Oracle Linux 5 : kernel (ELSA-2012-0150)

The remote Oracle Linux 5 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ELSA-2012-0150 advisory. - fs jbd2: clear BHDelay & BHUnwritten in journalunmapbuffer Eric Sandeen 783284 CVE-2011-4086 - fs epoll: workarounds to preserve kernel ABI Jason Baron 681692...

kernel security, bug fix, and enhancement update

2.6.32-358.11.1 - kernel perf: fix perfsweventenabled array out-of-bound access Petr Matousek 962793 962794 CVE-2013-2094 2.6.32-358.10.1 - scsi be2iscsi : Fix the NOP-In handling code path Nikola Pajkovsky 955504 947550 - scsi be2iscsi: Fix memory leak in control path of driver Rob Evers 955504...

kernel: security and bugfix update (critical)

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...

CVE-2013-2851

CVE-2013-2851 is a concrete vulnerability in the Linux kernel: a format-string flaw in the register_disk function (block/genhd.c) that affects kernels up to 3.9.4. It enables a local attacker with root access to gain privileges by writing format specifiers to /sys/module/md_mod/parameters/new_arr...

SuSE 11.2 Security Update : Linux kernel (SAT Patch Numbers 6641 / 6643 / 6648)

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 SP2 kernel was updated to 3.0.38, fixing various bugs and security issues. The following security issues have been fixed : - Several buffer overread and overwrite errors in the UDF logical volume descriptor code have been fixed that might have have allowed local...

SuSE 11.1 Security Update : Linux kernel (SAT Patch Numbers 6227 / 6229 / 6230)

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 SP1 kernel has been updated to the 2.6.32.59 stable release to fix a lot of bugs and security issues. The following security issues have been fixed : - A use after free bug in hugetlb support could be used by local attackers to crash the system. CVE-2012-2133 - A NULL...

SuSE 11.2 Security Update : Linux kernel (SAT Patch Numbers 7123 / 7127)

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 SP2 kernel has been updated to 3.0.51 which fixes various bugs and security issues. It contains the following feature enhancements : - The cachefiles framework is now supported FATE312793, bnc782369. The userland utilities were published seperately to support this...

kernel security, bug fix and enhancement update

2.6.32-279.19.1.el6 - drm i915: dont clobber the pipe param in sanitizemodesetting Frantisek Hrbata 876549 857792 - drm i915: Sanitize BIOS debugging bits from PIPECONF Frantisek Hrbata 876549 857792 - net fix divide by zero in tcp algorithm illinois Flavio Leitner 871920 866514 CVE-2012-4565 - f...

MD Webmarketing Cross Site Scripting / SQL Injection

Exploit Title : MD-WEBMARKETING - SQL Injection/Cross Site Scripting Vulnerabilities Date : 06-11-2012 Author : Caleb Bucker Independent Security Researcher Contact : https://twitter.com/CalebDrugs Website : www.calebbucker.blogspot.com Vendor : MD Webmarketing URL Vendor :...

[SECURITY] Fedora 18 Update: dracut-024-5.git20121019.fc18

dracut contains tools to create a bootable initramfs for 2.6 Linux kernels. Unlike existing implementations, dracut does hard-code as little as possible into the initramfs. dracut contains various modules which are driven by the event-based udev. Having root on MD, DM, LVM2, LUKS is supported as...

Fedora Update for dracut FEDORA-2012-14953

Check for the Version of dracut OpenVAS Vulnerability Test Fedora Update for dracut FEDORA-2012-14953 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2012 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the ter...

[SECURITY] Fedora 16 Update: dracut-018-60.git20120927.fc16

Dracut contains tools to create a bootable initramfs for 2.6 Linux kernels. Unlike existing implementations, dracut does hard-code as little as possible into the initramfs. Dracut contains various modules which are driven by the event-based udev. Having root on MD, DM, LVM2, LUKS is supported as...

Sitecom MD-25x - Multiple Vulnerabilities

Sitecom MD-25x - Multiple Vulnerabilities !/usr/bin/python Exploit Title: Sitecom MD-253 and MD-254 Network Storage Reverse Shell Exploit Date: 09/11/12 Exploit Author: Mattijs van Ommeren mattijs at alcyon dot nl Vendor Homepage: http://www.sitecom.com Software Link:...

Sitecom Home Storage Center - Directory Traversal

Security Advisory AA-004: Directory Traversal Vulnerability in Sitecom Home Storage Center Severity Rating: High Discovery Date: July 29, 2012 Vendor Notification: July 30, 2012 Disclosure Date: September 3, 2012 Vulnerability Type= Directory Traversal Impact= - System Access - Exposure of...

Conceptronic GrabnGo and Sitecom Storage Center - Password Disclosure

Conceptronic GrabnGo and Sitecom Storage Center - Password Disclosure Updated to include Sitecom MD-253 and MD254 Minor textual changes == Conceptronic Grab’n’Go and Sitecom Storage Center - Password disclosure Vulnerability - Security Advisory AA-002 Severity Rating: High Discovery Date: May 5,...

Oracle Linux 6 kernel security, bug fix and enhancement update

2.6.32-279.el6 - netdrv mlx4: ignore old module parameters Jay Fenlason 830553 2.6.32-278.el6 - kernel sysctl: silence warning about missing strategy for file-max at boot time Jeff Layton 803431 - net sunrpc: make new tcpmaxslottableentries sysctl use CTLUNNUMBERED Jeff Layton 803431 - drm i915:...

With LinkedIn: The Bell Tolls For Simple Password Hashing

This week’s revelations about leaks of user passwords from the professional networking site LinkedIn, dating Web site eHarmony.com and music site Last.fm suggest that even tech-savvy firms are slow to accept that hashes -a once-reliable technology for storing data online – now offer scant...

kernel security and bug fix update

2.6.18-308.8.1.el5 - net sock: validate datalen before allocating skb in sockallocsendpskb Jason Wang 816290 816106 CVE-2012-2136 - net tg3: Fix VLAN tagging assignments John Feeney 817691 797011 - net ixgbe: do not stop stripping VLAN tags in promiscuous mode Andy Gospodarek 809791 804800 - s390...

SuSE 10 Security Update : Linux kernel (ZYPP Patch Number 7811)

This Linux kernel update fixes various security issues and bugs in the SUSE Linux Enterprise 10 SP4 kernel. The following security issues have been fixed : - A USB string descriptor overflow in the auerwald USB driver was fixed, which could be used by physically proximate attackers to cause a...

kernel: net: improve sequence number generation

The 1 IPv4 and 2 IPv6 implementations in the Linux kernel before 3.1 use a modified MD4 algorithm to generate sequence numbers and Fragment Identification values, which makes it easier for remote attackers to cause a denial of service disrupted networking or hijack network sessions by predicting...