CVE-2012-2934

Xen 4.0, and 4.1, when running a 64-bit PV guest on "older" AMD CPUs, does not properly protect against a certain AMD processor bug, which allows local guest OS users to cause a denial of service host hang via sequential execution of instructions across a non-canonical boundary, a different...

CVE-2012-2934

Xen 4.0, and 4.1, when running a 64-bit PV guest on "older" AMD CPUs, does not properly protect against a certain AMD processor bug, which allows local guest OS users to cause a denial of service host hang via sequential execution of instructions across a non-canonical boundary, a different...

Scientific Linux Security Update : kernel on SL5.x i386/x86_64

This update addresses the following security issues : - a memory leak in keyctl handling. A local user could use this flaw to deplete kernel memory, eventually leading to a denial of service. CVE-2009-0031, Important - a buffer overflow in the Linux kernel Partial Reliable Stream Control...

CentOS Update for kernel CESA-2012:0721 centos5

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 scriptxrefname:"URL",...

Debian DSA-2508-1 : kfreebsd-8 - privilege escalation

Rafal Wojtczuk from Bromium discovered that FreeBSD wasn't handling correctly uncanonical return addresses on Intel amd64 CPUs, allowing privilege escalation to kernel for local users. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were...

DSA-2508-1 kfreebsd-8 - privilege escalation

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Debian DSA-2501-1 : xen - several vulnerabilities

Several vulnerabilities were discovered in Xen, a hypervisor. - CVE-2012-0217 Xen does not properly handle uncanonical return addresses on Intel amd64 CPUs, allowing amd64 PV guests to elevate to hypervisor privileges. AMD processors, HVM and i386 guests are not affected. - CVE-2012-0218 Xen does...

FreeBSD kernel privilege escalation

Privilege escalation on susret on some CPUs...

FreeBSD Security Advisory FreeBSD-SA-12:04.sysret [REVISED]

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 ============================================================================= FreeBSD-SA-12:04.sysret Security Advisory The FreeBSD Project Topic: Privilege escalation when returning from kernel Category: core Module: sysamd64 Announced: 2012-06-12...

RHEL 5 : kernel (RHSA-2012:0721)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 5 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2012:0721 advisory. The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system. This update fixes the following security issues: It wa...

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kernel: 2.6.18-308.8.2.0.1.el5 - net bonding: fix carrier detect when bond is down orabug 12377284 - mm fix hugetlb page leak Dave McCracken orabug 12375075 - fix ia64 build error due to add-support-above-32-vcpus.patchZhenzhong Duan - x86 use dynamic vcpuinfo remap to support more than 32 vcpus...

Security Concern : Internet Enabled TV can be hacked !

Security Concern : Internet Enabled TV can be hacked ! Is your Internet TV vulnerable to hackers? Internet TVs could be the newest avenue for cybercriminals to infiltrate your home or business. Last year, Researchers at Mocana, a security technology company in San Francisco, recently discovered...

Fedora 14 : openssl-1.0.0e-1.fc14 (2011-12281)

New upstream release fixing CVE-2011-3207 and a few other minor bugs. It also improves performance of AES, SHA1 and RC4 on new Intel CPUs and enables VIA Padlock HW acceleration support on 64 bit architecture. Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block direct...

CentOS 5 : kernel (CESA-2010:0147)

Updated kernel packages that fix multiple security issues and several bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having important security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base scores, which give detailed...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: kernel security and bug fix update

Updated kernel packages that fix multiple security issues and several bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having important security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base scores, which give detailed...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.3 kernel security and bug fix update

Updated kernel packages that fix three security issues, address several hundred bugs and add numerous enhancements are now available as part of the ongoing support and maintenance of Red Hat Enterprise Linux version 5. This is the third regular update. This update has been rated as having importa...

Intel Core 2 CPUs multiple security vulnerabilities

Multiple vulnerabilities allow application to access protected pages and corrupt data in memory...

USN-302-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

An integer overflow was discovered in the doreplace function. A local user process with the CAPNETADMIN capability could exploit this to execute arbitrary commands with full root privileges. However, none of Ubuntu's supported packages use this capability with any non-root user, so this only...

Design/Logic Flaw

Linux kernel before 2.6.16.5 does not properly handle uncanonical return addresses on Intel EM64T CPUs, which reports an exception in the SYSRET instead of the next instruction, which causes the kernel exception handler to run on the user stack with the wrong GS...

CVE-2006-0744

Linux kernel before 2.6.16.5 does not properly handle uncanonical return addresses on Intel EM64T CPUs, which reports an exception in the SYSRET instead of the next instruction, which causes the kernel exception handler to run on the user stack with the wrong GS...