cifs-utils: mount.cifs file existence disclosure vulnerability

mount.cifs in cifs-utils 2.6 allows local users to determine the existence of arbitrary files or directories via the file path in the second argument, which reveals their existence in an error message...

SuSE 10 Security Update : Linux kernel (ZYPP Patch Number 8162)

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 memory corruption when mounting a hfsplus filesystem was fixed that could be used by local attackers able to mount filesystem to crash th...

CVE-2011-2493: Undefined Security Weakness

The ext4fillsuper function in fs/ext4/super.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.39 does not properly initialize a certain error-report data structure, which allows local users to cause a denial of service OOPS by attempting to mount a crafted ext4 filesystem...

RedHat Update for fuse RHSA-2011:1083-01

Check for the Version of fuse OpenVAS Vulnerability Test RedHat Update for fuse RHSA-2011:1083-01 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 terms o...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : ncpfs (MDVSA-2012:084)

Multiple vulnerabilities has been discovered and corrected in ncpfs : ncpfs 2.2.6 and earlier attempts to use 1 ncpmount to append to the /etc/mtab file and 2 ncpumount to append to the /etc/mtab.tmp file without first checking whether resource limits would interfere, which allows local users to...

Fedora Update for cifs-utils FEDORA-2012-6398

Check for the Version of cifs-utils OpenVAS Vulnerability Test Fedora Update for cifs-utils FEDORA-2012-6398 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...

kernel: ext4: ext4_ext_insert_extent() kernel oops

fs/ext4/extents.c in the Linux kernel before 3.0 does not mark a modified extent as dirty in certain cases of extent splitting, which allows local users to cause a denial of service system crash via vectors involving ext4 umount and mount operations...

kernel security, bug fix, and enhancement update

2.6.18-308.4.1.el5 - net ipv6: fix skb double free in xfrm6tunnel Jiri Benc 752305 743375 CVE-2012-1583 2.6.18-308.3.1.el5 - net be2net: cancel beworker during EEH recovery Ivan Vecera 805462 773735 - net be2net: add vlan/rx-mode/flow-control config to besetup Ivan Vecera 805462 773735 - x86...

Fedora Update for ecryptfs-utils FEDORA-2011-10671

Check for the Version of ecryptfs-utils OpenVAS Vulnerability Test Fedora Update for ecryptfs-utils FEDORA-2011-10671 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 ...

Fedora Update for cifs-utils FEDORA-2011-10028

Check for the Version of cifs-utils OpenVAS Vulnerability Test Fedora Update for cifs-utils FEDORA-2011-10028 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...

Linux Gather System and User Information

This module gathers system information. We collect installed packages, installed services, mount information, user list, user bash history and cron jobs This module requires Metasploit: https://metasploit.com/download Current source: https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework class...

[SECURITY] Fedora 16 Update: systemd-37-15.fc16

systemd is a system and service manager for Linux, compatible with SysV and LSB init scripts. systemd provides aggressive parallelization capabilities, uses socket and D-Bus activation for starting services, offers on-demand starting of daemons, keeps track of processes using Linux cgroups,...

nfs-utils security, bug fix, and enhancement update

1.0.9-60.0.1.el5 - Add support for resvport for unmonting orabug 13567018 1.0.9-60 - Updated idmapd.conf and idmapd.conf.man to reflect the static user name mapping 502707 - Fixed an umount regression introduced by bz 513094 bz 781931 1.0.9-59 - gss: turned of even more excessive syslogs bz 59309...

util-linux: mount fails to anticipate RLIMIT_FSIZE

mount in util-linux 2.19 and earlier attempts to append to the /etc/mtab.tmp file without first checking whether resource limits would interfere, which allows local users to trigger corruption of the /etc/mtab file via a process with a small RLIMITFSIZE value, a related issue to CVE-2011-1089...

util-linux: umount may fail to remove /etc/mtab~ lock file

mount in util-linux 2.19 and earlier does not remove the /etc/mtab lock file after a failed attempt to add a mount entry, which has unspecified impact and local attack vectors...

Low: Red Hat Security Advisory: util-linux security, bug fix, and enhancement update

An updated util-linux package that fixes multiple security issues, various bugs, and adds two enhancements is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having low security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base scores,...

nfs-utils: mount.nfs fails to anticipate RLIMIT_FSIZE

The nfsaddmntent function in support/nfs/nfsmntent.c in the mount.nsf tool in nfs-utils before 1.2.4 attempts to append to the /etc/mtab file without first checking whether resource limits would interfere, which allows local users to corrupt this file via a process with a small RLIMITFSIZE value,...

RHEL 5 : util-linux (RHSA-2012:0307)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 5 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2012:0307 advisory. The util-linux package contains a large variety of low-level system utilities that are necessary for a Linux system to function. Among other...

RedHat Update for glibc RHSA-2012:0126-01

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2012 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription scriptxrefname:"URL",...

glibc, nptl, nscd security update

CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-2012:0125 Updated glibc 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 moderate security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring Syste...