DEBIAN-CVE-2013-1958

The scmcheckcreds function in net/core/scm.c in the Linux kernel before 3.8.6 does not properly enforce capability requirements for controlling the PID value associated with a UNIX domain socket, which allows local users to bypass intended access restrictions by leveraging the time interval durin...

Nmap 6.25 released with 85 new NSE scripts

After five months NMAP team release latest version of open source utility for network exploration or security auditing - NMAP 6.25 . It was designed to rapidly scan large networks, but works fine against single hosts. Nmap runs on all major computer operating systems, and official binary packages...

Fedora 17 : postgresql-9.1.5-1.fc17 (2012-12165)

Update to PostgreSQL 9.1.5, for various fixes described at http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.1/static/release-9-1-5.html including the fixes for CVE-2012-3488, CVE-2012-3489 Configure postmaster to create Unix-domain sockets in both /var/run/postgresql and /tmp; the former is now the default place...

FreeBSD UIPC socket stack overflow-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

!/ bin/sh fbsd-uipcsock-heap.sh, by Shaun Colley a, 29/09/11 proof-of-concept crash for the freebsd unix domain sockets heap overflow. this was tested on freebsd 8.2-RELEASE. just a PoC for now. see advisory & patches for details: http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/519864/30/0/threaded this P...

FreeBSD Security Advisory (FreeBSD-SA-11:05.unix.asc)

The remote host is missing an update to the system as announced in the referenced advisory FreeBSD-SA-11:05.unix.asc SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2011 E-Soft Inc. Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders...

FreeBSD UIPC Socket Heap Overflow

!/bin/sh fbsd-uipcsock-heap.sh, by Shaun Colley , 29/09/11 proof-of-concept crash for the freebsd unix domain sockets heap overflow. this was tested on freebsd 8.2-RELEASE. just a PoC for now. see advisory & patches for details: http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/519864/30/0/threaded this PoC...

FreeBSD - UIPC socket heap Overflow (PoC)

!/bin/sh fbsd-uipcsock-heap.sh, by Shaun Colley , 29/09/11 proof-of-concept crash for the freebsd unix domain sockets heap overflow. this was tested on freebsd 8.2-RELEASE. just a PoC for now. see advisory & patches for details: http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/519864/30/0/threaded this PoC...

CentOS 5 : kernel (CESA-2008:0612)

Updated kernel packages that fix various security issues and several bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. This update has been rated as having important security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team. The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux...

kernel: AF_UNIX: Fix deadlock on connecting to shutdown socket

net/unix/afunix.c in the Linux kernel 2.6.31.4 and earlier allows local users to cause a denial of service system hang by creating an abstract-namespace AFUNIX listening socket, performing a shutdown operation on this socket, and then performing a series of connect operations to this socket...

kernel: AF_UNIX: Fix deadlock on connecting to shutdown socket

net/unix/afunix.c in the Linux kernel 2.6.31.4 and earlier allows local users to cause a denial of service system hang by creating an abstract-namespace AFUNIX listening socket, performing a shutdown operation on this socket, and then performing a series of connect operations to this socket...

kernel: fix soft lockups/OOM issues with unix socket garbage collector

Linux kernel 2.6.28 allows local users to cause a denial of service "soft lockup" and process loss via a large number of sendmsg function calls, which does not block during AFUNIX garbage collection and triggers an OOM condition, a different vulnerability than CVE-2008-5029...

kernel: Unix sockets kernel panic

The scmdestroy function in net/core/scm.c in the Linux kernel 2.6.27.4, 2.6.26, and earlier makes indirect recursive calls to itself through calls to the fput function, which allows local users to cause a denial of service panic via vectors related to sending an SCMRIGHTS message through a UNIX...

kernel: Unix sockets kernel panic

The scmdestroy function in net/core/scm.c in the Linux kernel 2.6.27.4, 2.6.26, and earlier makes indirect recursive calls to itself through calls to the fput function, which allows local users to cause a denial of service panic via vectors related to sending an SCMRIGHTS message through a UNIX...

kernel: fix soft lockups/OOM issues with unix socket garbage collector

Linux kernel 2.6.28 allows local users to cause a denial of service "soft lockup" and process loss via a large number of sendmsg function calls, which does not block during AFUNIX garbage collection and triggers an OOM condition, a different vulnerability than CVE-2008-5029...

kernel: fix soft lockups/OOM issues with unix socket garbage collector

Linux kernel 2.6.28 allows local users to cause a denial of service "soft lockup" and process loss via a large number of sendmsg function calls, which does not block during AFUNIX garbage collection and triggers an OOM condition, a different vulnerability than CVE-2008-5029...

kernel: Unix sockets kernel panic

The scmdestroy function in net/core/scm.c in the Linux kernel 2.6.27.4, 2.6.26, and earlier makes indirect recursive calls to itself through calls to the fput function, which allows local users to cause a denial of service panic via vectors related to sending an SCMRIGHTS message through a UNIX...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: kernel security and bug fix update

Updated kernel packages that fix various security issues and several bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. This update has been rated as having important security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team. The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: kernel security and bug fix update

Updated kernel packages that fix various security issues and several bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4. This update has been rated as having important security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team. The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux...

Important: cups security and bug fix update

1.2.4-11.14.el51.1 - Applied patch to fix CVE-2007-4351 STR 2561, bug 353981. 1.2.4-11.14 - Applied patch to fix cupsd crash when failing to open a file: URI STR 2351, bug 250415. 1.2.4-11.13 - Moved LSPP security attributes check before job creation bug 231522. 1.2.4-11.12 - Moved LSPP access...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : hylafax (MDKSA-2005:177)

faxcron, recvstats, and xferfaxstats in HylaFax 4.2.1 and earlier allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on temporary files. CVE-2005-3069 In addition, HylaFax has some provisional support for Unix domain sockets, which is disabled in the default compile configuratio...