RHEL 6 : kernel (RHSA-2011:1465)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 6 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2011:1465 advisory. - kernel: tpm: infoleak CVE-2011-1162 - kernel: corrupted GUID partition tables can cause kernel oops CVE-2011-1577 - kernel: taskstats io...

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

Updated kernel packages that fix multiple security issues and various bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. 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...

kernel security and bug fix update

2.6.32-131.21.1.el6 - net ipv6/udp: fix the wrong headroom check Thomas Graf 753167 698170 2.6.32-131.20.1.el6 - net vlan: fix panic when handling priority tagged frames Andy Gospodarek 742849 714936 CVE-2011-3593 - netdrv igb: fix WOL on second port of i350 device Frantisek Hrbata 743807 718293 ...

PT-2013-1401 · Linux +1 · Linux Kernel +1

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Linux kernel versions prior to 3.1 Description: The issue is related to an untrusted search path vulnerability in the perf config function. This vulnerability allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files by using a crafted config file in t...

USN-1253-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Ryan Sweat discovered that the kernel incorrectly handled certain VLAN packets. On some systems, a remote attacker could send specially crafted traffic to crash the system, leading to a denial of service. CVE-2011-1576 Vasiliy Kulikov and Dan Rosenberg discovered that ecryptfs did not correctly...

Ubuntu Update for linux-ec2 USN-1239-1

Ubuntu Update for Linux kernel vulnerabilities USN-1239-1 OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: gbubuntuUSN12391.nasl 7964 2017-12-01 07:32:11Z santu $ Ubuntu Update for linux-ec2 USN-1239-1 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2011 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net Th...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-1240-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2011 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...

Ubuntu Update for linux-ti-omap4 USN-1244-1

Ubuntu Update for Linux kernel vulnerabilities USN-1244-1 OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: gbubuntuUSN12441.nasl 7964 2017-12-01 07:32:11Z santu $ Ubuntu Update for linux-ti-omap4 USN-1244-1 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2011 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.n...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-1245-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2011 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...

USN-1244-1 : linux-ti-omap4 vulnerabilities

Dan Rosenberg discovered that the Linux kernel X.25 implementation incorrectly parsed facilities. A remote attacker could exploit this to crash the kernel, leading to a denial of service. CVE-2010-3873 Andrea Righi discovered a race condition in the KSM memory merging support. If KSM was being...

Ubuntu 10.04 LTS : linux-ec2 vulnerabilities (USN-1239-1)

Ryan Sweat discovered that the kernel incorrectly handled certain VLAN packets. On some systems, a remote attacker could send specially crafted traffic to crash the system, leading to a denial of service. CVE-2011-1576 Vasiliy Kulikov and Dan Rosenberg discovered that ecryptfs did not correctly...

USN-1245-1: Linux kernel (Marvell DOVE) vulnerabilities

Ryan Sweat discovered that the kernel incorrectly handled certain VLAN packets. On some systems, a remote attacker could send specially crafted traffic to crash the system, leading to a denial of service. CVE-2011-1576 Vasiliy Kulikov and Dan Rosenberg discovered that ecryptfs did not correctly...

USN-1244-1: Linux kernel (OMAP4) vulnerabilities

Dan Rosenberg discovered that the Linux kernel X.25 implementation incorrectly parsed facilities. A remote attacker could exploit this to crash the kernel, leading to a denial of service. CVE-2010-3873 Andrea Righi discovered a race condition in the KSM memory merging support. If KSM was being...

USN-1242-1: Linux kernel (Maverick backport) vulnerabilities

It was discovered that the security fix for CVE-2010-4250 introduced a regression. A remote attacker could exploit this to crash the system, leading to a denial of service. CVE-2011-1479 Vasiliy Kulikov discovered that taskstats did not enforce access restrictions. A local attacker could exploit...

USN-1239-1: Linux kernel (EC2) vulnerabilities

Ryan Sweat discovered that the kernel incorrectly handled certain VLAN packets. On some systems, a remote attacker could send specially crafted traffic to crash the system, leading to a denial of service. CVE-2011-1576 Vasiliy Kulikov and Dan Rosenberg discovered that ecryptfs did not correctly...

RHEL 6 : kernel (RHSA-2011:1350)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 6 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2011:1350 advisory. The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system. This update fixes the following security issues: Flaws...

CVE-2011-2905

Untrusted search path vulnerability in the perfconfig function in tools/perf/util/config.c in perf, as distributed in the Linux kernel before 3.1, allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a crafted config file in the current working directory...

kernel: perf, x86: fix Intel fixed counters base initialization

The x86assignhwevent function in arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perfevent.c in the Performance Events subsystem in the Linux kernel before 2.6.39 does not properly calculate counter values, which allows local users to cause a denial of service panic via the perf program...

kernel: perf: Fix software event overflow

The Performance Events subsystem in the Linux kernel before 3.1 does not properly handle event overflows associated with PERFCOUNTSWCPUCLOCK events, which allows local users to cause a denial of service system hang via a crafted application...

Debian DSA-2303-2 : linux-2.6 - privilege escalation/denial of service/information leak

Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Linux kernel that may lead to a denial of service or privilege escalation. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems : - CVE-2011-1020 Kees Cook discovered an issue in the /proc filesystem that allows loc...