Oracle Linux 5 / 6 : Unbreakable Enterprise kernel (ELSA-2011-2037)

The remote Oracle Linux 5 / 6 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2011-2037 advisory. - netdrv be2net: Merge fixes for CVE-2011-3347 Joe Jin Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Oracle Linux securit...

Design/Logic Flaw

The ptracestart function in kernel/ptrace.c in the Linux kernel 2.6.18 does not properly handle simultaneous execution of the docoredump function, which allows local users to cause a denial of service deadlock via vectors involving the ptrace system call and a coredumping thread...