Denial Of Service (DoS)

The kernel is vulnerable to denial of service DoS. A flaw in the Linux kernel's packet writing driver could be triggered via the PKTCTRLCMDSTATUS IOCTL request, possibly allowing a local, unprivileged user with access to "/dev/pktcdvd/control" to cause an information leak. Note: By default, only...

[SECURITY] New Debian xmcd packages released

Package: xmcd Vulnerability: untrustworthy privileged binaries Debian-specific: yes Vulnerable: yes The Debian GNU/Linux xmcd package has historically installed two setuid helpers for accessing cddb databases and SCSI cdrom drives. More recently, the package offered the administrator the chance t...