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...