[SECURITY] Fedora 13 Update: kdesdk-4.4.3-1.fc13.1

A collection of applications and tools used by developers, including: cervisia: a CVS frontend kate: advanced text editor kbugbuster: a tool to manage the KDE bug report system kcachegrind: a browser for data produced by profiling tools e.g. cachegr ind kompare: diff tool kuiviewer: displays...

[SECURITY] Fedora 11 Update: kdesdk-4.4.2-1.fc11

A collection of applications and tools used by developers, including: cervisia: a CVS frontend kate: advanced text editor kbugbuster: a tool to manage the KDE bug report system kcachegrind: a browser for data produced by profiling tools e.g. cachegr ind kompare: diff tool kuiviewer: displays...

Hackers Using Automation, Geolocation in Social Networking Attacks

MOSCOW — Attackers have been focusing a lot of attention on social networking destinations such as Facebook, Twitter and even LinkedIn for some time now, but they recently have begun shifting their tactics to make their attacks much more effective and precise through the use of geolocation and...

[SECURITY] Fedora 10 Update: kdesdk-4.3.1-1.fc10

A collection of applications and tools used by developers, including: cervisia: a CVS frontend kate: advanced text editor kbugbuster: a tool to manage the KDE bug report system kcachegrind: a browser for data produced by profiling tools e.g. cachegr ind kompare: diff tool kuiviewer: displays...

Fedora Core 9 FEDORA-2009-3430 (argyllcms)

The remote host is missing an update to argyllcms announced via advisory FEDORA-2009-3430. OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: fcore20093430.nasl 6624 2017-07-10 06:11:55Z cfischer $ Description: Auto-generated from advisory FEDORA-2009-3430 argyllcms Authors: Thomas Reinke Copyright: Copyright c 200...

[SECURITY] Fedora 7 Update: kdesdk-3.5.8-2.fc7

A collection of applications and tools used by developers, including: cervisia: a CVS frontend kbabel: PO file management kbugbuster: a tool to manage the KDE bug report system kcachegrind: a browser for data produced by profiling tools e.g. cachegr ind kompare: diff tool kuiviewer: displays...

Low: Red Hat Enhancement Advisory: oprofile enhancement update

An oprofile enhancement update that provides support for POWER5+ and uses the current event names for POWER4 and POWER5 is now available. The oprofile package contains a profiling system for systems running the Linux kernel. Profiling runs transparently in the background while profile data is...

CVE-1999-0674

CVE-1999-0674 affects the BSD profiling system call. A local user can modify the internal data space of a program via profiling and execve, with potential impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability as noted in the sources. No remediation steps or concrete exploit details are provided ...

Solaris 2.6 - Profiling File Creation

source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/659/info A vulnerability in the dynamic linkers while profiling a shared object allows local users to create arbitrary files in the system. It canno't be used to overwrite existing files. If the LDPROFILE environment variable is defined it instructs the...

Solaris 2.6 - Profiling File Creation

Solaris 2.6 - Profiling File Creation source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/659/info A vulnerability in the dynamic linkers while profiling a shared object allows local users to create arbitrary files in the system. It canno't be used to overwrite existing files. If the LDPROFILE environment...

FreeBSD-SA-99:02.profil

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- ============================================================================= FreeBSD-SA-99:02 Security Advisory FreeBSD, Inc. Topic: Profiling Across Exec Calls Category: core Module: kernel Announced: 1999-09-04 Affects: FreeBSD 3.2 and earlier FreeBSD-current...

NetBSD 1.4 / OpenBSD 2.5 / Solaris 7.0 - 'profil(2)' Modify The Internal Data Space

/ source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/570/info Some BSD's use a profil2 system call that dates back to "version 6" unix. This system call arranges for the kernel to sample the PC and increment an element of an array on every profile clock tick. The security issue stems from the fact that...