USN-1389-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Paolo Bonzini discovered a flaw in Linux's handling of the SGIO ioctl command. A local user, or user in a VM could exploit this flaw to bypass restrictions and gain read/write access to all data on the affected block device. CVE-2011-4127 A flaw was found in KVM's Programmable Interval Timer PIT...

USN-1388-1: Linux kernel (EC2) vulnerabilities

Paolo Bonzini discovered a flaw in Linux's handling of the SGIO ioctl command. A local user, or user in a VM could exploit this flaw to bypass restrictions and gain read/write access to all data on the affected block device. CVE-2011-4127 A flaw was found in KVM's Programmable Interval Timer PIT...

kernel: xfs: potential buffer overflow in xfs_readlink()

Buffer overflow in the xfsreadlink function in fs/xfs/xfsvnodeops.c in XFS in the Linux kernel 2.6, when CONFIGXFSDEBUG is disabled, allows local users to cause a denial of service memory corruption and crash and possibly execute arbitrary code via an XFS image containing a symbolic link with a...

Moderate: 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 6. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having moderate security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base scores, which give detailed severi...

USN-1387-1: Linux kernel (Maverick backport) vulnerabilities

Aristide Fattori and Roberto Paleari reported a flaw in the Linux kernel's handling of IPv4 icmp packets. A remote user could exploit this to cause a denial of service. CVE-2011-1927 A flaw was found in the Linux Ethernet bridge's handling of IGMP Internet Group Management Protocol packets. An...

USN-1386-1: Linux kernel (Natty backport) vulnerabilities

The linux kernel did not properly account for PTE pages when deciding which task to kill in out of memory conditions. A local, unprivileged could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service. CVE-2011-2498 A flaw was discovered in the TOMOYO LSM's handling of mount system calls. An unprivileged...

USN-1384-1: Linux kernel (Oneiric backport) vulnerabilities

A bug was discovered in the Linux kernel's calculation of OOM Out of memory scores, that would result in the wrong process being killed. A user could use this to kill the process with the highest OOM score, even if that process belongs to another user or the system. CVE-2011-4097 Paolo Bonzini...

util-linux security, bug fix, and enhancement update

2.13-0.59.0.1.el5 - Merge UEK modification fix 10104470 - Import hwclock from util-linux-ng Kris Van Hees 2.13-0.59 - fix 768382 - CVE-2011-1675 CVE-2011-1677 util-linux various flaws 2.13-0.58 - fix 677452 - util-linux fails to build with gettext-0.17 2.13-0.57 - fix 646300 - login doesn't updat...

kernel: xfs: potential buffer overflow in xfs_readlink()

Buffer overflow in the xfsreadlink function in fs/xfs/xfsvnodeops.c in XFS in the Linux kernel 2.6, when CONFIGXFSDEBUG is disabled, allows local users to cause a denial of service memory corruption and crash and possibly execute arbitrary code via an XFS image containing a symbolic link with a...

kernel: xfs heap overflow

Integer overflow in the xfsaclfromdisk function in fs/xfs/xfsacl.c in the Linux kernel before 3.1.9 allows local users to cause a denial of service panic via a filesystem with a malformed ACL, leading to a heap-based buffer overflow...

Ubuntu Update for linux USN-1361-1

Ubuntu Update for Linux kernel vulnerabilities USN-1361-1 OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: gbubuntuUSN13611.nasl 7960 2017-12-01 06:58:16Z santu $ Ubuntu Update for linux USN-1361-1 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2012 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This...

RedHat Update for util-linux RHSA-2012:0307-03

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2012 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",...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-1362-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2012 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...

Ubuntu Update for linux USN-1362-1

Ubuntu Update for Linux kernel vulnerabilities USN-1362-1 OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: gbubuntuUSN13621.nasl 7960 2017-12-01 06:58:16Z santu $ Ubuntu Update for linux USN-1362-1 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2012 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-1361-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2012 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...

[USN-1364-1] Linux kernel (OMAP4) vulnerabilities

========================================================================== Ubuntu Security Notice USN-1364-1 February 13, 2012 linux-ti-omap4 vulnerabilities ========================================================================== A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its...

Ubuntu 11.10 : linux vulnerabilities (USN-1363-1)

A bug was discovered in the Linux kernel's calculation of OOM Out of memory scores, that would result in the wrong process being killed. A user could use this to kill the process with the highest OOM score, even if that process belongs to another user or the system. CVE-2011-4097 A flaw was found...

USN-1364-1 : linux-ti-omap4 vulnerabilities

A flaw was discovered in the XFS filesystem. If a local user mounts a specially crafted XFS image it could potential execute arbitrary code on the system. CVE-2012-0038 Andy Whitcroft discovered a that the Overlayfs filesystem was not doing the extended permission checks needed by cgroups and Lin...

Ubuntu 10.10 : linux vulnerabilities (USN-1361-1)

Han-Wen Nienhuys reported a flaw in the FUSE kernel module. A local user who can mount a FUSE file system could cause a denial of service. CVE-2011-3353 A flaw was found in KVM's Programmable Interval Timer PIT. When a virtual interrupt control is not available a local user could use this to caus...

Ubuntu 11.04 : linux vulnerabilities (USN-1362-1)

Han-Wen Nienhuys reported a flaw in the FUSE kernel module. A local user who can mount a FUSE file system could cause a denial of service. CVE-2011-3353 A flaw was found in KVM's Programmable Interval Timer PIT. When a virtual interrupt control is not available a local user could use this to caus...