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...

SuSE 11.2 Security Update : Linux kernel (SAT Patch Numbers 6641 / 6643 / 6648)

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 SP2 kernel was updated to 3.0.38, fixing various bugs and security issues. The following security issues have been fixed : - Several buffer overread and overwrite errors in the UDF logical volume descriptor code have been fixed that might have have allowed local...

SuSE 11.2 Security Update : Linux kernel (SAT Patch Numbers 6453 / 6457)

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 SP2 kernel was updated to 3.0.34, fixing a lot of bugs and security issues. The update from Linux kernel 3.0.31 to 3.0.34 also fixes various bugs not listed here. The following security issues have been fixed : - Local attackers could trigger an overflow in...

SuSE 11.2 Security Update : Linux Kernel (SAT Patch Numbers 6338 / 6345 / 6349)

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 SP2 kernel was updated to 3.0.31, fixing many bugs and security issues. Various security and bug fixes contained in the Linux 3.0 stable releases 3.0.27 up to 3.0.31 have been included, but are not explicitly listed below. The following notable security issues have be...

btrfs DoS

DoS via reproducable hash collisions...

[btrfs] is vulnerable to a hash-DoS attack

Hello folk, The btrfs file system, part of the linux kernel, is vulnerable to a trivial hash-DoS attack. More details can be found here: http://crypto.junod.info/2012/12/13/hash-dos-and-btrfs/ Enjoy! Pascal Junod -- http://crypto.junod.info @cryptopathe...

Linux Kernel 3.3.5 - Btrfs CRC32C feature Infinite Loop Local Denial of Service

source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/56939/info The Linux kernel is prone to a local denial-of-service vulnerability. Attackers can exploit this issue to cause an infinite loop, resulting in a denial-of-service condition. !/usr/bin/env python Borrows code from """Calculate and manipulate...

Linux Kernel 3.3.5 - Btrfs CRC32C feature Infinite Loop Local Denial of Service

Linux Kernel 3.3.5 - Btrfs CRC32C feature Infinite Loop Local Denial of Service source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/56939/info The Linux kernel is prone to a local denial-of-service vulnerability. Attackers can exploit this issue to cause an infinite loop, resulting in a denial-of-service...

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...

Scientific Linux Security Update : busybox on SL6.x i386/x86_64 (20120620)

BusyBox provides a single binary that includes versions of a large number of system commands, including a shell. This can be very useful for recovering from certain types of system failures, particularly those involving broken shared libraries. A buffer underflow flaw was found in the way the...

CentOS Update for busybox CESA-2012:0810 centos6

Check for the Version of busybox OpenVAS Vulnerability Test CentOS Update for busybox CESA-2012:0810 centos6 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2012 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under...

busybox security update

CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-2012:0810 Updated busybox packages that fix two 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 low security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System...

busybox security and bug fix update

1:1.15.1-15 - Fix btrfs support to findfs and related applets - Resolves: 751927 1:1.15.1-14 - Resolves: 790335 'busybox various flaws' Added a fix for SEGV on empty command in hush 1:1.15.1-13 - Resolves: 790335 'busybox various flaws' including: 'buffer underflow in decompression' 'udhcpc...

libguestfs security, bug fix, and enhancement update

1:1.16.19-1 - Rebase to libguestfs 1.16.19 resolves: rhbz719879 - Rebuild against augeas 0.9.0-3.el6 related: rhbz808662 - Fix: Don't abort inspection if mdadm.conf ARRAY doesn't have a uuid. - Switch back to git for patch management. 1:1.16.18-2 - Rebase to libguestfs 1.16.18 resolves: rhbz71987...

RedHat Update for busybox RHSA-2012:0810-04

Check for the Version of busybox OpenVAS Vulnerability Test RedHat Update for busybox RHSA-2012:0810-04 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2012 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the...

Low: Red Hat Security Advisory: busybox security and bug fix update

Updated busybox packages that fix two 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 low security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base scores, which give detailed severity...

SuSE 11.2 Security Update : Linux kernel (SAT Patch Numbers 6163 / 6164 / 6172)

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 SP2 kernel has been updated to 3.0.26, which fixes a lot of bugs and security issues. The following security issues have been fixed : - A locking problem in transparent hugepage support could be used by local attackers to potentially crash the host, or via kvm a...

USN-1074-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Al Viro discovered a race condition in the TTY driver. A local attacker could exploit this to crash the system, leading to a denial of service. CVE-2009-4895 Dan Rosenberg discovered that the MOVEEXT ext4 ioctl did not correctly check file permissions. A local attacker could overwrite append-only...

SuSE 11.1 Security Update : Linux Kernel (SAT Patch Numbers 2760 / 2763 / 2764)

This SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 Service Pack 1 kernel contains various security fixes and other bugfixes. Notable larger bug fixes and changes : - A deadlock in virtual interface handling in XEN introduced by the last update has been fixed. - The btrfs file system received backports of lots of fixe...

SuSE 11.1 Security Update : Linux kernel (SAT Patch Numbers 3068 / 3069 / 3070)

This SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 Service Pack 1 kernel contains various security fixes and lots of other bugfixes. Notable larger bugfixes and changes : - 603464: Fix system freezewhen doing a network crashdump with a netxennic driver - 610828: Avoid kernel failure on connects/disconnects to a novel...