kernel security update

CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-2006:0575 Updated kernel packages are now available as part of ongoing support and maintenance of Red Hat Enterprise Linux version 4. This update has been rated as having important security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team. The Linux kernel...

kernel security update

CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-2006:0437 Updated kernel packages are now available as part of ongoing support and maintenance of Red Hat Enterprise Linux version 3. This is the eighth regular update. This security advisory has been rated as having important security impact by the Red Ha...

kernel security update

CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-2006:0579-01 Updated kernel packages that fix a number of security issues as well as other bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1 32 bit architectures This security advisory has been rated as having important security impact by the Red Hat...

RHEL 2.1 : kernel (RHSA-2006:0579)

Updated kernel packages that fix a number of security issues as well as other bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1 32 bit architectures This security advisory has been rated as having important security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team. The Linux kernel handles the...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: kernel security update

Updated kernel packages that fix a number of security issues as well as other bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1 32 bit architectures This security advisory has been rated as having important security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team. The Linux kernel handles the...

FreeBSD Security Advisory FreeBSD-SA-06:14.fpu

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 ============================================================================= FreeBSD-SA-06:14.fpu Security Advisory The FreeBSD Project Topic: FPU information disclosure Category: core Module: sys Announced: 2006-04-19 Credits: Jan Beulich Affects: A...

FreeBSD -- FPU information disclosure

Problem Description On "7th generation" and "8th generation" processors manufactured by AMD, including the AMD Athlon, Duron, Athlon MP, Athlon XP, Athlon64, Athlon64 FX, Opteron, Turion, and Sempron, the fxsave and fxrstor instructions do not save and restore the FOP, FIP, and FDP registers unle...

ChangeLog-2.6.16.9

commit 9d395d1961a0eeb9e8b1ef2854f3ca8f0b985266 Author: Greg Kroah-Hartman [email protected] Date: Tue Apr 18 23:10:14 2006 -0700 Linux 2.6.16.9 commit 7466f9e72dac13452d871a3fb72fc7bd9c93c864 Author: Andi Kleen [email protected] Date: Wed Apr 19 07:17:31 2006 +0200 PATCH i386/x86-64: Fix x87 information...

FreeBSD-SA-06:14.fpu

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 ============================================================================= FreeBSD-SA-06:14.fpu Security Advisory The FreeBSD Project Topic: FPU information disclosure Category: core Module: sys Announced: 2006-04-19 Credits: Jan Beulich Affects:...

MDKSA-2005:220 - Updated kernel packages fix numerous vulnerabilities

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Mandriva Linux Security Advisory MDKSA-2005:220 http://www.mandriva.com/security/ Package : kernel Date : November 30, 2005 Affected: 10.2 Problem Description: Multiple vulnerabilities in the Linux 2.6 kernel have been discovered and corrected in this...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: kernel security update

Updated kernel packages that fix several security issues and a page attribute mapping bug 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 Linux kernel handles the basic functions of the...

CVE-2005-1764

Linux 2.6.11 on 64-bit x86 x8664 platforms does not use a guard page for the 47-bit address page to protect against an AMD K8 bug, which allows local users to cause a denial of service...

security flaw

The ptrace call in the Linux kernel 2.6.8.1 and 2.6.10 for the AMD64 platform allows local users to cause a denial of service kernel crash via a "non-canonical" address...

security flaw

ptrace in Linux kernel 2.6.8.1 does not properly verify addresses on the amd64 platform, which allows local users to cause a denial of service kernel crash...

Fedora Core 4 : kernel-2.6.12-1.1447_FC4 (2005-820)

Fri Aug 26 2005 Dave Jones 2.6.12-1.1447FC4 - Better identify local builds. 159696 - Fix disk/net dump & netconsole. 152586 - Fix up sleeping in invalid context in sym2 driver. 164995 - Fix 'semaphore is not ready' error in snd-intel8x0m. - Restore hwclock functionality on some systems. 144894 -...

CVE-2004-0812

CVE-2004-0812 describes a local privilege/denial-of-service issue in the Linux kernel before 2.4.23 on AMD64 and Intel EM64T architectures, related to how TSS limits are set up. The vulnerability could allow a local user to crash the system and, in some scenarios, potentially execute arbitrary co...

security flaw

Unknown vulnerability in the 32bit emulation code in Linux 2.4 on AMD64 systems allows local users to gain privileges...

OpteronMicrocode.txt

Topic: Opteron Exposed: Reverse Engineering AMD K8 Microcode Updates Name: Anonymous [email protected] 7/22/04 Opteron Exposed: Reverse Engineering AMD K8 Microcode Updates Summary This document details the procedure for performing microcode updates on the AMD K8 processors. It also gives background...

CVE-1999-1442

Bug in AMD K6 processor on Linux 2.0.x and 2.1.x kernels allows local users to cause a denial of service crash via a particular sequence of instructions, possibly related to accessing addresses outside of segments...

CVE-1999-1442

The CVE-1999-1442 entry describes a bug in AMD K6 processors running Linux 2.0.x and 2.1.x kernels where a specific sequence of instructions can be used by a local attacker to trigger a denial of service (kernel crash). Affected component: AMD K6 processor in these Linux kernel versions; root cau...