kernel: ext4: AIO vs fallocate stale data exposure

Race condition in fs/ext4/extents.c in the Linux kernel before 3.4.16 allows local users to obtain sensitive information from a deleted file by reading an extent that was not properly marked as uninitialized...

kernel, perf, python security update

CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-2013:0496 Updated kernel packages that fix multiple security issues, address several hundred bugs, and add numerous enhancements are now available as part of the ongoing support and maintenance of Red Hat Enterprise Linux version 6. This is the fourth...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 kernel update

Updated kernel packages that fix multiple security issues, address several hundred bugs, and add numerous enhancements are now available as part of the ongoing support and maintenance of Red Hat Enterprise Linux version 6. This is the fourth regular update. The Red Hat Security Response Team has...

Moderate: Red Hat Security Advisory: kernel security and bug fix update

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

RHEL 4 : kernel (RHSA-2010:0779)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 4 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2010:0779 advisory. The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system. This update fixes the following security issues:...

kernel: create_elf_tables can leave urandom in a bad state

Use-after-free vulnerability in the fasynchelper function in fs/fcntl.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.33-rc4-git1 allows local users to gain privileges via vectors that include enabling OASYNC aka FASYNC or FIOASYNC on a locked file, and then closing this file...

CentOS Update for kernel CESA-2008:0211 centos3 x86_64

Check for the Version of kernel OpenVAS Vulnerability Test CentOS Update for kernel CESA-2008:0211 centos3 x8664 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...

CVE-2009-0435

IBM WebSphere Application Server 6.1.x on AIX 5.3 is affected by a denial-of-service vulnerability in the IBM JMS AIO/libibmaio library (aio_getioev2 and getEvent). The issue exists in WAS 6.1.x before 6.1.0.17 and can cause a daemon crash. Remediation: upgrade to WAS 6.1.0.17 or later Fix Pack t...

CVE-1999-1214

The CVE-1999-1214 issue affects the 4.4 BSD kernel’s asynchronous I/O facility. It does not validate credentials when setting the recipient of I/O notification, allowing a local user to trigger a signal to an arbitrary process ID via specific ioctl/fcntl calls, causing a denial of service. The do...

Linux news 30.04.00

Linux 2.3.99-pre6 Вышло новое ядро Linux из "нестабильной" серии: Linux 2.3.99-pre6. Подробнее: http://linuxtoday.com/stories/20829.html Kernel traffic 64 В новой версии обзора списка рассылки ядра можно узнать интересные подробности о: - дискуссии о DevFS - ошибках ioctl - проблемах с асинхронны...