Updated lxc package fixes security vulnerability

Roman Fiedler discovered that LXC had a directory traversal flaw when creating lock files. A local attacker could exploit this flaw to create an arbitrary file as the root user CVE-2015-1331. Roman Fiedler discovered that LXC incorrectly trusted the container's proc filesystem to set up AppArmor...

openSUSE Security Update : lxc (openSUSE-2015-523)

lxc was updated to fix two security issues. The following vulnerabilities were fixed : - CVE-2015-1331: directory traversal flaw allowing arbitrary file creation as the root user bnc938522 - CVE-2015-1334: AppArmor or SELinux confinement escape via fake /proc bnc938523 %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenab...

USN-2675-1 lxc vulnerabilities

Roman Fiedler discovered that LXC had a directory traversal flaw when creating lock files. A local attacker could exploit this flaw to create an arbitrary file as the root user. CVE-2015-1331 Roman Fiedler discovered that LXC incorrectly trusted the container's proc filesystem to set up AppArmor...

CVE-2015-1334

attach.c in LXC 1.1.2 and earlier uses the proc filesystem in a container, which allows local container users to escape AppArmor or SELinux confinement by mounting a proc filesystem with a crafted 1 AppArmor profile or 2 SELinux label...

Pirate Bay co-founder 'Anakata' suspected of hacking Danish police databases

The Pirate Bay co-founder Gottfrid Svartholm Warg a.k.a 'Anakata' is suspected of being involved in one of Denmark's biggest hack attacks. Gottfrid was arrested in Cambodia in September 2012 and has been extradited from Cambodia to Sweden last year, charged with hacking the IBM mainframe of Logic...

Ubuntu Update for apport USN-1668-1

Ubuntu Update for Linux kernel vulnerabilities USN-1668-1 OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: gbubuntuUSN16681.nasl 7960 2017-12-01 06:58:16Z santu $ Ubuntu Update for apport USN-1668-1 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2012 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This...

Ubuntu 10.04 LTS / 11.10 / 12.04 LTS : apport update (USN-1668-1)

Dan Rosenberg discovered that an application running under an AppArmor profile that allowed unconfined execution of apport-bug could escape confinement by calling apport-bug with a crafted environment. While not a vulnerability in apport itself, this update mitigates the issue by sanitizing certa...

CentOS Update for systemtap CESA-2009:0373 centos4 i386

Check for the Version of systemtap OpenVAS Vulnerability Test CentOS Update for systemtap CESA-2009:0373 centos4 i386 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2011 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify ...

Ubuntu 10.04 LTS / 10.10 / 11.04 : libvirt vulnerabilities (USN-1152-1)

It was discovered that libvirt did not use thread-safe error reporting. A remote attacker could exploit this to cause a denial of service via application crash. CVE-2011-1486 Eric Blake discovered that libvirt had an off-by-one error which could be used to reopen disk probing and bypass the fix f...

SuSE9 Security Update : subdomain-parser (YOU Patch Number 11787)

The following patch supports new language features in AppArmor which have been added to improve the confinement provided to applications executing other applications will confined by AppArmor. Two new execute modifiers: 'P' and 'U' are provided and are flavors of the exisiting 'p' and 'u' modifie...

systemtap security update

CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-2009:0373 Updated systemtap packages that fix a security issue are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 and 5. This update has been rated as having moderate security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team. SystemTap is an instrumentation...