kernel: speculative pointer dereference in do_prlimit() in kernel/sys.c

A vulnerabilty was found in Linux Kernel, where a speculative pointer dereference problem exists in the Linux Kernel on the doprlimit function. The resource argument value is controlled and is used in pointer arithmetic for the 'rlim' variable and can be used to leak the contents...

Moderate: Red Hat Security Advisory: Red Hat OpenShift Data Foundation 4.12.3 Security and Bug fix update

Updated images that fix several bugs are now available for Red Hat OpenShift Data Foundation 4.12.3 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 from Red Hat Container Registry. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS bas...

SUSE CVE-2004-1269

lppasswd in CUPS 1.1.22 does not remove the passwd.new file if it encounters a file-size resource limit while writing to passwd.new, which causes subsequent invocations of lppasswd to fail...

SUSE CVE-2011-1749

The nfsaddmntent function in support/nfs/nfsmntent.c in the mount.nsf tool in nfs-utils before 1.2.4 attempts to append to the /etc/mtab file without first checking whether resource limits would interfere, which allows local users to corrupt this file via a process with a small RLIMITFSIZE value,...

Resource Limit Increases for EdgeWorkers Yield Big Results

Read about how EdgeWorkers reduced errors resulting from resource limit constraints — unlocking even more opportunities for businesses...

OpenStack Compute (Nova) Resource limit circumvention in Nova private flavors

The "create an instance" API in OpenStack Compute Nova Folsom, Grizzly, and Havana does not properly enforce the os-flavor-access:ispublic property, which allows remote authenticated users to boot arbitrary flavors by guessing the flavor id. NOTE: this issue is due to an incomplete fix for...

ZSQL: Resource Limit of a Single User

Configure the resource limit to enable the maximum number of connections of a single user as defined in ADMPROFILES table. SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2020 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders...

CVE-2019-19726

OpenBSD through 6.6 allows local users to escalate to root because a check for LDLIBRARYPATH in setuid programs can be defeated by setting a very small RLIMITDATA resource limit. When executing chpass or passwd which are setuid root, dlsetupenv in ld.so tries to strip LDLIBRARYPATH from the...

Code injection

OpenBSD through 6.6 allows local users to escalate to root because a check for LDLIBRARYPATH in setuid programs can be defeated by setting a very small RLIMITDATA resource limit. When executing chpass or passwd which are setuid root, dlsetupenv in ld.so tries to strip LDLIBRARYPATH from the...

Denial Of Service (DoS)

The openstack-nova packages provide OpenStack Compute Nova, which provides services for provisioning, managing, and using virtual machine instances. It was found that the fixes for CVE-2013-1664 and CVE-2013-1665, released via RHSA-2013:0657, did not fully correct the issues in the Extensible...

qemu: vnc: insufficient resource limiting in VNC websockets decoder

It was found that the QEMU's websocket frame decoder processed incoming frames without limiting resources used to process the header and the payload. An attacker able to access a guest's VNC console could use this flaw to trigger a denial of service on the host by exhausting all available memory...

Easy Software Products LPPassWd 1.1.22 Resource Limit Denial of Service Vulnerability

No description provided by source. source: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/12005/info Easy Software Products lppasswd is prone to a locally exploitable denial of service vulnerability. This issue occurs when the program attempts to write a file to the system that will exceed any file size resour...

Moderate: Red Hat Security Advisory: openstack-nova security and bug fix update

Updated openstack-nova packages that fix multiple security issues and various bugs are now available for Red Hat OpenStack 3.0. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having moderate security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base scores, which give detailed...

Debian: Security Advisory (DSA-2436-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the Debian 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...

Debian Security Advisory DSA 2436-1 (libapache2-mod-fcgid)

The remote host is missing an update to libapache2-mod-fcgid announced via advisory DSA 2436-1. OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: deb24361.nasl 6612 2017-07-07 12:08:03Z cfischer $ Description: Auto-generated from advisory DSA 2436-1 libapache2-mod-fcgid Authors: Thomas Reinke Copyright: Copyright ...

[SECURITY] [DSA 2436-1] libapache2-mod-fcgid security update

------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory DSA-2436-1 [email protected] http://www.debian.org/security/ Thijs Kinkhorst March 19, 2012 http://www.debian.org/security/faq -...

OpenSSH < 2.9.9p1 Resource Limit Bypass

According to its banner, the remote host is running a version of OpenSSH earlier than 2.9.9/2.9.9p1. Such versions fail to initiate a Pluggable Authentication Module PAM session if commands are executed with no pty. A remote, unauthenticated attacker, exploiting this flaw, could bypass resource...

DEBIAN-CVE-2011-1678

smbfs in Samba 3.5.8 and earlier attempts to use 1 mount.cifs to append to the /etc/mtab file and 2 umount.cifs 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 wi...

DEBIAN-CVE-2011-1681

vmware-hgfsmounter in VMware Open Virtual Machine Tools aka open-vm-tools 8.4.2-261024 and earlier attempts to append to the /etc/mtab file without first checking whether resource limits would interfere, which allows local users to trigger corruption of this file via a process with a small...

CVE-2011-1675

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...