Tor 0.2.5.10 - Anonymity Online (Tor 0.2.3.x is deprecated!)

Tor 0.2.5.10 is the first stable release in the 0.2.5 series. It adds several new security features, including improved denial-of-service resistance for relays, new compiler hardening options, and a system-call sandbox for hardened installations on Linux requires seccomp2. The controller protocol...

Updated wpa_supplicant and hostapd packages fix security vulnerability

A vulnerability was found in the mechanism wpacli and hostapdcli use for executing action scripts. An unsanitized string received from a remote device can be passed to a system call resulting in arbitrary command execution under the privileges of the wpacli/hostapdcli process which may be root in...

SUSE-SU-2015:0792-1 Recommended update for coreutils

This update for coreutils provides the following fixes and enhancements: cp1 could read from freed memory and could even make corrupt copies. This could happen with a very fragmented and sparse input file, on file systems supporting filemap extent scanning. bnc892862 Improve ls1 efficiency on lar...

CVE-2014-7970

The pivotroot implementation in fs/namespace.c in the Linux kernel through 3.17 does not properly interact with certain locations of a chroot directory, which allows local users to cause a denial of service mount-tree loop via . dot values in both arguments to the pivotroot system call...

Kernel: mm/shmem: denial of service

A race condition flaw was found in the way the Linux kernel's mmap2, madvise2, and fallocate2 system calls interacted with each other while operating on virtual memory file system files. A local user could use this flaw to cause a denial of service...

kernel, perf, python security update

CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-2014:1281 Updated kernel packages that fix one security issue and several bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having Moderate security impact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS...

CentOS 7 : kernel (CESA-2014:1281)

Updated kernel packages that fix one security issue and several bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having Moderate security impact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, ...

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

Updated kernel packages that fix one security issue and several bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having Moderate security impact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, ...

Scientific Linux Security Update : kernel on SL6.x i386/x86_64 (20140909)

A flaw was found in the way the Linux kernel's futex subsystem handled reference counting when requeuing futexes during futexwait. A local, unprivileged user could use this flaw to zero out the reference counter of an inode or an mm struct that backs up the memory area of the futex, which could...

RHEL 5 : kernel (RHSA-2014:1143)

Updated kernel packages that fix one security issue and several bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having Moderate security impact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, ...

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

Updated kernel packages that fix one security issue and several bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having Moderate security impact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, ...

Updated kernel-tmb package fixes security vulnerabilities

Updated kernel-tmb provides upstream 3.10.51 kernel and fixes the following security issues: Array index error in the aioreadeventsring function in fs/aio.c in the Linux kernel through 3.15.1 allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel memory via a large head value CVE-2014-020...

CVE-2014-3534

arch/s390/kernel/ptrace.c in the Linux kernel before 3.15.8 on the s390 platform does not properly restrict address-space control operations in PTRACEPOKEUSRAREA requests, which allows local users to obtain read and write access to kernel memory locations, and consequently gain privileges, via a...

CVE-2014-3534

arch/s390/kernel/ptrace.c in the Linux kernel before 3.15.8 on the s390 platform does not properly restrict address-space control operations in PTRACEPOKEUSRAREA requests, which allows local users to obtain read and write access to kernel memory locations, and consequently gain privileges, via a...

CVE-2014-5045

CVE-2014-5045 – Linux kernel mountpoint_last bug (pre-3.15.8) Affected: Linux kernel versions prior to 3.15.8.Root cause: The mountpoint_last function in fs/namei.c does not properly maintain a reference count when unmount is used in conjunction with a symlink.Impact: Local users could cause deni...

CVE-2014-5045

The mountpointlast function in fs/namei.c in the Linux kernel before 3.15.8 does not properly maintain a certain reference count during attempts to use the umount system call in conjunction with a symlink, which allows local users to cause a denial of service memory consumption or use-after-free ...

CVE-2014-3534

arch/s390/kernel/ptrace.c in the Linux kernel before 3.15.8 on the s390 platform does not properly restrict address-space control operations in PTRACEPOKEUSRAREA requests, which allows local users to obtain read and write access to kernel memory locations, and consequently gain privileges, via a...

RHEL 7 : kernel (RHSA-2014:0786)

Updated kernel packages that fix multiple security issues, several bugs, and add various enhancements are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having Important security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score...

Oracle Solaris Critical Patch Update : oct2012_SRU11_4

This Solaris system is missing necessary patches to address critical security updates : - Vulnerability in the Solaris component of Oracle Sun Products Suite subcomponent: Kernel. The supported version that is affected is 11. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows successful unauthenticated...

Oracle Linux 7 : kernel (ELSA-2014-0923)

The remote Oracle Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2014-0923 advisory. - net l2tpppp: fail when socket option level is not SOLPPPOL2TP Petr Matousek 1119465 1119466 CVE-2014-4943 Tenable has extracted the preceding...