to 3.8.4 systemtap-runtime-debuginfo affected versions not specified systemtap-sdt-devel affected versions not specified systemtap affected versions not specified libvmtools0 affected versions not specified...