CVE-2012-3419: Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

Performance Co-Pilot PCP before 3.6.5 exports some of the /proc file system, which allows attackers to obtain sensitive information such as proc/pid/maps and command line arguments...

Scientific Linux Security Update : Scientific Linux 6 kernel on SL6.x i386/x86_64

The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system. This update fixes the following security issues : - The proc file system could allow a local, unprivileged user to obtain sensitive information or possibly cause integrity issues. CVE-2011-1020, Moderate -...

Scientific Linux Security Update : kernel on SL5.x i386/x86_64 (20120110)

The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system. This update fixes the following security issues : - A buffer overflow flaw was found in the way the Linux kernel's XFS file system implementation handled links with overly long path names. A local, unprivileged...

CentOS Update for kernel CESA-2012:0007 centos5

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2012 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",...

CentOS 5 : kernel (CESA-2012:0007)

Updated kernel packages that fix multiple security issues, several bugs, and add one enhancement are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having important security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base scores,...

kernel security update

CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-2012:0007 Updated kernel packages that fix multiple security issues, several bugs, and add one enhancement are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having important security impact. Commo...

USN-319-1: Linux kernel vulnerability

A race condition has been discovered in the file permission handling of the /proc file system. A local attacker could exploit this to execute arbitrary code with full root privileges...

Ubuntu 4.10 / 5.04 / 5.10 : linux-source-2.6.8.1/-2.6.10/-2.6.12 vulnerabilities (USN-244-1)

Doug Chapman discovered a flaw in the reference counting in the sysmqopen function. By calling this function in a special way, a local attacker could exploit this to cause a kernel crash. CVE-2005-3356 Karl Janmar discovered that the /proc file system module used signed data types in a wrong way....