policycoreutils: local privilege escalation via seunshare

A flaw was found in the way seunshare, a utility for running executables under a different security context, used the capnglock functionality of the libcap-ng library. The subsequent invocation of suid root binaries that relied on the fact that the setuid system call, among others, also sets the...

Slackware Advisory SSA:2008-042-01 kernel exploit fix

The remote host is missing an update as announced via advisory SSA:2008-042-01. OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: esoftslkssa200804201.nasl 6598 2017-07-07 09:36:44Z cfischer $ Description: Auto-generated from the corresponding slackware advisory Authors: Thomas Reinke Copyright: Copyright c 2012...

Ubuntu 10.04 LTS / 10.10 / 11.04 / 11.10 : vsftpd vulnerability (USN-1288-1)

It was discovered that the 2.6.35 and earlier Linux kernel does not properly handle a high rate of creation and cleanup of network namespaces, which makes it easier for remote attackers to cause a denial of service memory consumption in applications that require a separate namespace per connectio...

openSUSE Security Update : kernel-debug (openSUSE-SU-2011:0003-1)

This update of the openSUSE 11.2 kernel fixes various bugs and lots of security issues. Following security issues have been fixed: CVE-2010-4258: A local attacker could use a Oops kernel crash caused by other flaws to write a 0 byte to a attacker controlled address in the kernel. This could lead ...

openSUSE 10 Security Update : kernel (kernel-5751)

This kernel update fixes various bugs and also several security issues : CVE-2008-4576: Fixed a crash in SCTP INIT-ACK, on mismatch between SCTP AUTH availability. This might be exploited remotely for a denial of service crash attack. CVE-2008-3833: The genericfilesplicewrite function in...

kernel: sctp: fix potential panics in the SCTP-AUTH API

net/sctp/socket.c in the Stream Control Transmission Protocol sctp implementation in the Linux kernel before 2.6.26.4 does not verify that the SCTP-AUTH extension is enabled before proceeding with SCTP-AUTH API functions, which allows attackers to cause a denial of service NULL pointer dereferenc...

Debian DSA-403-1 : kernel-image-2.4.18-1-alpha, kernel-image-2.4.18-1-i386, kernel-source-2.4.18 - local root exploit

Recently multiple servers of the Debian project were compromised using a Debian developers account and an unknown root exploit. Forensics revealed a burneye encrypted exploit. Robert van der Meulen managed to decrypt the binary which revealed a kernel exploit. Study of the exploit by the Red Hat...

[Full-Disclosure] [SECURITY] [DSA-403-1] userland can access Linux kernel memory

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Debian Security Advisory DSA-403-1 [email protected] http://www.debian.org/security/ Wichert Akkerman December 1, 2003 -...

DSA-403 kernel-image-2.4.18-1-alpha, kernel-image-2.4.18-1-i386, kernel-source-2.4.18 - local root exploit

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PT-2011-5237 · Opensuse +4 · Systemtap-Client-Debuginfo +16

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Linux kernel versions prior to 3.6.9 openSUSE systemtap-runtime-debuginfo affected versions not specified openSUSE systemtap-sdt-devel affected versions not specified openSUSE systemtap affected versions not specified openSUSE libvmtools0...