Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2010-4527

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available. - The loadmixervolumes function in sound/oss/soundcard.c in the OSS sound subsystem in the Linux kernel before 2.6.37 incorrectly expects that a certain name fiel...

Oracle Linux 4 : kernel (ELSA-2011-0263)

From Red Hat Security Advisory 2011:0263 : Updated kernel packages that fix three security issues, hundreds of bugs, and add numerous enhancements are now available as part of the ongoing support and maintenance of Red Hat Enterprise Linux version 4. This is the ninth regular update. The Red Hat...

Fedora 13 : kernel-2.6.34.9-69.fc13 (2011-6447)

Update to kernel 2.6.34.9 : http://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/longterm/v2.6.34/ChangeLog -2.6.34.9 Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as...

[USN-1133-1] Linux kernel vulnerabilities

========================================================================== Ubuntu Security Notice USN-1133-1 May 24, 2011 linux vulnerabilities ========================================================================== A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives: - Ubunt...

USN-1133-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Nelson Elhage discovered that Econet did not correctly handle AUN packets over UDP. A local attacker could send specially crafted traffic to crash the system, leading to a denial of service. CVE-2010-4342 Dan Rosenberg discovered that the OSS subsystem did not handle name termination correctly. A...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-1111-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2011 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...

Debian Security Advisory DSA 2153-1 (linux-2.6)

The remote host is missing an update to linux-2.6 announced via advisory DSA 2153-1. OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: deb21531.nasl 6613 2017-07-07 12:08:40Z cfischer $ Description: Auto-generated from advisory DSA 2153-1 linux-2.6 Authors: Thomas Reinke Copyright: Copyright c 2011 E-Soft Inc...

Ubuntu 10.04 LTS : linux-ec2 vulnerabilities (USN-1080-2)

Thomas Pollet discovered that the RDS network protocol did not check certain iovec buffers. A local attacker could exploit this to crash the system or possibly execute arbitrary code as the root user. CVE-2010-3865 Vasiliy Kulikov discovered that the Linux kernel X.25 implementation did not...

Ubuntu 10.04 LTS : linux vulnerabilities (USN-1080-1)

Thomas Pollet discovered that the RDS network protocol did not check certain iovec buffers. A local attacker could exploit this to crash the system or possibly execute arbitrary code as the root user. CVE-2010-3865 Vasiliy Kulikov discovered that the Linux kernel X.25 implementation did not...

Ubuntu 10.10 : linux vulnerabilities (USN-1081-1)

It was discovered that KVM did not correctly initialize certain CPU registers. A local attacker could exploit this to crash the system, leading to a denial of service. CVE-2010-3698 Thomas Pollet discovered that the RDS network protocol did not check certain iovec buffers. A local attacker could...

RedHat Update for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.9 kernel RHSA-2011:0263-01

Check for the Version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.9 kernel OpenVAS Vulnerability Test RedHat Update for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.9 kernel RHSA-2011:0263-01 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2011 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This program is free...

RedHat Update for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.9 kernel RHSA-2011:0263-01

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2011 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",...

RHEL 4 : Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.9 kernel (RHSA-2011:0263)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 4 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2011:0263 advisory. The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system. This update fixes the following security issues: A...

SuSE Update for kernel SUSE-SA:2011:008

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2011 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...

Debian DSA-2153-1 : linux-2.6 - privilege escalation/denial of service/information leak

Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Linux kernel that may lead to a privilege escalation, denial of service or information leak. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems : - CVE-2010-0435 Gleb Napatov reported an issue in the KVM subsystem...

CVE-2010-4527

The CVE-2010-4527 entry concerns the Linux kernel OSS sound driver (load_mixer_volumes in sound/oss/soundcard.c). It arises because a name field is not guaranteed to end with a NUL, enabling a local user to trigger a buffer overflow via SOUND_MIXER_SETLEVELS, with potential to escalate privileges...