CentOS 5 : kernel (CESA-2008:0885)

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...

CentOS 5 : kernel (CESA-2008:0089)

Updated kernel packages that fix several security issues and several bugs in the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 kernel are now available. 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...

FreeBSD 7.2 VFS/devfs race condition exploit

No description provided by source. FreeBSD 7.2 and below including 6.4 are vulnerable to race condition in VFS and devfs code, resulting in NULL pointer dereference. In contrast to pipe race condition, this vulnerability is actually much harder to exploit. Due to uninitalised value in devfsopen,...

SLES9: Security update for gnome-vfs

The remote host is missing updates to packages that affect the security of your system. One or more of the following packages are affected: gnome-vfs For more information, please visit the referenced security advisories. More details may also be found by searching for keyword 5014621 within the...

SLES9: Security update for gnome-vfs

The remote host is missing updates to packages that affect the security of your system. One or more of the following packages are affected: gnome-vfs For more information, please visit the referenced security advisories. More details may also be found by searching for keyword 5014621 within the...

FreeBSD 7.2 VFS/devfs race condition exploit

FreeBSD 7.2 and below including 6.4 are vulnerable to race condition in VFS and devfs code, resulting in NULL pointer dereference. In contrast to pipe race condition, this vulnerability is actually much harder to exploit. Due to uninitalised value in devfsopen, following function is called with...

FreeBSd race conditions (devfs)

Race conditions between devfs and VFS allow code execution...

FreeBSD 7.2 VFS/devfs race condition exploit

Exploit for unknown platform in category local exploits ============================================ FreeBSD 7.2 VFS/devfs race condition exploit ============================================ Title: FreeBSD 7.2 VFS/devfs race condition exploit CVE-ID: OSVDB-ID: Author: Przemyslaw Frasunek Publishe...

FreeBSD 7.2 - VFS/devfs Race Condition

if 0 FreeBSD 7.2 and below including 6.4 are vulnerable to race condition in VFS and devfs code, resulting in NULL pointer dereference. In contrast to pipe race condition, this vulnerability is actually much harder to exploit. Due to uninitalised value in devfsopen, following function is called...

FreeBSD Security Advisory (FreeBSD-SA-09:14.devfs.asc)

The remote host is missing an update to the system as announced in the referenced advisory FreeBSD-SA-09:14.devfs.asc SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2009 E-Soft Inc. Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders...

FreeBSD Security Advisory FreeBSD-SA-09:14.devfs

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 ============================================================================= FreeBSD-SA-09:14.devfs Security Advisory The FreeBSD Project Topic: Devfs / VFS NULL pointer race condition Category: core Module: kern Announced: 2009-10-02 Credits:...

FreeBSD-SA-09:14.devfs

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 ============================================================================= FreeBSD-SA-09:14.devfs Security Advisory The FreeBSD Project Topic: Devfs / VFS NULL pointer race condition Category: core Module: kern Announced: 2009-10-02 Credits:...

FreeBSD -- Devfs / VFS NULL pointer race condition

Problem Description: Due to the interaction between devfs and VFS, a race condition exists where the kernel might dereference a NULL pointer. Impact: Successful exploitation of the race condition can lead to local kernel privilege escalation, kernel data corruption and/or crash. To exploit this...

SuSE 11 Security Update : Xine (SAT Patch Number 643)

Specially crafted 4x movie files could cause an integer overflow in xine-lib. CVE-2009-0698 %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from SuSE 11 update information. The text itself is copyright C Novell, Inc...

SuSE9 Security Update : gnome-vfs (YOU Patch Number 10009)

This update fixes the following security problems : - The VFS scripts contained in GNOME are vulnerable to attacks on temporary files as well as command execution via shell meta-characters. These bugs can be exploited by accessing a malformated archive file. CVE-2004-0494 - Insufficient checks wh...

FreeBSD 7.0/7.1 - 'vfs.usermount' Local Privilege Escalation

/ cve-2008-3531.c -- Patroklos Argyroudis, argp at domain census-labs.com Privilege escalation exploit for the FreeBSD-SA-08:08.nmount CVE-2008-3531 vulnerability: http://security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-08:08.nmount.asc http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2008-3531 For ...

FreeBSD : gnomevfs -- unsafe URI handling (7884d56f-f7a1-11d8-9837-000c41e2cdad)

Alexander Larsson reports that some versions of gnome-vfs and MidnightCommander contain a number of extfs' scripts that do not properly validate user input. If an attacker can cause her victim to process a specially crafted URI, arbitrary commands can be executed with the privileges of the victim...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : kernel (MDVSA-2008:112)

Some vulnerabilities were discovered and corrected in the Linux 2.6 kernel : The Datagram Congestion Control Protocol DCCP subsystem in the Linux kernel 2.6.18, and probably other versions, does not properly check feature lengths, which might allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code,...

Mandriva Update for kernel MDVSA-2008:112 (kernel)

Check for the Version of kernel OpenVAS Vulnerability Test Mandriva Update for kernel MDVSA-2008:112 kernel Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2009 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under t...

CVE-2009-1238: Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization

Race condition in the HFS vfs sysctl interface in XNU 1228.8.20 and earlier on Apple Mac OS X 10.5.6 and earlier allows local users to cause a denial of service kernel memory corruption by simultaneously executing the same HFSSETPKGEXTENSIONS code path in multiple threads, which is problematic...