davfs2 1.4.61.4.7 - Local Privilege Escalation

davfs2 1.4.61.4.7 - Local Privilege Escalation davfs2 1.4.6/1.4.7 local privilege escalation exploit Bug Description: davfs2 is a Linux utility which allows OS users to mount a remote webdav server as a local partition. The bug is well documented at...

davfs2 1.4.6/1.4.7 - Local Privilege Escalation

davfs2 1.4.6/1.4.7 local privilege escalation exploit Bug Description: davfs2 is a Linux utility which allows OS users to mount a remote webdav server as a local partition. The bug is well documented at http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=723034. Basically the program "mount.davfs"...

DEBIAN-CVE-2013-2852

Format string vulnerability in the b43requestfirmware function in drivers/net/wireless/b43/main.c in the Broadcom B43 wireless driver in the Linux kernel through 3.9.4 allows local users to gain privileges by leveraging root access and including format string specifiers in an fwpostfix modprobe...

CVE-2013-2852

Format string vulnerability in the b43requestfirmware function in drivers/net/wireless/b43/main.c in the Broadcom B43 wireless driver in the Linux kernel through 3.9.4 allows local users to gain privileges by leveraging root access and including format string specifiers in an fwpostfix modprobe...

Linux Kernel 3.3.5 - 'b43' Wireless Driver Privilege Escalation

source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/60410/info Linux kernel is prone to a local privilege-escalation vulnerability. Local attackers can exploit the issue to execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges or to crash the kernel, effectively denying service to legitimate users. rmmod b43...

OpenIPMI security, bug fix, and enhancement update

2.0.16-16.el5 - ipmitool: fix ipmi command retry shifts replies 863310 2.0.16-15.el5 - ipmitool: added -b, -B, -l and -T options to ipmitool man page 846596 - ipmitool: fixed man page documentation for delloem setled command 797050 2.0.16-14.el5 - ipmitool: fixed wrong permissions on ipmievd.pid...

Low: Red Hat Security Advisory: OpenIPMI security, bug fix, and enhancement update

Updated OpenIPMI packages that fix one security issue, multiple bugs, and add one enhancement are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having low security impact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which give...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : modutils (MDKSA-2000:071-2)

All 2.3.x versions of modutils since March 12 1999 contain a vulnerability that can lead to a local root compromise. The modprobe program uses popen to execute the 'echo' program argumented with user input. Because popen relies on /bin/sh to parse the command string and execute 'echo', un-escaped...

Scientific Linux Security Update : kvm on SL5.x x86_64

A flaw was found in the way QEMU-KVM handled the reloading of fs and gs segment registers when they had invalid selectors. A privileged host user with access to '/dev/kvm' could use this flaw to crash the host denial of service. CVE-2010-3698 The following procedure must be performed before this...

Scientific Linux Security Update : kvm on SL 5.4 x86_64

A flaw was found in the way QEMU-KVM handled erroneous data provided by the Linux virtio-net driver, used by guest operating systems. Due to a deficiency in the TSO TCP segment offloading implementation, a guest's virtio-net driver would transmit improper data to a certain QEMU-KVM process on the...

Scientific Linux Security Update : virt-v2v on SL6.x x86_64

virt-v2v is a tool for converting and importing virtual machines to libvirt-managed KVM Kernel-based Virtual Machine. Using virt-v2v to convert a guest that has a password-protected VNC console to a KVM guest removed that password protection from the converted guest: after conversion, a password...

Design/Logic Flaw

The doreplace function in net/bridge/netfilter/ebtables.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.39 does not ensure that a certain name field ends with a '\0' character, which allows local users to obtain potentially sensitive information from kernel stack memory by leveraging the CAPNETADMIN capability ...

CVE-2011-1080

The doreplace function in net/bridge/netfilter/ebtables.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.39 does not ensure that a certain name field ends with a '\0' character, which allows local users to obtain potentially sensitive information from kernel stack memory by leveraging the CAPNETADMIN capability ...

kexec-tools security, bug fix, and enhancement update

2.0.0-209.0.1.el6 - Make sure '--allow-missing' is effective by adding to MKDUMPRDARGS in kdump.sysconfig, kdump.sysconfig.i386, and kdump.sysconfig.x8664 12590865 11678808 2.0.0-209 - Improve debugfs mounting code, from Dave Young. Resolve bug 748748. 2.0.0-208 - Search DUP firmware directory to...

Low: Red Hat Security Advisory: virt-v2v security and bug fix update

An updated virt-v2v package that fixes one security issue and several bugs is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having low security impact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severit...

CentOS Update for systemtap CESA-2010:0894 centos5 i386

Check for the Version of systemtap OpenVAS Vulnerability Test CentOS Update for systemtap CESA-2010:0894 centos5 i386 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2011 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify ...

CVE-2011-1171

net/ipv4/netfilter/iptables.c in the IPv4 implementation in the Linux kernel before 2.6.39 does not place the expected '\0' character at the end of string data in the values of certain structure members, which allows local users to obtain potentially sensitive information from kernel memory by...

Design/Logic Flaw

net/ipv6/netfilter/ip6tables.c in the IPv6 implementation in the Linux kernel before 2.6.39 does not place the expected '\0' character at the end of string data in the values of certain structure members, which allows local users to obtain potentially sensitive information from kernel memory by...

Design/Logic Flaw

net/ipv4/netfilter/iptables.c in the IPv4 implementation in the Linux kernel before 2.6.39 does not place the expected '\0' character at the end of string data in the values of certain structure members, which allows local users to obtain potentially sensitive information from kernel memory by...

CVE-2011-1171

net/ipv4/netfilter/iptables.c in the IPv4 implementation in the Linux kernel before 2.6.39 does not place the expected '\0' character at the end of string data in the values of certain structure members, which allows local users to obtain potentially sensitive information from kernel memory by...