Apple Yosemite 10.10.3 OS Security Patches

Apple on Wednesday released close to 80 security updates for OS X, including remote code execution vulnerabilities in a dozen components that were patched in Yosemite 10.10.3. The OS X update was released the same day as an extensive update in iOS 8.3 that patched three dozen code execution and...

Apple iOS setreuid and setregid call elevation of privilege vulnerability

Apple iOS is the latest operating system that runs on Apple's iPhone and iPod touch devices. A security building exists in the Apple iOS kernel setreuid and setregid, due to the Apple iOS kernel failing to properly drop privileges. A local attacker can exploit the vulnerability to elevate...

Android Futex Requeue Kernel Exploit

This Metasploit module exploits a bug in futexrequeue in the linux kernel. Any android phone with a kernel built before June 2014 should be vulnerable. This file is part of the Metasploit Framework and may be subject to redistribution and commercial restrictions. Please see the Metasploit web sit...

Linux Kernel 2.6.x - IPv6_SockGlue.c NULL Pointer Dereference Vulnerability

No description provided by source. source: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/23142/info The Linux kernel is prone to a NULL-pointer dereference vulnerability. A local attacker can exploit this issue to crash the affected application, denying service to legitimate users. The attacker may also be ab...

CVE-2014-1766

Microsoft Internet Explorer 9 through 11 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service memory corruption via a crafted web site, as demonstrated by Sebastian Apelt and Andreas Schmidt during a Pwn2Own competition at CanSecWest 2014. NOTE: the original disclosure...

Memory corruption

Microsoft Internet Explorer 9 through 11 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service memory corruption via a crafted web site, as demonstrated by Sebastian Apelt and Andreas Schmidt during a Pwn2Own competition at CanSecWest 2014. NOTE: the original disclosure...

Kernel: perf/x86: offcore_rsp valid mask for SNB/IVB

arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perfeventintel.c in the Linux kernel before 3.8.9, when the Performance Events Subsystem is enabled, specifies an incorrect bitmask, which allows local users to cause a denial of service general protection fault and system crash by attempting to set a reserved bit...

Chrome, Firefox, Java, IE10 exploited at Pwn2Own competition

During the first day of Pwn2Own competition at the CanSecWest conference in Vancouver , latest versions of all major browsers were exploited by hackers. Chrome, Firefox and Internet Explorer 10 on Windows 8 were successfully pwned by various competitors, bringing them tens of thousands of dollars...

Chrome, Firefox, Java, IE10 exploited at Pwn2Own competition

During the first day of Pwn2Own competition at the CanSecWest conference in Vancouver , latest versions of all major browsers were exploited by hackers. Chrome, Firefox and Internet Explorer 10 on Windows 8 were successfully pwned by various competitors, bringing them tens of thousands of dollars...

DEBIAN-CVE-2013-1772

The logprefix function in kernel/printk.c in the Linux kernel 3.x before 3.4.33 does not properly remove a prefix string from a syslog header, which allows local users to cause a denial of service buffer overflow and system crash by leveraging /dev/kmsg write access and triggering a...

Slackware Advisory SSA:2009-230-01 kernel

The remote host is missing an update as announced via advisory SSA:2009-230-01. OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: esoftslkssa200923001.nasl 6598 2017-07-07 09:36:44Z cfischer $ Description: Auto-generated from the corresponding slackware advisory Authors: Thomas Reinke Copyright: Copyright c 2012...

kernel: thp: __split_huge_page() mapcount != page_mapcount BUG_ON()

The Linux kernel before 3.3.1, when KVM is used, allows guest OS users to cause a denial of service host OS crash by leveraging administrative access to the guest OS, related to the pmdnoneorclearbad function and page faults for huge pages...

Unbreakable Enterprise kernel security and bug fix update

2.6.39-100.6.1 - regset: Return -EFAULT, not -EIO, on host-side memory fault H. Peter Anvin CVE-2012-1097 - regset: Prevent null pointer reference on readonly regsets H. Peter Anvin CVE-2012-1097 - cifs: fix dentry refcount leak when opening a FIFO on lookup Jeff Layton CVE-2012-1090...

Moderate: Red Hat Bug Fix Advisory: Red Hat Enterprise MRG Realtime 2.1 kernel bug fix update

Updated kernel-rt packages that fix several bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise MRG 2.1. The kernel-rt packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system. This update provides a build of the kernel-rt package for MRG 2.1, which is layered on Red Hat Enterprise Lin...

kernel: ext4: kernel panic when writing data to the last block of sparse file

Multiple off-by-one errors in the ext4 subsystem in the Linux kernel before 3.0-rc5 allow local users to cause a denial of service BUGON and system crash by accessing a sparse file in extent format with a write operation involving a block number corresponding to the largest possible 32-bit unsign...

Ubuntu 6.06 LTS : linux-source-2.6.15 vulnerabilities (USN-1111-1)

Dan Rosenberg discovered multiple flaws in the X.25 facilities parsing. If a system was using X.25, a remote attacker could exploit this to crash the system, leading to a denial of service. CVE-2010-4164 Vegard Nossum discovered that memory garbage collection was not handled correctly for active...

kernel: cifs oops when creating file with O_DIRECT set

The cifsclose function in fs/cifs/file.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.39 allows local users to cause a denial of service NULL pointer dereference and BUG or possibly have unspecified other impact by setting the ODIRECT flag during an attempt to open a file on a CIFS filesystem...

Ubuntu Update for linux vulnerabilities USN-1105-1

Ubuntu Update for Linux kernel vulnerabilities USN-1105-1 OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: gbubuntuUSN11051.nasl 7964 2017-12-01 07:32:11Z santu $ Ubuntu Update for linux vulnerabilities USN-1105-1 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2011 Greenbone Networks GmbH,...

kernel: gfs2: rename causes kernel panic

The gfs2direntfindspace function in fs/gfs2/dir.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.35 uses an incorrect size value in calculations associated with sentinel directory entries, which allows local users to cause a denial of service NULL pointer dereference and panic and possibly have unspecified other...

CentOS 4 : kernel (CESA-2010:0606)

Updated kernel packages that fix multiple security issues and one bug are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having important security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base scores, which give detailed severity...