WMMon 1.0 b2 - Memory Character File Open File Descriptor Read

source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/5718/info It has been reported that wmmon is vulnerable to a leakage of open file descriptors that may result in unauthorized disclosure of kernel memory. It is allegedly possible for attackers to inherit the open file descriptors for /dev/mem and /dev/km...

Microsoft Security Bulletin MS01-009

The following is a Security Bulletin from the Microsoft Product Security Notification Service. Please do not reply to this message, as it was sent from an unattended mailbox. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Title: Patch...

FreeBSD_DoS.txt

Resending once, since it's been 10.5 days... Here's an interesting denial-of-service attack against FreeBSD =3.0 systems. It abuses a flaw in the new' FreeBSD vfscache.c; it has no way to purge entries unless the vnode' e.g. the file they point to is removed from memory -- which generally doesn't...

Linux Kernel 2.0 - TCP Port Denial of Service

/ source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/343/info It is possible to leak kernel memory and render TCP ports above 1024 unusable, locked forever in the CLOSEWAIT state in linux kernels prior to the late 2.1.x and 2.2.0pre releases. In addition to being intentionally exploited, unix applications...

PT-2010-5664 · Linux +2 · Linux Kernel +2

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: SUSE Linux Enterprise affected versions not specified Linux kernel versions prior to 2.6.36.2 Description: The issue involves multiple vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel and SUSE Linux Enterprise packages, including kernel-desktop-devel,...