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kernel security and bug fix update
2.6.9-89.0.18.0.1.EL - fix skb alignment that was causing sendto to fail with EFAULT Olaf Kirch orabug 6845794 - fix enomem due to larger mtu size page alloc Zach Brown orabug 5486128 - backout patch sysrq-b that queues upto keventd thread Guru Anbalagane orabug 6125546 - netrx/netpoll race...
RHEL 4 : kernel (RHSA-2009:1671)
Updated kernel packages that fix multiple security issues and several bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4. This update has been rated as having important security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team. The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux...
RHEL 5 : kernel (RHSA-2009:1670)
Updated kernel packages that fix multiple security issues and several bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. This update has been rated as having important security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team. The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux...
kernel: AF_UNIX: Fix deadlock on connecting to shutdown socket
net/unix/afunix.c in the Linux kernel 2.6.31.4 and earlier allows local users to cause a denial of service system hang by creating an abstract-namespace AFUNIX listening socket, performing a shutdown operation on this socket, and then performing a series of connect operations to this socket...
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 4. This update has been rated as having important security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team. The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux...
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. This update has been rated as having important security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team. The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux...
kernel: AF_UNIX: Fix deadlock on connecting to shutdown socket
net/unix/afunix.c in the Linux kernel 2.6.31.4 and earlier allows local users to cause a denial of service system hang by creating an abstract-namespace AFUNIX listening socket, performing a shutdown operation on this socket, and then performing a series of connect operations to this socket...
openSUSE Security Update : MozillaFirefox (MozillaFirefox-1597)
The Mozilla Firefox 3.5.5 release fixes some instability issues caused by the 3.5.4 security upgrade. One crash was assigned a CVE number: CVE-2009-3978: The nsGIFDecoder2::GifWrite function in decoders/gif/nsGIFDecoder2.cpp in libpr0n in Mozilla Firefox before 3.5.5 allows remote attackers to...
Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: kernel security and bug fix update
Updated kernel packages that fix multiple security issues and various bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.3 Extended Update Support. This update has been rated as having important security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team. The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel...
Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: kernel-rt security, bug fix, and enhancement update
Updated kernel-rt packages that fix several security issues, multiple bugs, and add enhancements are now available for Red Hat Enterprise MRG 1.1. This update has been rated as having important security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team. The kernel-rt packages contain the Linux kernel,...
kernel: AF_UNIX: Fix deadlock on connecting to shutdown socket
net/unix/afunix.c in the Linux kernel 2.6.31.4 and earlier allows local users to cause a denial of service system hang by creating an abstract-namespace AFUNIX listening socket, performing a shutdown operation on this socket, and then performing a series of connect operations to this socket...
kernel security update
CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-2009:1522 Updated kernel packages that fix multiple security issues and several bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4. This update has been rated as having moderate security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team. Updated 21st July 20...
SuSE 10 Security Update : multipath-tools (ZYPP Patch Number 6083)
Default permissions on the multipathd socket file were to generous and allowed any user to connect. CVE-2009-0115 This update also contains the following fixes : - Error checking in VECTORXXX defines. bnc469269 - Correct definition of dbgmalloc - Double free on path release - Use noflush for...
RHEL 4 : kernel (RHSA-2009:1438)
Updated kernel packages that fix several security issues and several bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4. This update has been rated as having important security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team. The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux...
CVE-2009-2857
The kernel in Sun Solaris 8, 9, and 10, and OpenSolaris before snv103, does not properly handle interaction between the filesystem and virtual-memory implementations, which allows local users to cause a denial of service deadlock and system halt via vectors involving mmap and write operations on...
CVE-2009-2857
The kernel in Sun Solaris 8, 9, and 10, and OpenSolaris before snv103, does not properly handle interaction between the filesystem and virtual-memory implementations, which allows local users to cause a denial of service deadlock and system halt via vectors involving mmap and write operations on...
CVE-2009-2857
CVE-2009-2857 affects Sun Solaris 8–10 and OpenSolaris prior to snv_103. The kernel mishandles the interaction between the filesystem and virtual-memory subsystems, allowing local users to trigger a deadlock and system halt by performing mmap and write operations on the same file. Impact is a loc...
kernel: do_coredump() vs ptrace_start() deadlock
The ptracestart function in kernel/ptrace.c in the Linux kernel 2.6.18 does not properly handle simultaneous execution of the docoredump function, which allows local users to cause a denial of service deadlock via vectors involving the ptrace system call and a coredumping thread...
bind security update
CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-2009:1180 Updated bind packages that fix a security issue and a bug are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4. This update has been rated as having important security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team. The Berkeley Internet Name Domain BI...