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...

SuSE 11.2 Security Update : Linux kernel (SAT Patch Numbers 7370 / 7373 / 7374)

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 SP2 kernel has been updated to fix two issues : One severe security issue : - A race condition in ptrace2 could be used by local attackers to crash the kernel and/or execute code in kernel context. One severe regression issue:. CVE-2013-0871 - A regression in UNIX...

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...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : esound (MDKSA-2000:051)

A problem exists with the esound daemon, which is used in GNOME and responsible for multiplexing access to audio devices. Versions of esound prior to and including 0.2.19 create a world-writable directory in /tmp called .esd which is owned by the user running esound. This directory is used to sto...

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...

Scientific Linux Security Update : kernel on SL4.x i386/x86_64

This update fixes the following security issues : - a flaw was found in the Realtek r8169 Ethernet driver in the Linux kernel. pciunmapsingle presented a memory leak that could lead to IOMMU space exhaustion and a system crash. An attacker on the local network could trigger this flaw by using jum...

Scientific Linux Security Update : gdm on SL5.x i386/x86_64

A flaw was found in the way Gdm listens on its unix domain socket. A local user could crash a running X session by writing malicious data to Gdm's unix domain socket. CVE-2007-3381 %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text is C Scientific Linux...

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...

DSA-2325-1 kfreebsd-8 - privilege escalation/denial of service

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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 Update for kernel CESA-2009:1671 centos4 i386

Check for the Version of kernel OpenVAS Vulnerability Test CentOS Update for kernel CESA-2009:1671 centos4 i386 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2011 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it und...

CentOS Update for kernel CESA-2009:1671 centos4 i386

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2011 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 Update for kernel CESA-2009:1670 centos5 i386

Check for the Version of kernel OpenVAS Vulnerability Test CentOS Update for kernel CESA-2009:1670 centos5 i386 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2011 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it und...

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...

RedHat Security Advisory RHSA-2009:1670

The remote host is missing updates announced in advisory RHSA-2009:1670. The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system. Security fixes: NULL pointer dereference flaws in the r128 driver. Checks to test if the Concurrent Command Engine state was initialized...

RedHat Security Advisory RHSA-2009:1671

The remote host is missing updates announced in advisory RHSA-2009:1671. The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system. This update fixes the following security issues: a flaw was found in the Realtek r8169 Ethernet driver in the Linux kernel. pciunmapsingle...

RedHat Security Advisory RHSA-2009:1671

The remote host is missing updates announced in advisory RHSA-2009:1671. The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system. This update fixes the following security issues: a flaw was found in the Realtek r8169 Ethernet driver in the Linux kernel. pciunmapsingle...

kernel security update

CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-2009:1671 Updated kernel packages that fix multiple 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...