[SECURITY] Fedora 16 Update: systemd-37-15.fc16

systemd is a system and service manager for Linux, compatible with SysV and LSB init scripts. systemd provides aggressive parallelization capabilities, uses socket and D-Bus activation for starting services, offers on-demand starting of daemons, keeps track of processes using Linux cgroups,...

Fedora 15 : acpid-2.0.9-4.fc15 (2011-6681)

This update fixes acpid to properly handle SysVinit - systemd upgrades. Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing...

Slackware 9.0 : quotacheck security fix in rc.M (SSA:2003-141-06)

An upgraded sysvinit package is available which fixes a problem with the use of quotacheck in /etc/rc.d/rc.M. The original version of rc.M calls quotacheck like this: echo 'Checking filesystem quotas: /sbin/quotacheck -avugM' /sbin/quotacheck -avugM The 'M' option is wrong. This causes the...

SSA-2003-141-06a REVISED quotacheck security fix in rc.M

NOTE: The original advisory quotes a section of the Slackware ChangeLog which had inadvertently reversed the options to quotacheck. The correct option to use is 'm'. A corrected advisory follows: An upgraded sysvinit package is available which fixes a problem with the use of quotacheck in...

REVISED quotacheck security fix in rc.M

NOTE: The original advisory quotes a section of the Slackware ChangeLog which had inadvertently reversed the options to quotacheck. The correct option to use is 'm'. A corrected advisory follows: An upgraded sysvinit package is available which fixes a problem with the use of quotacheck in...

quotacheck security fix in rc.M

An upgraded sysvinit package is available which fixes a problem with the use of quotacheck in /etc/rc.d/rc.M. The original version of rc.M calls quotacheck like this: echo "Checking filesystem quotas: /sbin/quotacheck -avugM" /sbin/quotacheck -avugM The 'M' option is wrong. This causes the...

CVE-1999-1329

The CVE describes a local privilege escalation caused by a buffer overflow in SysVInit on Red Hat Linux 5.1 and earlier. Affected component: SysVInit; vulnerable action: buffer overflow leading to privilege gain. Root cause: overflow in SysVInit that permits local users to escalate privileges to ...

CVE-1999-1329

Buffer overflow in SysVInit in Red Hat Linux 5.1 and earlier allows local users to gain privileges...

CVE-1999-1329: Undefined Security Weakness

Buffer overflow in SysVInit in Red Hat Linux 5.1 and earlier allows local users to gain privileges...

CVE-1999-1329

Buffer overflow in SysVInit in Red Hat Linux 5.1 and earlier allows local users to gain privileges...