Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: kernel security update

Updated kernel packages that fix several security issues in the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 kernel are now available. This security advisory has been rated as having important security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team. The Linux kernel handles the basic functions of the operating syste...

USN-110-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Alexander Nyberg discovered an integer overflow in the sysfswritefile function. A local attacker could exploit this to crash the kernel or possibly even execute arbitrary code with root privileges by writing to an user-writable file in /sys under certain low-memory conditions. However, there are...

Linux kernel multiple vulnerabilities

sysfswritefile integer overflow, futex functions DoS, ext3 and jfs race conditions...

CVE-2002-1618

JFS JFS3.1 and OnlineJFS in HP-UX 10.20, 11.00, and 11.04 does not properly implement the sticky bit functionality, which could allow attackers to bypass intended restrictions on filesystems...

CVE-2002-1618

The CVE-2002-1618 entry concerns HP-UX’s JFS (JFS3.1 and OnlineJFS) on HP-UX 10.20, 11.00, and 11.04, where the sticky bit functionality is not properly implemented. This could allow attackers to bypass intended filesystem restrictions. The description does not provide concrete remediation steps ...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : kernel (MDKSA-2004:029)

A vulnerability was found in the R128 DRI driver by Alan Cox. This could allow local privilege escalation. The previous fix, in MDKSA-2004:015 only partially corrected the problem; the full fix is included CVE-2004-0003. A local root vulnerability was discovered in the isofs component of the Linu...

SuSE-SA:2004:009: Linux Kernel

The remote host is missing the patch for the advisory SuSE-SA:2004:009 Linux Kernel. iDEFENSE Inc. informed us about a buffer overflow in the linux 2.4 kernel code which handles ISO9660 filesystems. The original code is not able to handle very long symlink names. The vulnerability can be triggere...

CVE-2004-0181

The JFS file system code in Linux 2.4.x has an information leak in which in-memory data is written to the device for the JFS file system, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information by reading the raw device...

CVE-2004-0181

The JFS file system code in Linux 2.4.x has an information leak in which in-memory data is written to the device for the JFS file system, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information by reading the raw device...

CVE-2004-0181

The CVE-2004-0181 issue is an information leak in the Linux 2.4.x JFS code where in-memory data could be written to the device, allowing a local user to read sensitive information from the raw device. The relevant connected advisories (RHSA-2005:663, CentOS/CESA-2005:663) document this flaw as ad...

CVE-2002-1618

JFS JFS3.1 and OnlineJFS in HP-UX 10.20, 11.00, and 11.04 does not properly implement the sticky bit functionality, which could allow attackers to bypass intended restrictions on filesystems...

Linux news 18.12.00

Ядро 2.2.19-pre2 Alan Cox в новом тестовом патче ядра 2.2.19 внес изменения в VM, предложенные Andrea Arcangeli. Подробнее: ftp://ftp.kernel.org Linus Torvalds: Linux 2.4.0-test13-pre3 Третий пререлиз 13-го тестового ядра Linux 2.4. Подробнее:...

Linux news 20.11.00

Следующий шаг ядра стабильной ветки - 2.2.18pre22 Следующий шаг на пути к 2.2.19. Подробнее: http://linuxtoday.com/newsstory.php3?ltsn=2000-11-19-009-04-NW-KN Linux 2.4.0-test11 Вышло очередное тестовое ядро... Подробнее: ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.4/ AC Kernel Patch 2.2.x 2.2.18pre...

Linux news 6.10.00

Ваш билет до Windows 2000 Примечательное начало: как бы вы ни относились к Microsoft, трудно отрицать, что Windows 2000 Professional - это на сегодня самая стабильная и мощная версия Windows. Если вы были бы рады избавиться от изъянов и ограничений Windows 95 или 98, но не собираетесь в ближайшее...