autofs security, bug fix and enhancement update

5.0.7-54.0.1 - add autofs-5.0.5-lookup-mounts.patch Orabug:12658280 Bert Barbe 1:5.0.7-54 - bz1263508 - Heavy program map usage can lead to a hang - fix out of order call in program map lookup. - Resolves: rhbz1263508 1:5.0.7-53 - bz1238573 - RFE: autofs MAPHASHTABLESIZE description - update...

A Different Spin on the Air War Against IS

Sunday evening 60 Minutes aired a segment titled Inside the Air War. The correspondent was David Martin, whose biography includes the fact that he served as a naval officer during the Vietnam War. The piece concluded with the following exchange and commentary: On the day we watched the B-1 strike...

F5 Networks BIG-IP : Linux kernel vulnerability (SOL16122)

arch/x86/kernel/entry64.S in the Linux kernel before 3.17.5 does not properly handle faults associated with the Stack Segment SS segment register, which allows local users to gain privileges by triggering an IRET instruction that leads to access to a GS Base address from the wrong space. C Tenabl...

FreeBSD -- Local privilege escalation in IRET handler

Problem Description: If the kernel-mode IRET instruction generates an SS or NP exception, but the exception handler does not properly ensure that the right GS register base for kernel is reloaded, the userland GS segment may be used in the context of the kernel exception handler. Impact: By causi...

autofs security and bug fix update

5.0.5-113.0.1 - add autofs-5.0.5-lookup-mounts.patch Orabug:12658280 Bert Barbe use tcp instead of udp 5.0.5-113 - bz1201195 - autofs: MAPFMTDEFAULT is not macro in lookupprogram.c - fix macro usage in lookupprogram.c. - Resolves: rhbz1201195 5.0.5-112 - bz1124083 - Autofs stopped mounting...

DEBIAN-CVE-2015-1872

The ffmjpegdecodesof function in libavcodec/mjpegdec.c in FFmpeg before 2.5.4 does not validate the number of components in a JPEG-LS Start Of Frame segment, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service out-of-bounds array access or possibly have unspecified other impact via crafted...

SUSE SLES11 Security Update : Xen (SUSE-SU-2015:0745-1)

The Virtualization service XEN was updated to fix various bugs and security issues. The following security issues have been fixed : CVE-2015-2756: XSA-126: Unmediated PCI command register access in qemu could have lead to denial of service attacks against the host, if PCI cards are passed through...

Lychee 2.7.1 remote code execution

Advisory ID: SGMA15-002 Title: Lychee remote code execution Product: Lychee Version: 2.7.1 and probably prior Vendor: lychee.electerious.com Vulnerability type: Remote Code Execution Risk level: High Credit: Filippo Cavallarin - segment.technology CVE: N/A Vendor notification: 2015-04-12 Vendor...

DokuWiki persistent Cross Site Scripting

Advisory ID: SGMA15-001 Title: DokuWiki persistent Cross Site Scripting Product: DokuWiki Version: 2014-09-29c and probably prior Vendor: www.dokuwiki.org Vulnerability type: Persistent XSS Risk level: Medium Credit: Filippo Cavallarin - segment.technology CVE: N/A Vendor notification: 2015-03-18...

Best Practices for Microsoft Data Deduplication

Purpose This article documents Best Practices, Limitations, and Considerations relating to the use of storage that has Microsoft Windows Deduplication enabled when storing backup files created and managed by Veeam Backup & Replication. Considerations and Recommendations CRITICAL Veeam strongly...

jasper: incorrect component number check in COC, RGN and QCC marker segment decoders (oCERT-2014-009)

Multiple off-by-one flaws, leading to heap-based buffer overflows, were found in the way JasPer decoded JPEG 2000 files. A specially crafted file could cause an application using JasPer to crash or, possibly, execute arbitrary code...

DEBIAN-CVE-2015-2151

The x86 emulator in Xen 3.2.x through 4.5.x does not properly ignore segment overrides for instructions with register operands, which allows local guest users to obtain sensitive information, cause a denial of service memory corruption, or possibly execute arbitrary code via unspecified vectors...

UBUNTU-CVE-2015-2151

The x86 emulator in Xen 3.2.x through 4.5.x does not properly ignore segment overrides for instructions with register operands, which allows local guest users to obtain sensitive information, cause a denial of service memory corruption, or possibly execute arbitrary code via unspecified vectors...

CVE-2015-2151

The x86 emulator in Xen 3.2.x through 4.5.x does not properly ignore segment overrides for instructions with register operands, which allows local guest users to obtain sensitive information, cause a denial of service memory corruption, or possibly execute arbitrary code via unspecified vectors...

CVE-2015-2151: Undefined Security Weakness

The x86 emulator in Xen 3.2.x through 4.5.x does not properly ignore segment overrides for instructions with register operands, which allows local guest users to obtain sensitive information, cause a denial of service memory corruption, or possibly execute arbitrary code via unspecified vectors...

Linux Kernel IRET Instruction #SS Fault Handling - Crash PoC

Exploit for linux platform in category dos / poc / ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- cve-2014-9322poc.c arch/x86/kernel/entry64.S in the Linux kernel before 3.17.5 does not properly handle faults associated with the Stack Segment ...

Linux Kernel 3.17.5 - IRET Instruction #SS Fault Handling Crash (PoC)

Linux Kernel 3.17.5 - IRET Instruction SS Fault Handling Crash PoC / ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- cve-2014-9322poc.c arch/x86/kernel/entry64.S in the Linux kernel before 3.17.5 does not properly handle faults associated with...

DEBIAN-CVE-2015-0239

The emsysenter function in arch/x86/kvm/emulate.c in the Linux kernel before 3.18.5, when the guest OS lacks SYSENTER MSR initialization, allows guest OS users to gain guest OS privileges or cause a denial of service guest OS crash by triggering use of a 16-bit code segment for emulation of a...

Updated kernel-linus packages fix security vulnerabilities

This kernel-linus update is based on upstream -longterm 3.14.32 and fixes the following security issues: The microcode on AMD 16h 00h through 0Fh processors does not properly handle the interaction between locked instructions and write-combined memory types, which allows local users to cause a...

USN-2491-1: Linux kernel (EC2) vulnerabilities

Andy Lutomirski discovered that the Linux kernel does not properly handle faults associated with the Stack Segment SS register in the x86 architecture. A local attacker could exploit this flaw to gain administrative privileges. CVE-2014-9322 Lars Bull reported a race condition in the PIT...