Low: Red Hat Security Advisory: util-linux-ng security, bug fix, and enhancement update

Updated util-linux-ng packages that fix multiple security issues, several bugs, and add various enhancements are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having low security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base...

util-linux: mount fails to anticipate RLIMIT_FSIZE

mount in util-linux 2.19 and earlier attempts to append to the /etc/mtab.tmp file without first checking whether resource limits would interfere, which allows local users to trigger corruption of the /etc/mtab file via a process with a small RLIMITFSIZE value, a related issue to CVE-2011-1089...

kernel: cifs: always do is_path_accessible check in cifs_mount

The setupcifssb function in fs/cifs/connect.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.39 does not properly handle DFS referrals, which allows remote CIFS servers to cause a denial of service system crash by placing a referral at the root of a share...

Calibre E-Book Reader - Local Privilege Escalation (2)

Exploit Title: .60-Calibrer Assault Mount: Another Calibre E-Book Reader Local Root Date: Nov 2, 2011 Author: zx2c4 Software Link: http://calibre-ebook.com/ Tested on: Gentoo Platform: Linux Category: Local CVE: pending !/bin/sh .60-Calibrer Assault Mount by zx2c4 Yesterday we learned how Calibre...

Calibre E-Book Reader - Race Condition Privilege Escalation

!/bin/sh .70-Calibrer Assault Mount by Dan Rosenberg @djrbliss and zx2c4 Yesterday we learned how Calibre's ability to mount anything anywhere resulted in a local root. Today's exploit shows a race condition to subvert recent changes preventing symlinks and checking path prefixes. - djrbliss &...

Calibre E-Book Reader - Local Privilege Escalation (2)

Calibre E-Book Reader - Local Privilege Escalation 2 Exploit Title: .60-Calibrer Assault Mount: Another Calibre E-Book Reader Local Root Date: Nov 2, 2011 Author: zx2c4 Software Link: http://calibre-ebook.com/ Tested on: Gentoo Platform: Linux Category: Local CVE: pending !/bin/sh .60-Calibrer...

Calibre E-Book Reader Local Root Race Condition

!/bin/sh .70-Calibrer Assault Mount by Dan Rosenberg @djrbliss and zx2c4 Yesterday we learned how Calibre's ability to mount anything anywhere resulted in a local root. Today's exploit shows a race condition to subvert recent changes preventing symlinks and checking path prefixes. - djrbliss &...

Calibre E-Book Reader - Race Condition Privilege Escalation

Calibre E-Book Reader - Race Condition Privilege Escalation !/bin/sh .70-Calibrer Assault Mount by Dan Rosenberg @djrbliss and zx2c4 Yesterday we learned how Calibre's ability to mount anything anywhere resulted in a local root. Today's exploit shows a race condition to subvert recent changes...

Calibre E-Book Reader Local Root

!/bin/sh .50-Calibrer Assault Mount by zx2c4 Calibre uses a suid mount helper, and like nearly all suid mount helpers that have come before it, it's badly broken. Let's go through Calibre's faulty code available at http://pastebin.com/auz9SULi and look at the array of silly things done, only one ...

Calibre E-Book Reader - Local Privilege Escalation (1)

Calibre E-Book Reader - Local Privilege Escalation 1 !/bin/sh .50-Calibrer Assault Mount by zx2c4 Calibre uses a suid mount helper, and like nearly all suid mount helpers that have come before it, it's badly broken. Let's go through Calibre's faulty code available at http://pastebin.com/auz9SULi...

Calibre E-Book Reader - Local Privilege Escalation (1)

!/bin/sh .50-Calibrer Assault Mount by zx2c4 Calibre uses a suid mount helper, and like nearly all suid mount helpers that have come before it, it's badly broken. Let's go through Calibre's faulty code available at http://pastebin.com/auz9SULi and look at the array of silly things done, only one ...

Calibre E-Book Reader Local Root Exploit

Exploit for linux platform in category local exploits Exploit Title: .60-Calibrer Assault Mount: Another Calibre E-Book Reader Local Root Date: Nov 2, 2011 Author: zx2c4 Software Link: http://calibre-ebook.com/ Tested on: Gentoo Platform: Linux Category: Local CVE: pending !/bin/sh .60-Calibrer...

Calibre E-Book Reader Local Root Exploit

Exploit for linux platform in category local exploits !/bin/sh .50-Calibrer Assault Mount by zx2c4 Calibre uses a suid mount helper, and like nearly all suid mount helpers that have come before it, it's badly broken. Let's go through Calibre's faulty code available at http://pastebin.com/auz9SULi...

CVE-2011-3638

fs/ext4/extents.c in the Linux kernel before 3.0 does not mark a modified extent as dirty in certain cases of extent splitting, which allows local users to cause a denial of service system crash via vectors involving ext4 umount and mount operations...

UBUNTU-CVE-2011-3638

fs/ext4/extents.c in the Linux kernel before 3.0 does not mark a modified extent as dirty in certain cases of extent splitting, which allows local users to cause a denial of service system crash via vectors involving ext4 umount and mount operations...

Ubuntu 10.04 LTS : linux-ec2 vulnerabilities (USN-1239-1)

Ryan Sweat discovered that the kernel incorrectly handled certain VLAN packets. On some systems, a remote attacker could send specially crafted traffic to crash the system, leading to a denial of service. CVE-2011-1576 Vasiliy Kulikov and Dan Rosenberg discovered that ecryptfs did not correctly...

USN-1239-1: Linux kernel (EC2) vulnerabilities

Ryan Sweat discovered that the kernel incorrectly handled certain VLAN packets. On some systems, a remote attacker could send specially crafted traffic to crash the system, leading to a denial of service. CVE-2011-1576 Vasiliy Kulikov and Dan Rosenberg discovered that ecryptfs did not correctly...

CentOS Update for kernel CESA-2011:1386 centos5 i386

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2011 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",...

kernel: ecryptfs: mount source TOCTOU race

Race condition in the ecryptfsmount function in fs/ecryptfs/main.c in the eCryptfs subsystem in the Linux kernel before 3.1 allows local users to bypass intended file permissions via a mount.ecryptfsprivate mount with a mismatched uid...

Ubuntu Update for linux USN-1227-1

Ubuntu Update for Linux kernel vulnerabilities USN-1227-1 OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: gbubuntuUSN12271.nasl 7964 2017-12-01 07:32:11Z santu $ Ubuntu Update for linux USN-1227-1 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2011 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This...