SuSE 11.2 Security Update : Linux kernel (SAT Patch Numbers 6923 / 6926 / 6931)

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 SP2 kernel was updated to 3.0.42 which fixes various bugs and security issues. The following security issues have been fixed : - A denial of service in key management was fixed. This was fixed in 3.0.28 already, but is listed here. Some more security and bug fixes mig...

kernel: security and bugfix update (important)

This kernel update to 3.4.11 fixes various bugs and security issues. The changes up to 3.4.11 contain both security and bugfixes and are not explicitly listed here. Following security issues were fixed: CVE-2012-3520: Force passing credentials, otherwise local services could be fooled to assume...

Slackware Advisory SSA:2004-119-01 kernel security updates

The remote host is missing an update as announced via advisory SSA:2004-119-01. OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: esoftslkssa200411901.nasl 6598 2017-07-07 09:36:44Z cfischer $ Description: Auto-generated from the corresponding slackware advisory Authors: Thomas Reinke Copyright: Copyright c 2012...

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

A flaw was found in the handling of process death signals. This allowed a local user to send arbitrary signals to the suid-process executed by that user. A successful exploitation of this flaw depends on the structure of the suid-program and its signal handling. CVE-2007-3848, Important - A flaw...

SuSE 10 Security Update : Linux kernel (ZYPP Patch Number 4472)

This kernel update fixes the following security problems : - It was possible for local user to become root by exploiting a bug in the IA32 system call emulation. This affects x8664 platforms with kernel 2.4.x and 2.6.x before 2.6.22.7 only. CVE-2007-4573 - An information disclosure vulnerability ...

SuSE 10 Security Update : Linux kernel (ZYPP Patch Number 2605)

This kernel update fixes the following security problems : - The ftdisio driver allowed local users to cause a denial of service memory consumption by writing more data to the serial port than the hardware can handle, which causes the data to be queued. This requires this driver to be loaded, whi...

SuSE 11.1 Security Update : Linux kernel (SAT Patch Numbers 5493 / 5510 / 5511)

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 Service Pack 1 kernel has been updated to version 2.6.32.49 and fixes various bugs and security issues. - The TCP/IP initial sequence number generation effectively only used 24 bits of 32 to generate randomness, making a brute-force man-in-the-middle attack on TCP/IP...

Fedora 14 : xmms-1.2.11-15.20071117cvs.fc14 (2011-9421)

fix CVE-2007-0653 better late than never, huh? fix alsa output plugin loop fix desktop file Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible...

Fedora 15 : xmms-1.2.11-15.20071117cvs.fc15 (2011-9413)

fix CVE-2007-0653 better late than never, huh? fix alsa output plugin loop fix desktop file Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible...

kernel: ALSA: caiaq - Fix possible string-buffer overflow

Multiple buffer overflows in the caiaq Native Instruments USB audio functionality in the Linux kernel before 2.6.38-rc4-next-20110215 might allow attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact via a long USB device name, related to 1 the sndusbcaiaqaudioinit...

openSUSE Security Update : kernel (openSUSE-SU-2010:0895-2)

This security update of the SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 GA kernel updates the kernel to 2.6.27.54 and fixes various security issues and other bugs. Following security issues were fixed: CVE-2010-3310: Multiple integer signedness errors in net/rose/afrose.c in the Linux kernel allowed local users to...

CVE-2011-1476

Integer underflow in the Open Sound System OSS subsystem in the Linux kernel before 2.6.39 on unspecified non-x86 platforms allows local users to cause a denial of service memory corruption by leveraging write access to /dev/sequencer...

Linux Kernel ALSA "hpioctl.c"内存破坏漏洞

BUGTRAQ ID: 46914 CVE ID: CVE-2011-1169 ALSA是Linux内核中的高级Linux声音体系（英语：Advanced Linux Sound Architecture，缩写为ALSA），为声卡提供的驱动组件，以替代原先的OSS（开放声音系统）。 Linux Kernel在实现上存在内存破坏漏洞，远程攻击者可利用此漏洞运行任意代码或使系统崩溃，拒绝服务合法用户。 用户提供的适配器索引需要检查或越界内核指针可被访问或使用，导致内存破坏。 Linux kernel 2.6.x 厂商补丁： Linux -----...

Oracle Linux 4.9 kernel security and bug fix update

2.6.9-100 -cxgb3: prevent reading uninitialized stack memory to fix xgbextensionioctl infoleak Eugene Teo 633153 CVE-2010-3296 -mlx4: disable MSI-X by default Andy Gospodarek 530596 -ext3: call fs invalidatepage instead of blockinvalidatepage Josef Bacik 488611 -av7110: check for negative array...

Oracle Linux 5.6 kernel security and bug fix update

2.6.18-238.el5 - net bnx2: remove extra call to pcimappage John Feeney 663509 - fs nfs: set lockcontext field in nfsreadpagesync Jeff Layton 663853 2.6.18-237.el5 - block fully zeroize request struct in rqinit Rob Evers 662154 - scsi qla4xxx: update to 5.02.04.02.05.06-d0 Chad Dupuis 656999 - scs...

kernel security and bug fix update

2.6.9-89.35.1.0.1.EL - XEN fix cpu hotplug crash Joe Jin orabug 7521308 - XEN Bring up vcpus before khelper init Joe Jin orabug 7521308 - XEN flush the tlb cache immediately Dave McCracken, Scott Shi orabug 9138767 - fix skb alignment that was causing sendto to fail with EFAULT Olaf Kirch orabug...

SuSE 11 Security Update : Linux kernel (SAT Patch Numbers 3358 / 3361 / 3362)

This security update of the SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 GA kernel updates the kernel to 2.6.27.54 and fixes various security issues and other bugs. The following security issues were fixed : - Multiple integer signedness errors in net/rose/afrose.c in the Linux kernel allowed local users to cause a...

Mandriva Update for libalsa2 MDVA-2010:227 (libalsa2)

Check for the Version of libalsa2 OpenVAS Vulnerability Test Mandriva Update for libalsa2 MDVA-2010:227 libalsa2 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2010 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it...

MDVA-2010:227 : libalsa2

This is a bugfix and maintenance update bundle that addresses various issues in a number of packages. Some thread-related problems were found in the libalsa2 library that could cause segmentation faults in some audio applications one example being phonon when used with gstreamer output and...

Debian Security Advisory DSA 2110-1 (linux-2.6)

The remote host is missing an update to linux-2.6 announced via advisory DSA 2110-1. OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: deb21101.nasl 6614 2017-07-07 12:09:12Z cfischer $ Description: Auto-generated from advisory DSA 2110-1 linux-2.6 Authors: Thomas Reinke Copyright: Copyright c 2010 E-Soft Inc...