RHEL 4 : glibc (Unpatched Vulnerability)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 4 host has one or more packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities that have been acknowledged by the vendor but will not be patched. - glibc: posixspawnfileactionsaddopen fails to copy the path argument CVE-2014-4043 - glibc: heap/stack gap...

Oracle: Security Advisory (ELSA-2011-0412)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2015 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...

ESXi 5.0 < Build 515841 Multiple Vulnerabilities (remote check)

The remote VMware ESXi 5.0 host is affected by the following security vulnerabilities : - A security bypass vulnerability exists in the e1000 driver in the Linux kernel due to improper handling of Ethernet frames that exceed the MTU. An unauthenticated, remote attacker can exploit this, via...

VMSA-2011-0012 : VMware ESXi and ESX updates to third-party libraries and ESX Service Console

a. ESX third-party update for Service Console kernel This update takes the console OS kernel package to kernel-2.6.18-238.9.1 which resolves multiple security issues. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project cve.mitre.org has assigned the names CVE-2010-1083, CVE-2010-2492, CVE-2010-2798,...

VMSA-2011-0010 : VMware ESX third-party updates for Service Console packages glibc and dhcp

a. Service Console update for DHCP The DHCP client daemon, dhclient, does not properly sanatize certain options in DHCP server replies. An attacker could send a specially crafted DHCP server reply, that is saved on the client system and evaluated by a process that assumes the option is trusted...

CVE-2011-1658

CVE-2011-1658 affects the GNU C Library (glibc) ld.so: when RPATH consists entirely of the special token $ORIGIN, it can enable local privilege escalation by linking a crafted LD_PRELOAD with a setuid/setgid program. Affected are glibc versions 2.13 and earlier. The root cause is expansion of the...

RHEL 5 : glibc (RHSA-2011:0412)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 5 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2011:0412 advisory. - glibc: Improper encoding of names with certain special character in utilities for writing to mtab table CVE-2010-0296 - glibc: CVE-2010-38...