GNU tar Denial of Service Vulnerability

GNU Tar is a set of tools developed by the GNU Project for creating files in tar format. A security vulnerability exists in GNU Tar versions 1.30 and earlier, which stems from the program's failure to properly handle file shrinking. A local attacker can exploit this vulnerability by modifying the...

CVE-2017-17821

WTF/wtf/FastBitVector.h in WebKit, as distributed in Safari Technology Preview Release 46, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service buffer overflow or possibly have unspecified other impact because it calls the FastBitVectorWordOwner::resizeSlow function in WTF/wtf/FastBitVector.cpp f...

SQL Log Files (LDF) Not Smaller After Truncation

Challenge After Veeam Backup & Replication or Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows successfully truncates a SQL Server Database with Application-Aware Processing enabled, the SQL Log File .ldf does not become smaller. Cause This is due to the fact that the LDF file itself is a container, when...

OpenSSL 1.0.1 Memory Corruption

Exploit for multiple platform in category remote exploits Incorrect integer conversions in OpenSSL can result in memory corruption. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- CVE-2012-2110 This advisory is intended for system administrators and developers exposing...

kernel security and bug fix update

2.6.18-238.5.1.0.1.el5 - scsi fix scsi hotplug and rescan race orabug 10260172 - fix filpclose race Joe Jin orabug 10335998 - fix missing aiocomplete in endio Joel Becker orabug 10365195 - make xenkbd.abspointer=1 by default orabug 67188919 - xen check to see if hypervisor supports memory...