Oracle Linux 5 : kernel (ELSA-2008-0957)

The remote Oracle Linux 5 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2008-0957 advisory. - i386 vDSO: use installspecialmapping Peter Zijlstra 460275 460276 CVE-2008-3527 - fs remove SUID when splicing into an inode Eric Sandeen 464451 4644...

SLES10: Security update for Linux kernel

The remote host is missing updates to packages that affect the security of your system. One or more of the following packages are affected: kernel-bigsmp kernel-debug kernel-default kernel-kdump kernel-smp kernel-source kernel-syms kernel-vmi kernel-vmipae kernel-xen kernel-xenpae More details ma...

openSUSE Security Update : kernel (kernel-67)

The openSUSE 11.0 kernel was updated to 2.6.25.9. It fixes two security problems: CVE-2008-2372: A resource starvation issue within mmap was fixed, which could have been used by local attackers to hang the machine. CVE-2008-2826: A integer overflow in SCTP was fixed, which might have been used by...

SuSE Update for kernel SUSE-SA:2008:037

Check for the Version of kernel OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: gbsuse2008037.nasl 8050 2017-12-08 09:34:29Z santu $ SuSE Update for kernel SUSE-SA:2008:037 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2009 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This program is free software;...

USN-659-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

It was discovered that the direct-IO subsystem did not correctly validate certain structures. A local attacker could exploit this to cause a system crash, leading to a denial of service. CVE-2007-6716 It was discovered that the disabling of the ZEROPAGE optimization could lead to large memory...

CVE-2008-2372

CVE-2008-2372 affects the Linux kernel versions 2.6.24 and 2.6.25 before 2.6.25.9. The root cause is a lack of ZERO_PAGE optimization in get_user_pages, causing the allocation of many useless newly zeroed pages and enabling a local user to trigger a denial of service through memory exhaustion. Th...