glibc: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background glibc is a package that contains the GNU C library. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in glibc. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact Please review the referenced CVE identifiers for details. Workaround There is no known workarou...

KPMCore: Root privilege escalation

Background KPMcore, the KDE Partition Manager core, is a library for examining and modifying partitions, disk devices, and filesystems on a Linux system. It provides a unified programming interface over top of external system-manipulation tools. Description Improper checks on the D-Bus request...

GNU C Library: Arbitrary descriptor allocation

Background The GNU C library is the standard C library used by Gentoo Linux systems. Description A vulnerability was discovered in the GNU C Library functions xdrbytes and xdrstring. Impact A remote attacker, by sending a crafted UDP packet, could cause a Denial of Service condition. Workaround...

ncurses: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background Free software emulation of curses in System V. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in ncurses. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact A remote attacker, by enticing the user to process untrusted terminfo or other data, could execute...

GLSA-201701-56 : zlib: Multiple vulnerabilities

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-201701-56 zlib: Multiple vulnerabilities Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in zlib. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact : An attacker could cause a Denial of Service condition...

Linux-PAM: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background Linux-PAM Pluggable Authentication Modules is an architecture allowing the separation of the development of privilege granting software from the development of secure and appropriate authentication schemes. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Linux-PAM. Please...

Gentoo Security Advisory GLSA 201206-31 (pam)

The remote host is missing updates announced in advisory GLSA 201206-31. SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2012 E-Soft Inc. Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only OR GPL-3.0-only...

Gentoo Security Advisory GLSA 201011-01 (glibc)

The remote host is missing updates announced in advisory GLSA 201011-01. OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $ Description: Auto generated from Gentoo's XML based advisory Authors: Thomas Reinke Copyright: Copyright c 2011 E-Soft Inc. http://www.securityspace.com Text descriptions are largely excerpted fr...

Gentoo Security Advisory GLSA 200510-22 (PAM)

The remote host is missing updates announced in advisory GLSA 200510-22. SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2008 E-Soft Inc. Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

zlib: Buffer overflow

Background zlib is a widely used free and patent unencumbered data compression library. Description Tavis Ormandy of the Gentoo Linux Security Audit Team discovered a buffer overflow in zlib. A bounds checking operation failed to take invalid data into account, allowing a specifically malformed...