UBUNTU-CVE-2025-40281

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: sctp: prevent possible shift-out-of-bounds in sctptransportupdaterto syzbot reported a possible shift-out-of-bounds 1 Blamed commit added rtoalphamax and rtobetamax set to 1000. It is unclear if some sctp users are setting very...

Linux: Read sysctl config files (KB)

sysctl.conf is a simple file containing sysctl values to be read in and set by sysctl. Files to consider: /etc/sysctl.conf, /etc/sysctl.d/. Note: This script only stores information for other Policy Controls. Copyright C 2020 Greenbone Networks GmbH Some text descriptions might be excerpted from ...

openSUSE Security Update : lynis (openSUSE-2017-705)

This update for lynis fixes the following issues : Lynis 2.5.1 : - Improved detection of SSL certificate files - Minor changes to improve logging and results - Firewall tests: Determine if CSF is in testing mode The Update also includes changes from Lynis 2.5.0 : - CVE-2017-8108: symlink attack m...