Sun Solaris 2.6/7.0/8/9 vfs_getvfssw function Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

No description provided by source. source: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/9962/info It has been reported that Sun Solaris may be prone to a local privilege escalation vulnerability that may allow an attacker to gain root access to a vulnerable system. The issue exists due to insufficient...

kernel: security and bugfix update (important)

The Linux kernel was updated to fix various bugs and security issues: - mm/page-writeback.c: do not count anon pages as dirtyable memory reclaim stalls. - mm/page-writeback.c: fix dirtybalancereserve subtraction from dirtyable memory reclaim stalls. - compatsysrecvmmsg X32 fix bnc860993...

Oracle Linux 5 : Important: / kernel (ELSA-2008-0089)

The remote Oracle Linux 5 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2008-0089 advisory. 2.6.18-53.1.6.0.1.el5 - NET Add entropy support to e1000 and bnx2 John Sobecki ORA 6045759 - NET Fix msi issue with kexec/kdump Michael Chan ORA 621936...

Scientific Linux Security Update : kernel on SL4.x i386/x86_64

CVE-2009-3889 CVE-2009-3939 kernel: megaraidsas permissions in sysfs CVE-2009-3080 kernel: gdth: Prevent negative offsets in ioctl CVE-2009-4005 kernel: isdn: hfcusb: fix read buffer overflow CVE-2009-4020 kernel: hfs buffer overflow This update fixes the following security issues : - an array...

Unbreakable Enterprise kernel security and bugfix update

2.6.39-200.24.1.el5uek - Revert 'Add Oracle VM guest messaging driver' Guru Anbalagane Orabug: 14233627 2.6.39-200.23.1.el5uek - SPEC: add block/net modules to list used by installer Guru Anbalagane Orabug: 14224837 2.6.39-200.22.1.el5uek - NFSv4: include bitmap in nfsv4 get acl data Andy Adamson...

SuSE 10 Security Update : Linux kernel (ZYPP Patch Number 6810)

This update fixes a several security issues and various bugs in the SUSE Linux Enterprise 10 SP 2 kernel. The following security issues were fixed : - Two sysfs filers in the qla2xxx driver were worldwriteable, so users could change SCSI attributes of the qla2xxx driver. CVE-2009-4536:...

SuSE 10 Security Update : Linux kernel (x86_64) (ZYPP Patch Number 2096)

This kernel update fixes the following security problems : - A double userspace copy in a SCTP ioctl allows local attackers to overflow a buffer in the kernel, potentially allowing code execution and privilege escalation. 199441. CVE-2006-3745 - Local attackers were able to crash PowerPC systems...

CentOS Update for kernel CESA-2009:1455 centos5 i386

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2011 Greenbone AG 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 scriptxrefname:"URL",...

kernel: bfa driver sysfs crash

drivers/scsi/bfa/bfacore.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.35 does not initialize a certain port data structure, which allows local users to cause a denial of service system crash via read operations on an fchost statistics file...

Fedora Update for udev FEDORA-2010-17912

Check for the Version of udev OpenVAS Vulnerability Test Fedora Update for udev FEDORA-2010-17912 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2010 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms o...

[SECURITY] Fedora 13 Update: udev-153-5.fc13

The udev package contains an implementation of devfs in userspace using sysfs and netlink...

kernel: bluetooth: potential bad memory access with sysfs files

Linux kernel 2.6.18 through 2.6.33, and possibly other versions, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service memory corruption via a large number of Bluetooth sockets, related to the size of sysfs files in 1 net/bluetooth/l2cap.c, 2 net/bluetooth/rfcomm/core.c, 3...

kernel: bluetooth: potential bad memory access with sysfs files

Linux kernel 2.6.18 through 2.6.33, and possibly other versions, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service memory corruption via a large number of Bluetooth sockets, related to the size of sysfs files in 1 net/bluetooth/l2cap.c, 2 net/bluetooth/rfcomm/core.c, 3...

Memory corruption

Linux kernel 2.6.18 through 2.6.33, and possibly other versions, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service memory corruption via a large number of Bluetooth sockets, related to the size of sysfs files in 1 net/bluetooth/l2cap.c, 2 net/bluetooth/rfcomm/core.c, 3...

CVE-2010-1084

Linux kernel 2.6.18 through 2.6.33, and possibly other versions, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service memory corruption via a large number of Bluetooth sockets, related to the size of sysfs files in 1 net/bluetooth/l2cap.c, 2 net/bluetooth/rfcomm/core.c, 3...

Debian DSA-1872-1 : linux-2.6 - denial of service/privilege escalation/information leak

Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Linux kernel that may lead to denial of service, privilege escalation or a leak of sensitive memory. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems : - CVE-2009-2698 Herbert Xu discovered an issue in the way U...

DSA-1996-1 linux-2.6 - several vulnerabilities

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kernel: megaraid_sas permissions in sysfs

The pollmodeio file for the megaraidsas driver in the Linux kernel 2.6.31.6 and earlier has world-writable permissions, which allows local users to change the I/O mode of the driver by modifying this file...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: kernel security and bug fix update

Updated kernel packages that fix multiple security issues and three bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4. This update has been rated as having important security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team. The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux...

kernel: megaraid_sas permissions in sysfs

The dbglvl file for the megaraidsas driver in the Linux kernel before 2.6.27 has world-writable permissions, which allows local users to change the 1 behavior and 2 logging level of the driver by modifying this file...