Debian Security Advisory DSA 1103-1 (kernel-source-2.6.8)

The remote host is missing an update to kernel-source-2.6.8 announced via advisory DSA 1103-1. OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: deb11031.nasl 6616 2017-07-07 12:10:49Z cfischer $ Description: Auto-generated from advisory DSA 1103-1 Authors: Thomas Reinke Copyright: Copyright c 2007 E-Soft Inc...

Debian: Security Advisory (DSA-1103)

The remote host is missing an update for the Debian SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2008 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...

Code injection

Linux kernel 2.4.x and 2.6.x up to 2.6.16 allows local users to bypass IPC permissions and modify a readonly attachment of shared memory by using mprotect to give write permission to the attachment. NOTE: some original raw sources combined this issue with CVE-2006-1524, but they are different bug...

CVE-2006-1524

madviseremove in Linux kernel 2.6.16 up to 2.6.16.6 does not follow file and mmap restrictions, which allows local users to bypass IPC permissions and replace portions of readonly tmpfs files with zeroes, aka the MADVREMOVE vulnerability. NOTE: this description was originally written in a way tha...

CVE-2006-1524

The MADV_REMOVE issue (CVE-2006-1524) affects Linux kernel 2.6.16 up to 2.6.16.6, where madvise_remove does not enforce file/mmap restrictions, enabling a local user to bypass IPC permissions and overwrite portions of readonly tmpfs files with zeros. The problem is tied to the mprotect-related fl...