CentOS 5 : kernel (CESA-2013:0168)

Updated kernel packages that fix three security issues and several bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having moderate security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base scores, which give detailed severity...

RHEL 6 : kernel (RHSA-2012:1401)

Updated kernel packages that fix one security issue and several bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.2 Extended Update Support. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having important security impact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, whi...

RHEL 5 : kernel (RHSA-2010:0079)

Updated kernel packages that fix multiple security issues and several bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.2 Extended Update Support. This update has been rated as having important security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team. The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel...

RHEL 5 : kernel (RHSA-2009:1466)

Updated kernel packages that fix two security issues and several bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.3 Extended Update Support. 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...

RedHat Update for kernel RHSA-2012:1426-01

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PT-2012-4095

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 and R2 SP1 Microsoft Windows 7 Gold and SP1 Description A denial of service issue exists due to the improper handling of a specially crafted session by the Microsoft Kerberos implementation. This can cause the...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : usermode (MDKSA-2000:020)

A bug existed in the usermode package that permitted users to reboot or halt the system without having root access. This update removes those files associated with allowing users access to reboot, shutdown, halt, or poweroff the system. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The...

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

Updated kernel packages that fix two security issues and several bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having moderate security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base scores, which give detailed severity...

Scientific Linux Security Update : kernel on SL6.x i386/x86_64 (20120123)

The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system. This update fixes the following security issue : - It was found that permissions were not checked properly in the Linux kernel when handling the /proc/pid/mem writing functionality. A local, unprivileged user...

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

The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system. This update fixes the following security issues : - It was found that the receive hook in the ipipinit function in the ipip module, and in the ipgreinit function in the ipgre module, could be called before netwo...

Scientific Linux Security Update : openssl on SL5.x i386/x86_64

CVE-2009-2409 deprecate MD2 in SSL cert validation Kaminsky CVE-2009-4355 openssl significant memory leak in certain SSLv3 requests DoS It was found that the OpenSSL library did not properly re-initialize its internal state in the SSLlibraryinit function after previous calls to the...

Scientific Linux Security Update : polkit on SL6.x i386/x86_64

A race condition flaw was found in the PolicyKit pkexec utility and polkitd daemon. A local user could use this flaw to appear as a privileged user to pkexec, allowing them to execute arbitrary commands as root by running those commands with pkexec. CVE-2011-1485 The system must be rebooted for...

Scientific Linux Security Update : dbus on SL5.x i386/x86_64

It was discovered that the last dbus security update did not correctly fix the denial of service flaw in the system for sending messages between applications. A local user could use this flaw to send a message with a malformed signature to the bus, causing the bus and, consequently, any process...

Scientific Linux Security Update : openssl on SL4.x i386/x86_64 (20120201)

OpenSSL is a toolkit that implements the Secure Sockets Layer SSL v2/v3 and Transport Layer Security TLS v1 protocols, as well as a full-strength, general purpose cryptography library. An information leak flaw was found in the SSL 3.0 protocol implementation in OpenSSL. Incorrect initialization o...

Scientific Linux Security Update : kernel on SL5.x i386/x86_64 (20120612)

The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system. This update fixes the following security issues : - It was found that the Xen hypervisor implementation as shipped with Scientific Linux 5 did not properly restrict the syscall return addresses in the sysret...

Scientific Linux Security Update : kernel on SL5.x i386/x86_64

The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system. This update fixes the following security issues : - A NULL pointer dereference flaw was found in the Linux kernel's Stream Control Transmission Protocol SCTP implementation. A remote attacker could send a...

Scientific Linux Security Update : openssl on SL6.x i386/x86_64

A race condition flaw has been found in the OpenSSL TLS server extension parsing code, which could affect some multithreaded OpenSSL applications. Under certain specific conditions, it may be possible for a remote attacker to trigger this race condition and cause such an application to crash, or...

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

This update fixes the following security issues : - Missing sanity checks in the Intel i915 driver in the Linux kernel could allow a local, unprivileged user to escalate their privileges. CVE-2010-2962, Important - compatallocuserspace in the Linux kernel 32/64-bit compatibility layer...

Scientific Linux Security Update : openssl on SL5.x, SL6.x i386/x86_64 (20120424)

OpenSSL is a toolkit that implements the Secure Sockets Layer SSL v2/v3 and Transport Layer Security TLS v1 protocols, as well as a full-strength, general purpose cryptography library. Multiple numeric conversion errors, leading to a buffer overflow, were found in the way OpenSSL parsed ASN.1...

Scientific Linux Security Update : xen on SL5.x i386/x86_64

It was found that the xctrybzip2decode and xctrylzmadecode decode routines did not correctly check for a possible buffer size overflow in the decoding loop. As well, several integer overflow flaws and missing error/range checking were found that could lead to an infinite loop. A privileged guest...