Moderate: Red Hat Security Advisory: kexec-tools security, bug fix, and enhancement update

An updated kexec-tools package that fixes three security issues, various bugs, and adds enhancements is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having moderate security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base scores,...

PT-2014-2147

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions kexec-tools versions 1.x before 1.102pre-154 kexec-tools versions 2.x before 2.0.0-209 Description The SSH configuration in the Red Hat mkdumprd script for kexec-tools disables the StrictHostKeyChecking option. This allows man-in-the-middle...

PT-2014-2148

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions kexec-tools versions 1.x before 1.102pre-154 kexec-tools versions 2.x before 2.0.0-209 Description The issue allows local users to obtain sensitive information by inspecting the content of vmcore files, which are created with world-readable...

PT-2014-2149

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions kexec-tools versions 1.x before 1.102pre-154 kexec-tools versions 2.x before 2.0.0-209 Description The issue allows context-dependent attackers to obtain sensitive information by inspecting the content of a vmcore file. This is because the Red...

kernel security and bug fix update

2.6.18-238.1.1.0.1.el5 - fix filpclose race Joe Jin orabug 10335998 - fix missing aiocomplete in endio Joel Becker orabug 10365195 - make xenkbd.abspointer=1 by default orabug 67188919 - xen check to see if hypervisor supports memory reservation change Chuck Anderson orabug 7556514 - net Enable...

CentOS 5 : kernel (CESA-2010:0147)

Updated kernel packages that fix multiple security issues and several bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. 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...

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

Updated kernel packages that fix multiple security issues and several bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. 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...

Important: kernel security and bug fix update

2.6.18-53.1.6.0.1.el5 - NET Add entropy support to e1000 and bnx2 John Sobecki ORA 6045759 - NET Fix msi issue with kexec/kdump Michael Chan ORA 6219364 - MM Fix allocpagesnode static nid' race made kernel crash Joe Jin ORA 6187457 - splice Fix bad unlockpage in error case Jens Axboe ORA 6263574 ...

Important: kernel security update

CVE-2007-4571 ALSA memory disclosure flaw - Tick divider bugs on x8664 - CVE-2007-5494 openOATOMICLOOKUP leaks dentry - PATCH jbd: wait for already submitted tsyncdatalist buffer to complete Possibility of in-place data destruction - LSPP: audit rule causes kernel 'out of memory' condition and...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : kernel (MDKSA-2007:047)

Some vulnerabilities were discovered and corrected in the Linux 2.6 kernel : A double free vulnerability in the squashfs module could allow a local user to cause a Denial of Service by mounting a crafted squashfs filesystem CVE-2006-5701. The zlibinflate function allows local users to cause a cra...