Debian DSA-1800-1 : linux-2.6 - denial of service/privilege escalation/sensitive memory leak

Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Linux kernel that may lead to a denial of service, privilege escalation or a sensitive memory leak. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems : - CVE-2009-0028 Chris Evans discovered a situation in which ...

CVE-2008-1353

zabbixagentd in ZABBIX 1.4.4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service CPU and connection consumption via multiple vfs.file.cksum commands with a special device node such as /dev/urandom or /dev/zero...

CVE-2008-1353

zabbixagentd in ZABBIX 1.4.4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service CPU and connection consumption via multiple vfs.file.cksum commands with a special device node such as /dev/urandom or /dev/zero...

CVE-2008-1353

zabbixagentd in ZABBIX 1.4.4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service CPU and connection consumption via multiple vfs.file.cksum commands with a special device node such as /dev/urandom or /dev/zero...

CVE-2005-2218

The device file system devfs in FreeBSD 5.x does not properly check parameters of the node type when creating a device node, which makes hidden devices available to attackers, who can then bypass restrictions on a jailed process...

CVE-2001-1415

The CVE-2001-1415 entry concerns OpenBSD’s vi.recover utility, with OpenBSD before 3.1 vulnerable to local users removing arbitrary zero-byte files (e.g., device nodes). The issue is local, with a low attack complexity and no authentication required, yielding partial impacts to confidentiality, i...