Linux kernel 2.6.22 < 3.9 elevation of privilege vulnerability (Dirty COW)

Summary A race condition was found in the way the Linux kernel's memory subsystem handled the copy-on-write COW breakage of private read-only memory mappings. All the information we have so far is included in this page. The bug has existed since around 2.6.22 released in 2007 and was fixed on Oct...

[ASA-201610-14] linux: privilege escalation

Arch Linux Security Advisory ASA-201610-14 ========================================== Severity: High Date : 2016-10-22 CVE-ID : CVE-2016-5195 Package : linux Type : privilege escalation Remote : No Link : https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/CVE Summary ======= The package linux before version...

[ASA-201610-11] linux-lts: privilege escalation

Arch Linux Security Advisory ASA-201610-11 ========================================== Severity: High Date : 2016-10-21 CVE-ID : CVE-2016-5195 Package : linux-lts Type : privilege escalation Remote : No Link : https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/CVE Summary ======= The package linux-lts before...

USN-3106-4: Linux kernel (Qualcomm Snapdragon) vulnerability

It was discovered that a race condition existed in the memory manager of the Linux kernel when handling copy-on-write breakage of private read-only memory mappings. A local attacker could use this to gain administrative privileges...

Critical: kernel

Issue Overview: A race condition was found in the way the Linux kernel's memory subsystem handled the copy-on-write COW breakage of private read-only memory mappings. An unprivileged local user could use this flaw to gain write access to otherwise read-only memory mappings and thus increase their...

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : OpenSSL vulnerabilities (USN-2830-1)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-2830-1 advisory. Guy Leaver discovered that OpenSSL incorrectly handled a ServerKeyExchange for an anonymous DH ciphersuite with the value of p set to 0. A remote attacke...

Blackhat 2015 Arsenal

Last month at Blackhat Arsenal 2015, Pete and I @willis presented on Serpico. This was our second time at Arsenal. Yet again, awesome people, great venue, and overall a highlight for me of BH/DC/LV. We got some excellent feedback on the project, so thank you to anyone who stopped by. Last year I...

CVE-2015-5180

resquery in libresolv in glibc before 2.25 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service NULL pointer dereference and process crash...

unbreakable enterprise kernel security update

kernel-uek 2.6.32-400.36.3uek - fix autofs/afs/etc. magic mountpoint breakage Al Viro Orabug: 19028505 CVE-2014-0203 - SELinux: Fix kernel BUG on empty security contexts. Stephen Smalley Orabug: 19028381 CVE-2014-1874 - floppy: don't write kernel-only members to FDRAWCMD ioctl output Matthew Dale...

Updated kernel packages fix multiple security vulnerabilities

This kernel update provides the upstream 3.4.52 kernel and fixes the following security issues: The pcibackenablemsi function in the PCI backend driver drivers/xen/pciback/confspacecapabilitymsi.c in Xen for the Linux kernel 2.6.18 and 3.8 allows guest OS users with PCI device access to cause a...

Unbreakable Enterprise kernel security and bug fix update

2.6.32-300.37.1. - sfc: Replace some literal constants with EFXPAGESIZE/EFXBUFSIZE Ben Hutchings Orabug: 14769994 - CVE-2012-3412 sfc: Fix maximum number of TSO segments and minimum TX queue size Ben Hutchings Orabug: 14769994 CVE-2012-3412 2.6.32-300.36.1. - dl2k: Clean up rioioctl Stephan Muell...

Slackware Advisory SSA:2011-145-02 httpd

The remote host is missing an update as announced via advisory SSA:2011-145-02. OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: esoftslkssa201114502.nasl 6581 2017-07-06 13:58:51Z cfischer $ Description: Auto-generated from advisory SSA:2011-145-02 Authors: Thomas Reinke Copyright: Copyright c 2012 E-Soft Inc...

Slackware: Security Advisory (SSA:2011-145-02)

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...

Slackware 12.0 / 12.1 / 12.2 / 13.0 / 13.1 / 13.37 / current : httpd (SSA:2011-145-02)

New httpd packages are available for Slackware 12.0, 12.1, 12.2, 13.0, 13.1, 13.37, and -current to fix accidental ABI breakage caused by httpd-2.2.18. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from Slackware Securit...

[slackware-security] httpd

New httpd packages are available for Slackware 12.0, 12.1, 12.2, 13.0, 13.1, 13.37, and -current to fix accidental ABI breakage caused by httpd-2.2.18. Here are the details from the Slackware 13.37 ChangeLog: patches/packages/httpd-2.2.19-i486-1slack13.37.txz: Upgraded. Revert ABI breakage in...

Fedora 15 : asterisk-1.8.3-1.fc15 (2011-2360)

The Asterisk Development Team has announced the release of Asterisk 1.8.3. This release is available for immediate download at http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/telephony/asterisk/ The release of Asterisk 1.8.3 resolves several issues reported by the community and would have not been possible...

Security fix for the ALT Linux 6 package openssl10 version 0.9.8o-alt1

Sept. 29, 2010 Dmitry V. Levin 0.9.8o-alt1 - Updated to 0.9.8o fixes CVE-2010-0742. - Fixed ssl/dtls1.h ABI breakage introduced in 0.9.8m. - Fixed 0.9.8m build regression on architectures where %lib != lib...

Security fix for the ALT Linux 9 package openssl10 version 0.9.8o-alt1

Sept. 29, 2010 Dmitry V. Levin 0.9.8o-alt1 - Updated to 0.9.8o fixes CVE-2010-0742. - Fixed ssl/dtls1.h ABI breakage introduced in 0.9.8m. - Fixed 0.9.8m build regression on architectures where %lib != lib...