Local-Privilege Escalation Flaw in Linux Kernel Allows Root Access

A local-privilege escalation vulnerability in the Linux kernel affects all current versions of Red Hat Enterprise Linux and CentOS, even in their default/minimal installations. It would allow an attacker to obtain full administrator privileges over the targeted system, and from there potentially...

CVE-2017-18344

The timercreate syscall implementation in kernel/time/posix-timers.c in the Linux kernel doesn't properly validate the sigevent-sigevnotify field, which leads to out-of-bounds access in the showtimer function. Mitigation Attached to this bugzilla is a systemtap script that will prevent opening an...

java-1.7.0-openjdk security and bug fix update

1:1.7.0.161-2.6.12.0.0.1 - Update DISTRONAME in specfile 1:1.7.0.161-2.6.12.0 - Remove superfluous %1 from policy JAR file path. - Resolves: rhbz1499207 1:1.7.0.161-2.6.12.0 - Update location of policy JAR files following 8157561. - Resolves: rhbz1499207 1:1.7.0.161-2.6.12.0 - Bump to 2.6.12 and...

Oracle Linux 6 / 7 : java-1.8.0-openjdk (ELSA-2017-2998)

The remote Oracle Linux 6 / 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2017-2998 advisory. 1:1.8.0.151-1.b12 - repack policies adapted to new counts and paths - note that also c-j-c is needed to make this apply in next update - Resolves:...

UPDATE: Cuckoo Sandbox 2.0.4

PenTestIT RSS Feed My previous post was about this open source, malware analysis automation framework - Cuckoo Sandbox 2.0.0. This post however, is about an update made to the framework. We now have Cuckoo Sandbox 2.0.4 which include a number of important improvements simplifying and improving yo...

java-1.8.0-openjdk security update

1:1.8.0.111-0.b15 - added nss restricting requires - Resolves: rhbz1381990 1:1.8.0.111-0.b15 - Turn debug builds on for all JIT architectures. Always AssumeMP on RHEL. - Resolves: rhbz1381990 1:1.8.0.111-0.b15 - Update to aarch64-jdk8u111-b15, with AArch64 fix for S8160591. - Resolves: rhbz138199...

java-1.6.0-openjdk security update

1:1.6.0.40-1.13.12.4.0.1 - Add oracle-enterprise.patch 1:1.6.0.40-1.13.12.4 - Bump source tarballs to try and really fix TCK failures this time. - Resolves: rhbz1350043 1:1.6.0.40-1.13.12.3 - Bump source tarballs to missing -DNDEBUG on JDK native code. - Resolves: rhbz1350043 1:1.6.0.40-1.13.12.2...

java-1.7.0-openjdk security update

1:1.7.0.111-2.6.7.1.0.1 - Add oracle-enterprise.patch - Fix DISTRONAME to 'Oracle Linux' 1:1.7.0.111-2.6.7.1 - Bump to jdk7u111 b01 to fix TCK regressions 7081817 & 8162344 - Resolves: rhbz1350038 1:1.7.0.111-2.6.7.0 - Bump to 2.6.7 and u111b00. - Update SystemTap bundle with fix for...

glibc security, bug fix, and enhancement update

2.17-105.0.1 - Remove strstr and strcasestr implementations using sse4.2 instructions. - Upstream commits 584b18eb4df61ccd447db2dfe8c8a7901f8c8598 and 1818483b15d22016b0eae41d37ee91cc87b37510 backported. 2.17-105 - Fix up test case for initial-exec fix 1248208. 2.17-104 - Mark all TLS variables i...

Oracle: Security Advisory (ELSA-2009-0373)

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: Security Advisory (ELSA-2012-0376)

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: Security Advisory (ELSA-2011-1089)

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: Security Advisory (ELSA-2011-1088)

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: Security Advisory (ELSA-2010-0894)

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: Security Advisory (ELSA-2011-0841)

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: Security Advisory (ELSA-2010-0124)

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: Security Advisory (ELSA-2011-0842)

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...

Gentoo Security Advisory GLSA 201406-04

Gentoo Linux Local Security Checks GLSA 201406-04 SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2015 Eero Volotinen 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-or-later ifdescription...

Amazon Linux: Security Advisory (ALAS-2012-54)

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...

The vulnerability of the CentOS operating system, which allows a malicious individual to compromise the accessibility of protected information

The vulnerability of the systemtap-1.3 package of the CentOS operating system; its exploitation may lead to a violation of the accessibility of protected information. The vulnerability can be exploited locally...