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Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.3 kernel security and bug fix update
Updated kernel packages that fix three security issues, address several hundred bugs and add numerous enhancements are now available as part of the ongoing support and maintenance of Red Hat Enterprise Linux version 5. This is the third regular update. This update has been rated as having importa...
Debian DSA-1687-1 : linux-2.6 - denial of service/privilege escalation
Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Linux kernel that may lead to a denial of service or privilege escalation. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems : - CVE-2008-3527 Tavis Ormandy reported a local DoS and potential privilege escalation...
DSA-1687-1 fai-kernels linux-2.6 user-mode-linux - several vulnerabilities
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Debian DSA-1681-1 : linux-2.6.24 - denial of service/privilege escalation
Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Linux kernel that may lead to a denial of service or privilege escalation. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems : - CVE-2008-3528 Eugene Teo reported a local DoS issue in the ext2 and ext3 filesystem...
DSA-1681-1 linux-2.6.24 - several vulnerabilities
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Linux kernel multiple security vulnerabilities
Buffer overflow on oversized ESSID in ndiswrapper. DoS with corrupter ext2 / ext3 filesystem...
Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: kernel security and bug fix update
Updated kernel packages that resolve several security issues and fix various 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...
kernel security and bug fix update
2.6.9-78.0.8.0.1.EL - fix entropy flag in bnx2 driver to generate entropy pool John Sobecki orabug 5931647 - 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 - fix percpu api bugon with...
CVE-2008-3528: Undefined Security Weakness
The error-reporting functionality in 1 fs/ext2/dir.c, 2 fs/ext3/dir.c, and possibly 3 fs/ext4/dir.c in the Linux kernel 2.6.26.5 does not limit the number of printk console messages that report directory corruption, which allows physically proximate attackers to cause a denial of service temporar...
Linux内核Ext3无效索引节点序号拒绝服务攻击漏洞
Secunia Advisory:SA21369 Linux内核被报告一个漏洞，该漏洞可被恶意用户操作进行拒绝服务攻击Denial of Service。 该漏洞是由处理一个无效索引节点序号（inode number）时ext3内的一个错误引起的。盖漏洞可被操作发送一个特殊处理的带有V2程序例如 V2LOOKUP的NFS请求使其列入无效索引节点序号。 成功操作会致使输出目录被重置为只读。 该漏洞已经在版本2.6.14.4、2.6.17.6和2.6.17.7中被证实。其他版本可能同样被影响。 Linux Kernel 2.6.x 仅同意信任用户访问受影响系统。...
[SECURITY] Fedora 7 Update: e2fsprogs-1.40.2-3.fc7
The e2fsprogs package contains a number of utilities for creating, checking, modifying, and correcting any inconsistencies in second and third extended ext2/ext3 filesystems. E2fsprogs contains e2fsck used to repair filesystem inconsistencies after an unclean shutdown, mke2fs used to initialize a...
[SECURITY] Fedora 8 Update: e2fsprogs-1.40.2-12.fc8
The e2fsprogs package contains a number of utilities for creating, checking, modifying, and correcting any inconsistencies in second and third extended ext2/ext3 filesystems. E2fsprogs contains e2fsck used to repair filesystem inconsistencies after an unclean shutdown, mke2fs used to initialize a...
SuSE 10 Security Update : Linux kernel (ZYPP Patch Number 2399)
This kernel update fixes the following security problems : - A bug within the UDF filesystem that caused machine hangs when truncating files on the filesystem was fixed. 186226. CVE-2006-4145 - A potential crash when receiving IPX packets was fixed. This problem is thought not to be exploitable...
Ubuntu 6.06 LTS / 6.10 / 7.04 / 7.10 : e2fsprogs vulnerability (USN-555-1)
Rafal Wojtczuk discovered multiple integer overflows in e2fsprogs. If a user or automated system were tricked into fscking a malicious ext2/ext3 filesystem, a remote attacker could execute arbitrary code with the user's privileges. Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding...
USN-555-1: e2fsprogs vulnerability
Rafal Wojtczuk discovered multiple integer overflows in e2fsprogs. If a user or automated system were tricked into fscking a malicious ext2/ext3 filesystem, a remote attacker could execute arbitrary code with the user's privileges...
Ubuntu 5.10 / 6.06 LTS / 6.10 : linux-source-2.6.12/2.6.15/2.6.17 vulnerabilities (USN-416-1)
Mark Dowd discovered that the netfilter iptables module did not correcly handle fragmented IPv6 packets. By sending specially crafted packets, a remote attacker could exploit this to bypass firewall rules. This has has already been fixed for Ubuntu 6.10 in USN-395-1; this is the corresponding fix...
openSUSE 10 Security Update : kernel (kernel-2397)
This kernel update fixes the following security problems : - CVE-2006-4145: A bug within the UDF filesystem that caused machine hangs when truncating files on the filesystem was fixed. 186226 - A potential crash when receiving IPX packets was fixed. This problem is thought not to be exploitable...
Important: kernel security and bug fix update
2.6.18-8.1.6.0.1.el5 -Fix bonding primary=ethX so it picks correct network Bert Barbe IT 101532 ORA 5136660 -Add entropy module option to e1000 John Sobecki ORA 6045759 -Add entropy module option to bnx2 John Sobecki ORA 6045759 2.6.18.8-1.6.el5 - bluetooth close information leaks in setsockopt...
Important: kernel security update
kernel-2.4.21-50.EL - improve IGMP join processing during bonding failover Andy Gospodarek - fix EHCI period handling for high-speed USB HID devices Pete Zaitcev kernel-2.4.21-49.EL - fix dput crash regression caused in -47.5.EL Eric Sandeen - add ifcfg-bond0 documentation in bonding.txt Andy...