PT-2014-1826 · Red Hat +5 · Red Hat +5

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Linux kernel versions prior to 3.15.2 Red Hat Enterprise Linux affected versions not specified Description: The issue involves multiple integer overflows in the lzo1x decompress safe function in the LZO decompressor, which can be exploited by...

unbreakable enterprise kernel security update

2.6.39-400.215.3 - SELinux: Fix kernel BUG on empty security contexts. Stephen Smalley Orabug: 19028380 CVE-2014-1874 - floppy: don't write kernel-only members to FDRAWCMD ioctl output Matthew Daley Orabug: 19028444 CVE-2014-1738 - floppy: ignore kernel-only members in FDRAWCMD ioctl input Matthe...

Updated kernel packages fixes security vulnerabilities.

Updated kernel packages fixes security vulnerabilities. The kernel has been updated to the upstream 3.12.21 longterm kernel, and fixes the following security issues: media-device: fix infoleak in ioctl mediaenumentities CVE-2014-1739 The futexrequeue function in kernel/futex.c in the Linux kernel...

MGASA-2014-0265 Updated kernel packages fixes security vulnerabilities.

Updated kernel packages fixes security vulnerabilities. The kernel has been updated to the upstream 3.12.21 longterm kernel, and fixes the following security issues: media-device: fix infoleak in ioctl mediaenumentities CVE-2014-1739 The futexrequeue function in kernel/futex.c in the Linux kernel...

CentOS Update for kernel CESA-2014:0740 centos5

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2014 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

openSUSE Security Update : kernel (openSUSE-2012-65)

The openSUSE 12.1 kernel was updated to 3.1.9 to fix bugs and security issues. The full list of changes in 3.1.9 is available here : http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.0/ChangeLog-3.1.9 http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.0/ChangeLog-3.1.8...

openSUSE Security Update : kernel (openSUSE-SU-2010:0734-1)

This updated openSUSE 11.3 kernel fixes the following security bugs : CVE-2010-3310: local users could corrupt kernel heap memory via ROSE sockets. CVE-2010-2962: local users could write to any kernel memory location via the i915 GEM ioctl interface. Additionally the update restores the...

openSUSE Security Update : kernel (openSUSE-SU-2012:1330-1)

This kernel update to 3.4.11 fixes various bugs and security issues. The changes up to 3.4.11 contain both security and bugfixes and are not explicitly listed here. Following security issues were fixed: CVE-2012-3520: Force passing credentials, otherwise local services could be fooled to assume...

openSUSE Security Update : kernel (openSUSE-SU-2011:1222-1)

The openSUSE 11.4 kernel was updated to 2.6.37.6 fixing lots of bugs and security issues. Following security issues have been fixed: CVE-2011-1833: Added a kernel option to ensure ecryptfs is mounting only on paths belonging to the current ui, which would have allowed local attackers to potential...

openSUSE Security Update : kernel (openSUSE-SU-2013:0395-1)

The Linux kernel was updated to 3.4.33 and to fix a local root privilege escalation and various other security and non-security bugs. CVE-2013-1763: A out of bounds access in sockdiag could be used by local attackers to execute code in kernel context and so become root. CVE-2013-0160: The atime o...

openSUSE Security Update : kernel (openSUSE-SU-2011:0861-1)

The openSUSE 11.3 kernel was updated to 2.6.34.10 to fix various bugs and security issues. Following security issues have been fixed: CVE-2011-2495: The /proc/PID/io interface could be used by local attackers to gain information on other processes like number of password characters typed or...

openSUSE Security Update : kernel (openSUSE-SU-2010:0634-1)

The openSUSE 11.3 kernel was updated to versiuon 2.6.34.7. It fixes lots of bugs and security issues. A major regression in handling some USB Input devices Mice and Keyboard introduced by the previous update was fixed. Fixed lots of bugs in the ATH5K wireless driver. Following security issues wer...

openSUSE Security Update : kernel (openSUSE-SU-2010:0655-1)

This update of the openSUSE 11.3 kernel fixes two local root exploits, various other security issues and some bugs. Following security issues are fixed by this update: CVE-2010-3301: Mismatch between 32bit and 64bit register usage in the system call entry path could be used by local attackers to...

openSUSE Security Update : kernel (openSUSE-SU-2012:0540-1)

This kernel update fixes various bugs and security issues. For bugfixes, - a lot of BTRFS bugs were fixed - a performance issue with transparent huge pages was fixed which could have caused huge slowdowns when doing I/O over e.g. USB sticks. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. Th...

openSUSE Security Update : kernel (openSUSE-SU-2011:0860-1)

The openSUSE 11.4 kernel was updated to 2.6.37.6 fixing lots of bugs and security issues. Following security issues have been fixed: CVE-2011-2495: The /proc/PID/io interface could be used by local attackers to gain information on other processes like number of password characters typed or simila...

openSUSE Security Update : Kernel (openSUSE-SU-2012:0799-1)

This kernel update of the openSUSE 12.1 kernel fixes lots of bugs and security issues. Following issues were fixed : - tcp: drop SYN+FIN messages bnc765102. - net: sock: validate datalen before allocating skb in sockallocsendpskb bnc765320, CVE-2012-2136. - fcaps: clear the same personality flags...

openSUSE Security Update : Kernel (openSUSE-SU-2010:0592-1)

This update of the openSUSE 11.3 kernel brings the kernel to version 2.6.34.4 and contains a lot of bug and security fixes CVE-2010-3110: Missing bounds checks in several ioctls of the Novell Client novfs /proc interface allowed unprivileged local users to crash the kernel or even execute code in...

openSUSE Security Update : kernel (openSUSE-SU-2013:0951-1)

The openSUSE 12.3 kernel was updated to fix a critical security issue, other security issues and several bugs. Security issues fixed: CVE-2013-2094: The perfsweventinit function in kernel/events/core.c in the Linux kernel used an incorrect integer data type, which allowed local users to gain...

openSUSE Security Update : Kernel (openSUSE-SU-2012:0812-1)

This kernel update of the openSUSE 12.1 kernel brings various bug and security fixes. Following issues were fixed : - tcp: drop SYN+FIN messages bnc765102, CVE-2012-2663. - net: sock: validate datalen before allocating skb in sockallocsendpskb bnc765320, CVE-2012-2136. - thp: avoid atomic64read i...

Latest Kali Linux 1.0.7 Offers Persistent Encrypted Partition on USB Stick

There is a good news for all Security researchers, Penetration testers and Hackers. The developers of one of the most advance open source operating system for penetration testing, 'KALI Linux' have announced yesterday the release of its latest version of Kali Linux 1.0.7 with some interesting...