Moderate: Red Hat Security Advisory: kernel-rt security, bug fix, and enhancement update

Updated kernel-rt packages that fix three security issues, several bugs, and add various enhancements are now available for Red Hat Enterprise MRG 2.5. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having Moderate security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base scores, which gi...

Oracle Linux 5 : libXfont (ELSA-2014-1893)

The remote Oracle Linux 5 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2014-1893 advisory. - CVE-2014-0209: integer overflow of allocations in font metadata file parsing bug 1163602, bug 1163601 - CVE-2014-0210: unvalidated length fields when...

libXfont: unvalidated length fields when parsing xfs protocol replies

Multiple out-of-bounds write flaws were found in the way libXfont parsed replies received from an X.org font server. A malicious X.org server could cause an X client to crash or, possibly, execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the X.Org server...

libXfont security update

1.2.2-1.0.6 - CVE-2014-0209: integer overflow of allocations in font metadata file parsing bug 1163602, bug 1163601 - CVE-2014-0210: unvalidated length fields when parsing xfs protocol replies bug 1163602, bug 1163601 - CVE-2014-0211: integer overflows calculating memory needs for xfs replies bug...

libXfont: unvalidated length fields when parsing xfs protocol replies

Multiple out-of-bounds write flaws were found in the way libXfont parsed replies received from an X.org font server. A malicious X.org server could cause an X client to crash or, possibly, execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the X.Org server...

CVE-2014-7283

The xfsda3fixhashpath function in fs/xfs/xfsdabtree.c in the xfs implementation in the Linux kernel before 3.14.2 does not properly compare btree hash values, which allows local users to cause a denial of service filesystem corruption, and OOPS or panic via operations on directories that have has...

DEBIAN-CVE-2014-7283

The xfsda3fixhashpath function in fs/xfs/xfsdabtree.c in the xfs implementation in the Linux kernel before 3.14.2 does not properly compare btree hash values, which allows local users to cause a denial of service filesystem corruption, and OOPS or panic via operations on directories that have has...

CVE-2014-7283

The xfsda3fixhashpath function in fs/xfs/xfsdabtree.c in the xfs implementation in the Linux kernel before 3.14.2 does not properly compare btree hash values, which allows local users to cause a denial of service filesystem corruption, and OOPS or panic via operations on directories that have has...

CVE-2014-7283

The xfsda3fixhashpath function in fs/xfs/xfsdabtree.c in the xfs implementation in the Linux kernel before 3.14.2 does not properly compare btree hash values, which allows local users to cause a denial of service filesystem corruption, and OOPS or panic via operations on directories that have has...

CVE-2014-7283

The xfsda3fixhashpath function in fs/xfs/xfsdabtree.c in the xfs implementation in the Linux kernel before 3.14.2 does not properly compare btree hash values, which allows local users to cause a denial of service filesystem corruption, and OOPS or panic via operations on directories that have has...

CVE-2014-7283

The xfsda3fixhashpath function in fs/xfs/xfsdabtree.c in the xfs implementation in the Linux kernel before 3.14.2 does not properly compare btree hash values, which allows local users to cause a denial of service filesystem corruption, and OOPS or panic via operations on directories that have has...

RHEL 6 : MRG (RHSA-2013:0829)

Updated kernel-rt packages that fix several security issues and multiple bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise MRG 2.3. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having important security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base scores, which give detailed...

XFree86 X11R6 3.3.x Font Server Remote Buffer Overrun Vulnerability

No description provided by source. source: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/6241/info A remotely exploitable buffer overrun condition has been reported in the XFS font server, fs.auto used by multiple vendors. This vulnerability may be exploited by remote attackers to execute commands on the targ...

IRIX 6.2/6.3/6.4 xfs truncate() Privilege Check Vulnerability

No description provided by source. source: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1540/info The truncate system call on a number of versions of the IRIX operating system with the xfs file system does not properly check permissions before truncating a file, making it possible for unprivileged users to...

RedHat Linux 6.x X Font Server DoS and Buffer Overflow Vulnerabilities

No description provided by source. source: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1111/info A denial of service exists in the X11 font server shipped with RedHat Linux 6.x. Due to improper input validation, it is possible for any user to crash the X fontserver. This will prevent the X server from...

X.Org xorg-x11-xfs <= 1.0.2-3.1 - Local Race Condition Exploit

No description provided by source. !/bin/sh Xorg-x11-xfs Race Condition Vuln local root exploit CVE-2007-3103 Another lame xploit by vl4dZ : works on redhat el5 and before $ id uid=1001kecos gid=1001user groups=1001user $ sh xfs-RaceCondition-root-exploit.sh Generate large data file in...

XFS Deleted Inode Local Information Disclosure Vulnerability

No description provided by source. / stalehandle.c - attempt to create a stale handle and open it Copyright C 2010 Red Hat, Inc. All Rights reserved. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free...

USN-2260-1: Linux kernel (Trusty HWE) vulnerabilities

A flaw was discovered in the Linux kernel's pseudo tty pty device. An unprivileged user could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service system crash or potentially gain administrator privileges. CVE-2014-0196 Pinkie Pie discovered a flaw in the Linux kernel's futex subsystem. An unprivileged...

openSUSE Security Update : kernel (openSUSE-SU-2013:1619-1)

The Linux kernel was updated to 3.4.63, fixing various bugs and security issues. - Linux 3.4.59 CVE-2013-2237 bnc828119. - Linux 3.4.57 CVE-2013-2148 bnc823517. - Linux 3.4.55 CVE-2013-2232 CVE-2013-2234 CVE-2013-4162 CVE-2013-4163 bnc827749 bnc827750 bnc831055 bnc831058. - Drivers: hv: util: Fix...

openSUSE Security Update : libXfont (openSUSE-SU-2014:0711-1)

libxfont was updated to fix multiple vulnerabilities : - Integer overflow of allocations in font metadata file parsing CVE-2014-0209. - Unvalidated length fields when parsing xfs protocol replies CVE-2014-0210. - Integer overflows calculating memory needs for xfs replies CVE-2014-0211. These...