CVE-2006-6054: Undefined Security Weakness

The ext2 file system code in Linux kernel 2.6.x allows local users to cause a denial of service crash via an ext2 stream with malformed data structures that triggers an error in the ext2checkpage due to a length that is smaller than the minimum...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : kernel (MDKSA-2006:086)

A number of vulnerabilities were discovered and corrected in the Linux 2.6 kernel : Prior to Linux kernel 2.6.16.5, the kernel does not properly handle uncanonical return addresses on Intel EM64T CPUs which causes the kernel exception handler to run on the user stack with the wrong GS...

kernel security update

CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-2006:0191-01 Updated kernel packages that fix a number of security issues as well as other bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1 32 bit architectures This security advisory has been rated as having important security impact by the Red Hat...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: kernel security update

Updated kernel packages that fix a number of security issues as well as other bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1 32 bit architectures This security advisory has been rated as having important security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team. The Linux kernel handles the...

Ubuntu 4.10 : linux-source-2.6.8.1 vulnerabilities (USN-103-1)

Mathieu Lafon discovered an information leak in the ext2 file system driver. When a new directory was created, the ext2 block written to disk was not initialized, so that previous memory contents which could contain sensitive data like passwords became visible on the raw device. This is...

Ubuntu 4.10 / 5.04 : linux-source-2.6.10, linux-source-2.6.8.1 vulnerabilities (USN-178-1)

Oleg Nesterov discovered a local Denial of Service vulnerability in the timer handling. When a non group-leader thread called exec to execute a different program while an itimer was pending, the timer expiry would signal the old group leader task, which did not exist any more. This caused a kerne...

[SECURITY] [DSA 922-1] New Linux 2.6.8 packages fix several vulnerabilities

-------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory DSA 922-1 [email protected] http://www.debian.org/security/ Martin Schulze December 14th, 2005 http://www.debian.org/security/faq -...

DSA-922-1 kernel-source-2.6.8 - several

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DSA-921-1 kernel-source-2.4.27 - several

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kernel security update

CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-2005:514 Updated kernel packages are now available as part of ongoing support and maintenance of Red Hat Enterprise Linux version 4. This is the second regular update. This update has been rated as having important security impact by the Red Hat Security...

CVE-2005-2801

xattr.c in the ext2 and ext3 file system code for Linux kernel 2.6 does not properly compare the nameindex fields when sharing xattr blocks, which could prevent default ACLs from being applied...

CVE-2005-2801

xattr.c in the ext2 and ext3 file system code for Linux kernel 2.6 does not properly compare the nameindex fields when sharing xattr blocks, which could prevent default ACLs from being applied...

CVE-2005-2801

CVE-2005-2801 concerns a bug in the ext2/ext3 file system code of the Linux kernel 2.6 where sharing xattr blocks fails to consistently compare name_index fields, potentially causing default ACLs to be applied incorrectly and exposing wrong ACLs for files. Connected advisories (RHSA-2005/2006 and...

CVE-2005-2801

xattr.c in the ext2 and ext3 file system code for Linux kernel 2.6 does not properly compare the nameindex fields when sharing xattr blocks, which could prevent default ACLs from being applied...

CVE-2005-2801: Incorrect Comparison

xattr.c in the ext2 and ext3 file system code for Linux kernel 2.6 does not properly compare the nameindex fields when sharing xattr blocks, which could prevent default ACLs from being applied...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : kernel (MDKSA-2005:110)

Multiple vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel have been discovered and fixed in this update. The following CVE names have been fixed in the LE2005 kernel : Colin Percival discovered a vulnerability in Intel's Hyper-Threading technology could allow a local user to use a malicious thread to create...

SUSE-SA:2005:029: kernel

The remote host is missing the patch for the advisory SUSE-SA:2005:029 kernel. The Linux kernel is the core component of the Linux system. This update fixes various security as well as non-security problems discovered since the last round of kernel updates. The following security problems have be...

Fedora Core 2 : kernel-2.6.10-1.771_FC2 (2005-262)

Sun Mar 27 2005 Dave Jones - Catch up with all recent security issues. - CVE-2005-0210 : dst leak - CVE-2005-0384 : ppp dos - CVE-2005-0531 : Sign handling issues. - CVE-2005-0400 : EXT2 information leak. - CVE-2005-0449 : Remote oops. - CVE-2005-0736 : Epoll overflow - CVE-2005-0749 : ELF loader...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: kernel security update

Updated kernel packages that fix several security issues 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. Updated 9 August 2005 The advisory text has been updated to show that this update fixed...

Information leak in the Linux kernel ext2 implementation

Description: Information leak in the Linux kernel ext2 implementation References: CAN-2005-0400 Authors: Mathieu Lafon [email protected] Romain Francoise [email protected] Arkoon Security Team Advisory - March 25, 2005 http://arkoon.net/advisories/ext2-make-empty-leak.txt Revision: 1.0 1...