glibc security and bug fix update

2.12-1.166.7 - Update fix for CVE-2015-7547 1296028. 2.12-1.166.6 - Create helper threads with enough stack for POSIX AIO and timers 1301625. 2.12-1.166.5 - Fix CVE-2015-7547: getaddrinfo stack-based buffer overflow 1296028. 2.12-1.166.4 - Support loading more libraries with static TLS 1291270...

glibc security update

2.12-1.166.7 - Update fix for CVE-2015-7547 1296028. 2.12-1.166.6 - Create helper threads with enough stack for POSIX AIO and timers 1301625. 2.12-1.166.5 - Fix CVE-2015-7547: getaddrinfo stack-based buffer overflow 1296028. 2.12-1.166.4 - Support loading more libraries with static TLS 1291270...

openSUSE: Security Advisory for kernel (openSUSE-SU-2016:0318-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2016 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...

NTP - Local Privilege Escalation

Source: http://www.halfdog.net/Security/2015/NtpCronjobUserNtpToRootPrivilegeEscalation/ Introduction Problem description: The cronjob script bundled with ntp package is intended to perform cleanup on statistics files produced by NTP daemon running with statistics enabled. The script is run as ro...

Debian Security Advisory DSA 3450-1 (ecryptfs-utils - security update)

Jann Horn discovered that the setuid-root mount.ecryptfsprivate helper in the ecryptfs-utils would mount over any target directory that the user owns, including a directory in procfs. A local attacker could use this flaw to escalate his privileges. OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: deb3450.nasl 660...

[SECURITY] Fedora 22 Update: pcre-8.38-1.fc22

Perl-compatible regular expression library. PCRE has its own native API, but a set of "wrapper" functions that are base d on the POSIX API are also supplied in the library libpcreposix. Note that this just provides a POSIX calling interface to PCRE: the regular expressions themselves still follow...

[SECURITY] Fedora 22 Update: pcre-8.37-7.fc22

Perl-compatible regular expression library. PCRE has its own native API, but a set of "wrapper" functions that are base d on the POSIX API are also supplied in the library libpcreposix. Note that this just provides a POSIX calling interface to PCRE: the regular expressions themselves still follow...

[SECURITY] Fedora 23 Update: pcre-8.38-1.fc23

Perl-compatible regular expression library. PCRE has its own native API, but a set of "wrapper" functions that are base d on the POSIX API are also supplied in the library libpcreposix. Note that this just provides a POSIX calling interface to PCRE: the regular expressions themselves still follow...

RedHat Update for glibc RHSA-2015:2172-01

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2015 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...

Important: Red Hat Bug Fix Advisory: libcap-ng bug fix and enhancement update

Updated libcap-ng packages that fix several bugs and add various enhancements are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. The libcap-ng library is designed to make programming with POSIX capabilities easier. It is shipped with utilities to analyze the POSIX capabilities of all running...

RedHat Update for sssd RHSA-2015:2019-01

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2015 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...

Oracle Linux 6 : sssd (ELSA-2015-2019)

The remote Oracle Linux 6 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ELSA-2015-2019 advisory. 1.12.4-47.4 - Resolves: rhbz1268783 - Memory leak / possible DoS with krb auth. 1.12.4-47.3 - Resolves: rhbz1268784 - SSSD POSIX attribute check is too strict...

Scientific Linux Security Update : sssd on SL6.x i386/x86_64 (20151110)

It was found that SSSD's Privilege Attribute Certificate PAC responder plug-in would leak a small amount of memory on each authentication request. A remote attacker could potentially use this flaw to exhaust all available memory on the system by making repeated requests to a Kerberized daemon...

CentOS 6 : sssd (CESA-2015:2019)

Updated sssd packages that fix one security issue and several bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having Low security impact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is...

sssd security and bug fix update

1.12.4-47.4 - Resolves: rhbz1268783 - Memory leak / possible DoS with krb auth. 1.12.4-47.3 - Resolves: rhbz1268784 - SSSD POSIX attribute check is too strict 1.12.4-47.2 - Resolves: rhbz1264098 - cleanupgroups should sanitize dn of groups 1.12.4-47.1 - Resolves: rhbz1258398 - sysdb sudo search...

CVE-2006-7051

The systimercreate function in posix-timers.c for Linux kernel 2.6.x allows local users to cause a denial of service memory consumption and possibly bypass memory limits or cause other processes to be killed by creating a large number of posix timers, which are allocated in kernel memory but are...

CVE-2005-4784

Multiple buffer overflows in the POSIX readdirr function, as used in multiple packages, allow local users to cause a denial of service and possibly execute arbitrary code via 1 a symlink attack that exploits a race condition between opendir and pathcon calls and changes the filesystem to one with...

CVE-2007-4849

JFFS2, as used on One Laptop Per Child OLPC build 542 and possibly other Linux systems, when POSIX ACL support is enabled, does not properly store permissions during 1 inode creation or 2 ACL setting, which might allow local users to access restricted files or directories after a remount of a...

[SECURITY] Fedora 22 Update: pcre-8.37-4.fc22

Perl-compatible regular expression library. PCRE has its own native API, but a set of "wrapper" functions that are base d on the POSIX API are also supplied in the library libpcreposix. Note that this just provides a POSIX calling interface to PCRE: the regular expressions themselves still follow...

Amazon Linux: Security Advisory (ALAS-2015-476)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2015 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...