Unbreakable Enterprise kernel security update

4.1.12-124.19.6 - exec: Limit arg stack to at most 75% of STKLIM Kees Cook Orabug: 28709994 CVE-2018-14634...

kernel: unlimiting the stack disables ASLR

A weakness was found in the Linux ASLR implementation. Any user able to running 32-bit applications in a x86 machine can disable ASLR by setting the RLIMITSTACK resource to unlimited...

BSA-2017-360

Security Advisory ID : BSA-2017-360 Component : Linux Kernel Revision : 2.0: Interim The offset2lib patch as used by the Linux Kernel contains a vulnerability, if RLIMITSTACK is set to RLIMITINFINITY and 1 Gigabyte of memory is allocated the maximum under the 1/4 restriction then the stack will b...

USN-3377-2 linux-hwe vulnerabilities

USN-3377-1 fixed vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel for Ubuntu 17.04. This update provides the corresponding updates for the Linux Hardware Enablement HWE kernel from Ubuntu 17.04 for Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. Fan Wu and Shixiong Zhao discovered a race condition between inotify events and vfs rename...

UBUNTU-CVE-2017-1000371

The offset2lib patch as used by the Linux Kernel contains a vulnerability, if RLIMITSTACK is set to RLIMINFINITY and 1 Gigabyte of memory is allocated the maximum under the 1/4 restriction then the stack will be grown down to 0x80000000, and as the PIE binary is mapped above 0x80000000 the minimu...

Linux ASLR Disablement Vulnerability

Linux ASLR address space layout randomization is a set of mechanisms for controlling memory address randomization in Linux systems. A security vulnerability exists in the Linux ASLR implementation. An attacker can exploit this vulnerability by setting the RLIMITSTACK resource to 'unlimited' to...

V8 Memory Corruption and Stack Overflow (fixed in Node v0.8.28 and v0.10.30)

V8 Memory Corruption and Stack Overflow fixed in Node v0.8.28 and v0.10.30 A memory corruption vulnerability, which results in a denial-of-service, was identified in the versions of V8 that ship with Node.js 0.8 and 0.10. In certain circumstances, a particularly deep recursive workload that may...

Linux Kernel 2.6.37 - setup_arg_pages() Denial of Service

Linux Kernel 2.6.37 - setupargpages Denial of Service // source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/44301/info / known for over a year, fixed in grsec bug is due to a bad limit on the max size of the stack for 32bit apps on a 64bit OS. Instead of them being limited to 1/4th of a 32bit address spac...