Ubuntu 10.10 : linux-mvl-dove vulnerabilities (USN-1159-1)

Brad Spengler discovered that the kernel did not correctly account for userspace memory allocations during exec calls. A local attacker could exploit this to consume all system memory, leading to a denial of service. CVE-2010-4243 Alexander Duyck discovered that the Intel Gigabit Ethernet driver...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: tomcat5 security update

Updated tomcat5 packages that fix three security issues are now available for Red Hat Certificate System 7.3. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having important security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base scores, which give detailed severity ratings, a...

CVE-2009-3879

Multiple unspecified vulnerabilities in the 1 X11 and 2 Win32GraphicsDevice subsystems in Sun Java SE 5.0 before Update 22 and 6 before Update 17, and OpenJDK, have unknown impact and attack vectors, related to failure to clone arrays that are returned by the getConfigurations function, aka Bug I...

Design/Logic Flaw

The connector layer in the Linux kernel before 2.6.31.5 does not require the CAPSYSADMIN capability for certain interaction with the 1 uvesafb, 2 pohmelfs, 3 dst, or 4 dm subsystem, which allows local users to bypass intended access restrictions and gain privileges via calls to functions in these...

Microsoft Windows kernel multiple privilege escalation

Multiple vulnerabilities in different subsystems...

FreeBSD -- arc4random(9) predictable sequence vulnerability

Problem Description: When the arc4random9 random number generator is initialized, there may be inadequate entropy to meet the needs of kernel systems which rely on arc4random9; and it may take up to 5 minutes before arc4random9 is reseeded with secure entropy from the Yarrow random number...

IPS-1 Protocol and Protocol Subsystems Configuration Changes

Seven IPS-1 protocol and protocol subsystems have undergone configuration changes...

IPS-1 Protection Updates for Vulnerabilities in Microsoft Windows and Asterisk and IPS-1 Protocol and Protocol Subsystems Updates

A buffer overflow vulnerability in Microsoft Windows allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code.The handleresponse function in Astersik allows allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service...

Linux Kernel 2.6.x - Audit Subsystems Local Denial of Service

source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/22737/info The Linux Kernel is prone to a denial-of-service vulnerability. A local attacker can exploit this issue to crash the kernel. Linux kernel versions 2.6.x are vulnerable to this issue. 1. auditctl -w /etc/shadow 2. useradd userb...

Linux Kernel 2.6.x - Audit Subsystems Local Denial of Service

Linux Kernel 2.6.x - Audit Subsystems Local Denial of Service source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/22737/info The Linux Kernel is prone to a denial-of-service vulnerability. A local attacker can exploit this issue to crash the kernel. Linux kernel versions 2.6.x are vulnerable to this issue...