Archlinux Ultimate Install Script

Install and configure archlinux has never been easier! You can try it first with a virtualbox Prerequisites A working internet connection Logged in as ‘root’ How to get it With git Increase cowspace partition: mount -o remount,size=2G /run/archiso/cowspace Get list of packages and install git:...

kernel

New Linux kernel packages are available for Slackware 13.37 and 14.0 to fix a security issue. Here are the details from the Slackware 14.0 ChangeLog: patches/packages/linux-3.2.45/: Upgraded. Upgraded to new kernels that fix CVE-2013-2094, a bug that can allow local users to gain a root shell. Be...

CVE-2008-3895

LILO 22.6.1 and earlier stores pre-boot authentication passwords in the BIOS Keyboard buffer and does not clear this buffer before and after use, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information by reading the physical memory locations associated with this buffer...

Design/Logic Flaw

LILO 22.6.1 and earlier stores pre-boot authentication passwords in the BIOS Keyboard buffer and does not clear this buffer before and after use, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information by reading the physical memory locations associated with this buffer...

CVE-2008-3895

LILO 22.6.1 and earlier stores pre-boot authentication passwords in the BIOS Keyboard buffer and does not clear this buffer before and after use, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information by reading the physical memory locations associated with this buffer...

CVE-2008-3895

LILO 22.6.1 and earlier stores pre-boot authentication passwords in the BIOS Keyboard buffer and does not clear this buffer before and after use, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information by reading the physical memory locations associated with this buffer...

CVE-2008-3895

CVE-2008-3895 affects the LILO boot loader (22.6.1 and earlier). The vulnerability arises because pre-boot authentication passwords are stored in the BIOS Keyboard buffer and this buffer is not cleared before/after use, allowing local users to read the physical memory locations and recover sensit...

[IVIZ-08-008] LILO Security Model bypass exploiting wrong BIOS API usage

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Multiple Vendor BIOS - Keyboard Buffer Password Persistence (1)

Multiple Vendor BIOS - Keyboard Buffer Password Persistence 1 source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/15751/info Multiple vendors fail to clear the BIOS Basic Input-Output System keyboard buffer after reading the preboot authentication password during the system startup process. Depending on th...

Multiple Vendor BIOS - Keyboard Buffer Password Persistence (2)

Multiple Vendor BIOS - Keyboard Buffer Password Persistence 2 // source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/15751/info Multiple vendors fail to clear the BIOS Basic Input-Output System keyboard buffer after reading the preboot authentication password during the system startup process. Depending on...

Multiple Vendor BIOS - Keyboard Buffer Password Persistence (1)

source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/15751/info Multiple vendors fail to clear the BIOS Basic Input-Output System keyboard buffer after reading the preboot authentication password during the system startup process. Depending on the operating system running on affected computers, the memory...

Multiple Vendor BIOS - Keyboard Buffer Password Persistence (2)

// source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/15751/info Multiple vendors fail to clear the BIOS Basic Input-Output System keyboard buffer after reading the preboot authentication password during the system startup process. Depending on the operating system running on affected computers, the memor...

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...

Slackware 9.0 / 9.1 / current : Kernel security update (SSA:2004-006-01)

New kernels are available for Slackware 9.0, 9.1 and -current. The 9.1 and -current kernels have been upgraded to 2.4.24, and a fix has been backported to the 2.4.21 kernels in Slackware 9.0 to fix a bounds-checking problem in the kernel's mremap call which could be used by a local attacker to ga...

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...

Linux news 13.06.00

-=FOR ALL=- Извините за столь долгое молчание. Решил устроить себе маааленький отпуск на недельку Linux 2.2.16 Вышло очередное ядро из стабильной серии. Подробнее: ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.2/ Исправления для 2.2.16 Для тех, кто испытывает проблемы с ядром 2.2.16, Alan Cox выпустил...