Ubuntu 13.10 : linux vulnerabilities (USN-2117-1)

Saran Neti reported a flaw in the ipv6 UDP Fragmentation Offload UFI in the Linux kernel. A remote attacker could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service panic. CVE-2013-4563 Mathy Vanhoef discovered an error in the the way the ath9k driver was handling the BSSID masking. A remote attacker...

USN-2113-1: Linux kernel (Saucy HWE) vulnerabilities

Saran Neti reported a flaw in the ipv6 UDP Fragmentation Offload UFI in the Linux kernel. A remote attacker could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service panic. CVE-2013-4563 Mathy Vanhoef discovered an error in the the way the ath9k driver was handling the BSSID masking. A remote attacker...

Governments Need to Discuss Use of Cyber Weapons

PUNTA CANA–Attacks on critical infrastructure have been grabbing headlines for years now, long before sophisticated operations such as Stuxnet and Flame hit the scene. But we’re probably still in the early stages of the evolution of such attacks, and the use of so-called cyber weapons in these...

Kernel: net: memory corruption with UDP_CORK and UFO

The Linux kernel before 3.12, when UDP Fragmentation Offload UFO is enabled, does not properly initialize certain data structures, which allows local users to cause a denial of service memory corruption and system crash or possibly gain privileges via a crafted application that uses the UDPCORK...

FreeBSD : strongswan -- multiple DoS vulnerabilities (efa663eb-8754-11e3-9a47-00163e1ed244)

strongSwan Project reports : A DoS vulnerability triggered by crafted IKEv1 fragmentation payloads was discovered in strongSwan's IKE daemon charon. All versions since 5.0.2 are affected. A DoS vulnerability and potential authorization bypass triggered by a crafted IDDERASN1DN ID payload was...

[SPS] Simple Packet Sender

.png A Linux packet crafting tool. Supports IPv4, IPv6 including extension headers, and tunneling IPv6 over IPv4. Written in C on Linux with GUI built using GTK+ and released under GPLv3. Does not require pcap. Features: Packet crafting and sending one, multiple, or flooding IPv4 and IPv6 packets...

[IPv6 Toolkit v1.5.2] A security assessment and troubleshooting tool for the IPv6 protocols

A security assessment and troubleshooting tool for the IPv6 protocols. Changelog v1.5.2 Add support for GNU Debian/kfreebsd. The toolkit would not build on GNU Debian/kfreebsd before this release. Add support for TCP/IPv6 probes. tcp6 can now send TCP/IPv6 packets “–probe-mode” option, and read t...

Government launched 'China Operating System' (COS) to break Andoird and iOS Monopoly

China has always tried to support its homegrown tech industry and even the security concerns over U.S. secret surveillance which gives Chinese Government another reasons to trust domestic vendors.Many other countries are also in favor to develop their own technology industries to reduce their...

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS : linux-lts-raring vulnerabilities (USN-2069-1)

Hannes Frederic Sowa discovered a flaw in the Linux kernel's UDP Fragmentation Offload UFO. An unprivileged local user could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service system crash or possibly gain administrative privileges. CVE-2013-4470 Multiple integer overflow flaws were discovered in the...

USN-2073-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Hannes Frederic Sowa discovered a flaw in the Linux kernel's UDP Fragmentation Offload UFO. An unprivileged local user could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service system crash or possibly gain administrative privileges. CVE-2013-4470 Multiple integer overflow flaws were discovered in the...

USN-2066-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

A flaw was discovered in the Linux kernel's dm snapshot facility. A remote authenticated user could exploit this flaw to obtain sensitive information or modify/corrupt data. CVE-2013-4299 Hannes Frederic Sowa discovered a flaw in the Linux kernel's UDP Fragmentation Offload UFO. An unprivileged...

Cisco IOS XE Crafted MPLS IP Fragmentation Denial of Service Vulnerability

A vulnerability in the Multiprotocol Label Switching MPLS IP fragmentation function of Cisco IOS XE could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause the Cisco Packet Processor to crash. The vulnerability is due to input validation processing of the crafted MPLS IP packets. An attacker cou...

Oracle Linux 6 : unbreakable enterprise kernel (ELSA-2013-2587)

The remote Oracle Linux 6 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2013-2587 advisory. - ipoutput: do skb ufo init for peeked non ufo skb as well Jiri Pirko Orabug: 17951078 CVE-2013-4470 - ip6output: do skb ufo init for peeked non ufo sk...

Ubuntu Update for linux USN-2049-1

Check for the Version of linux OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: gbubuntuUSN20491.nasl 7958 2017-12-01 06:47:47Z santu $ Ubuntu Update for linux USN-2049-1 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright C 2013 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This program is free software; yo...

Oracle Linux 5 / 6 : unbreakable enterprise kernel (ELSA-2013-2588)

The remote Oracle Linux 5 / 6 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2013-2588 advisory. - ip6output: do skb ufo init for peeked non ufo skb as well Jiri Pirko Orabug: 17951806 CVE-2013-4470 - ipoutput: do skb ufo init for peeked non uf...

Oracle Linux 6 : kernel (ELSA-2013-1801)

The remote Oracle Linux 6 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2013-1801 advisory. - x86 kvm: fix cross page vapicaddr access Paolo Bonzini 1032214 1032215 CVE-2013-6368 - x86 kvm: fix division by zero in apicgettmcct Paolo Bonzini...

Kernel: net: memory corruption with UDP_CORK and UFO

The Linux kernel before 3.12, when UDP Fragmentation Offload UFO is enabled, does not properly initialize certain data structures, which allows local users to cause a denial of service memory corruption and system crash or possibly gain privileges via a crafted application that uses the UDPCORK...

Amazon Linux AMI : kernel (ALAS-2013-252)

The Linux kernel before 3.12, when UDP Fragmentation Offload UFO is enabled, does not properly initialize certain data structures, which allows local users to cause a denial of service memory corruption and system crash or possibly gain privileges via a crafted application that uses the UDPCORK...

Ubuntu 13.10 : linux vulnerabilities (USN-2049-1)

Miroslav Vadkerti discovered a flaw in how the permissions for network sysctls are handled in the Linux kernel. An unprivileged local user could exploit this flaw to have privileged access to files in /proc/sys/net/. CVE-2013-4270 A flaw was discovered in the Linux kernel's dm snapshot facility. ...

USN-2050-1: Linux kernel (OMAP4) vulnerabilities

An information leak was discovered in the handling of ICMPv6 Router Advertisement RA messages in the Linux kernel's IPv6 network stack. A remote attacker could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service excessive retries and address-generation outage, and consequently obtain sensitive...