Local-Privilege Escalation Flaw in Linux Kernel Allows Root Access

A local-privilege escalation vulnerability in the Linux kernel affects all current versions of Red Hat Enterprise Linux and CentOS, even in their default/minimal installations. It would allow an attacker to obtain full administrator privileges over the targeted system, and from there potentially...

CVE-2017-18344

The timercreate syscall implementation in kernel/time/posix-timers.c in the Linux kernel doesn't properly validate the sigevent-sigevnotify field, which leads to out-of-bounds access in the showtimer function. Mitigation Attached to this bugzilla is a systemtap script that will prevent opening an...

CentOS 6 : java-1.7.0-openjdk (CESA-2012:1009)

Updated java-1.7.0-openjdk packages that fix several security issues and one bug are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having important security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base scores, which give detaile...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: java-1.7.0-openjdk security and bug fix update

Updated java-1.7.0-openjdk packages that fix several security issues and one bug are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having important security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base scores, which give detaile...