Fedora 16 : lighttpd-1.4.31-1.fc16 (2012-9078)

This update fixes CVE-2011-4362 by updating to the latest release. It also fixes problems that had been reported with previous releases, such as ssl-related crashes on startup. This update fixes some minor SSL related problems, as well as a connection stall bug. This update fixes some minor SSL...

RHEL 6 : kernel (RHSA-2011:1849)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 6 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2011:1849 advisory. The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system. Security fix: Using the SGIO IOCTL to issue SCSI...

kernel: tight loop and no preemption can cause system stall

The Linux kernel before 2.6.37 does not properly implement a certain clock-update optimization, which allows local users to cause a denial of service system hang via an application that executes code in a loop...

FreeBSD Security Advisory FreeBSD-SA-05:15.tcp

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 ============================================================================= FreeBSD-SA-05:15.tcp Security Advisory The FreeBSD Project Topic: TCP connection stall denial of service Category: core Module: inet Announced: 2005-06-29 Credits: Noritoshi...

FreeBSD-SA-05:15.tcp

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 ============================================================================= FreeBSD-SA-05:15.tcp Security Advisory The FreeBSD Project Topic: TCP connection stall denial of service Category: core Module: inet Announced: 2005-06-29 Credits: Noritoshi...

TCP TIMESTAMPS Denial of Service Exploit

No description provided by source. / TCP does not adequately validate segments before updating timestamp value http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/637934 RFC-1323 TCP Extensions for High Performance 4.2.1 defines how the PAWS algorithm should drop packets with invalid timestamp options: R1 If there is...

security flaw

Desktop Communication Protocol DCOP daemon, aka dcopserver, in KDE before 3.4 allows local users to cause a denial of service dcopserver consumption by "stalling the DCOP authentication process."...

security flaw

Desktop Communication Protocol DCOP daemon, aka dcopserver, in KDE before 3.4 allows local users to cause a denial of service dcopserver consumption by "stalling the DCOP authentication process."...

KDE: Local Denial of service

Background KDE is a feature-rich graphical desktop environment for Linux and Unix-like Operating Systems. DCOP is KDE's simple IPC/RPC mechanism. Description Sebastian Krahmer discovered that it is possible to stall the dcopserver of other users. Impact An attacker could exploit this to cause a...