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...

CVE-2007-1523

Technical details for CVE-2007-1523 are not publicly available in the provided documents. Monitor for updates as information remains vague and no concrete impact, affected products, or mitigations are disclosed.

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: kernel security and bug fix update

Updated kernel packages that fix security issues and bugs in the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 kernel are now available. This update 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 system. These n...

CVE-2007-0430

The sharedregionmapfilenp function in Apple Mac OS X 10.4.8 and earlier kernel allows local users to cause a denial of service memory corruption via a large mappingCount value...

Debian DSA-1111-2 : kernel-source-2.6.8 - race condition

It was discovered that a race condition in the process filesystem can lead to privilege escalation. The following matrix explains which kernel version for which architecture fixes the problem mentioned above : Debian 3.1 sarge Source 2.6.8-16sarge4 Alpha architecture 2.6.8-16sarge4 AMD64...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: kernel security update

Updated kernel packages that fix a number of security issues as well as other bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1 64 bit architectures. This security advisory has been rated as having important security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team. The Linux kernel handles the...

Ubuntu 4.10 / 5.04 : linux-source-2.6.10, linux-source-2.6.8.1 vulnerabilities (USN-137-1)

Alexander Nyberg discovered that ptrace insufficiently validated addresses on the amd64 platform so that it was possible to set an invalid segment base. A local attacker could exploit this to crash the kernel. This does not affect the i386 and powerpc platforms in any way. CAN-2005-0756 Chris...

CVE-2005-3276

The sysgetthreadarea function in process.c in Linux 2.6 before 2.6.12.4 and 2.6.13 does not clear a data structure before copying it to userspace, which might allow a user process to obtain sensitive information...

Slackware 9.1 / current : kernel security updates (SSA:2004-119-01)

New kernel packages are available for Slackware 9.1 and -current to fix security issues. Also available are new kernel modules packages including alsa-driver, and a new version of the hotplug package for Slackware 9.1 containing some fixes for using 2.4.26 and 2.6.x kernel modules. The most serio...

Slackware 9.1 / current : Kernel security update (SSA:2004-049-01)

New kernels are available for Slackware 9.1 and -current to fix a bounds-checking problem in the kernel's mremap call which could be used by a local attacker to gain root privileges. Please note that this is not the same issue as CAN-2003-0985 which was fixed in early January. The kernels in...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: kernel security update

Updated kernel packages are now available as part of ongoing support and maintenance of Red Hat Enterprise Linux version 2.1. This is the seventh regular update. This security advisory has been rated as having important security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team. The Linux kernel handl...

CVE-2005-0637

The copy functions in locore.s such as copyout in OpenBSD 3.5 and 3.6, and possibly other BSD based operating systems, may allow attackers to exceed certain address boundaries and modify kernel memory...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: kernel security update

Updated kernel packages that fix several security issues 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 Linux kernel handles the basic functions of the operating system. This advisory...

[SA14295] Linux Kernel Multiple Vulnerabilities

TITLE: Linux Kernel Multiple Vulnerabilities SECUNIA ADVISORY ID: SA14295 VERIFY ADVISORY: http://secunia.com/advisories/14295/ CRITICAL: Moderately critical IMPACT: Unknown, Security Bypass, Exposure of sensitive information, DoS WHERE: From remote OPERATING SYSTEM: Linux Kernel 2.6.x...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: kernel security update

Updated kernel packages that fix several security issues in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1 are now available. The Linux kernel handles the basic functions of the operating system. This advisory includes fixes for the following security issues: iSEC Security Research discovered a VMA handling flaw i...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: kernel security update

Updated kernel packages that fix several security issues in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1 are now available. The Linux kernel handles the basic functions of the operating system. This advisory includes fixes for the following security issues: iSEC Security Research discovered a VMA handling flaw i...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: kernel security update

Updated kernel packages that fix several security issues in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 are now available. The Linux kernel handles the basic functions of the operating system. This advisory includes fixes for several security issues: Petr Vandrovec discovered a flaw in the 32bit emulation code...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: kernel security update

Updated kernel packages that fix several security issues in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 are now available. The Linux kernel handles the basic functions of the operating system. This update includes fixes for several security issues: A missing serialization flaw in unixdgramrecvmsg was discovered...

Fedora Core 3 : kernel-2.6.9-1.681_FC3 (2004-451)

This update brings an updated -ac patch which which adds several security fixes, and various other fixes that have occurred since the release of Fedora Core 3. Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has...

Linux Kernel (<= 2.4.27 2.6.8) binfmt_elf Executable File Read Exploit

No description provided by source. / binfmtelf executable file read vulnerability gcc -O3 -fomit-frame-pointer elfdump.c -o elfdump Copyright c 2004 iSEC Security Research. All Rights Reserved. THIS PROGRAM IS FOR EDUCATIONAL PURPOSES ONLY IT IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY. COPYING,...