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GLSA-201512-03 : GRUB: Authentication bypass
The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-201512-03 GRUB: Authentication bypass An integer underflow in GRUBs username/password authentication code has been discovered. Impact : An attacker with access to the system console may bypass the username prompt by entering a...
MGASA-2015-0480 Updated grub2 packages fix security vulnerability
A flaw was found in the way the grub2 handled backspace characters entered in username and password prompts. An attacker with access to the system console could use this flaw to bypass grub2 password protection and gain administrative access to the system CVE-2015-8370...
Moderate: Red Hat Bug Fix Advisory: Red Hat Enterprise MRG Realtime 2.1 kernel bug fix update
Updated kernel-rt packages that fix several bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise MRG 2.1. The kernel-rt packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system. This update provides a build of the kernel-rt package for MRG 2.1, which is layered on Red Hat Enterprise Lin...
MS10-015 Restart Issues Are the Result of Rootkit Infection
Microsoft on Thursday confirmed that the blue screen of death issues that affected a slew of users after the latest batch of Patch Tuesday updates is the result of an existing infection by the Alureon rootkit. There was widespread speculation after the patch release that simply installing the...
Code injection
Sun ScApp firmware 5.18.x, 5.19.x, and 5.20.0 through 5.20.10 on Sun Fire and Netra platforms allows remote attackers to access the System Controller SC, the system console, and possibly the host OS, and cause a denial of service shutdown or reboot, via spoofed IP packets...
Debian DSA-956-1 : lsh-server - filedescriptor leak
Stefan Pfetzing discovered that lshd, a Secure Shell v2 SSH2 protocol server, leaks a couple of file descriptors, related to the randomness generator, to user shells which are started by lshd. A local attacker can truncate the server's seed file, which may prevent the server from starting, and wi...
