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. Security fix : - Using the SGIO IOCTL to issue SCSI requests to partitions or LVM volumes resulted in the requests being passed to the underlying block device. If a privileged user only had access to a single...

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

Security fixes : - a NULL pointer dereference flaw was found in the Linux kernel NFSv4 implementation. Several of the NFSv4 file locking functions failed to check whether a file had been opened on the server before performing locking operations on it. A local, unprivileged user on a system with a...

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

CVE-2009-1439 kernel: cifs: memory overwrite when saving nativeFileSystem field during mount CVE-2009-1633 kernel: cifs: fix potential buffer overruns when converting unicode strings sent by server CVE-2009-1389 kernel: r8169: fix crash when large packets are received These updated packages fix t...

CentOS Update for kernel CESA-2010:0936 centos4 x86_64

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2012 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",...

SuSE 10 Security Update : Linux kernel (ZYPP Patch Number 4472)

This kernel update fixes the following security problems : - It was possible for local user to become root by exploiting a bug in the IA32 system call emulation. This affects x8664 platforms with kernel 2.4.x and 2.6.x before 2.6.22.7 only. CVE-2007-4573 - An information disclosure vulnerability ...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-1389-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2012 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...

Ubuntu Update for linux-ec2 USN-1388-1

Ubuntu Update for Linux kernel vulnerabilities USN-1388-1 OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: gbubuntuUSN13881.nasl 7960 2017-12-01 06:58:16Z santu $ Ubuntu Update for linux-ec2 USN-1388-1 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2012 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net Th...

Ubuntu 10.04 LTS : linux vulnerabilities (USN-1389-1)

Paolo Bonzini discovered a flaw in Linux's handling of the SGIO ioctl command. A local user, or user in a VM could exploit this flaw to bypass restrictions and gain read/write access to all data on the affected block device. CVE-2011-4127 A flaw was found in KVM's Programmable Interval Timer PIT...

USN-1389-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Paolo Bonzini discovered a flaw in Linux's handling of the SGIO ioctl command. A local user, or user in a VM could exploit this flaw to bypass restrictions and gain read/write access to all data on the affected block device. CVE-2011-4127 A flaw was found in KVM's Programmable Interval Timer PIT...

kernel: kvm: pit timer with no irqchip crashes the system

The createpittimer function in arch/x86/kvm/i8254.c in KVM 83, and possibly other versions, does not properly handle when Programmable Interval Timer PIT interrupt requests IRQs when a virtual interrupt controller irqchip is not available, which allows local users to cause a denial of service NUL...

USN-1384-1: Linux kernel (Oneiric backport) vulnerabilities

A bug was discovered in the Linux kernel's calculation of OOM Out of memory scores, that would result in the wrong process being killed. A user could use this to kill the process with the highest OOM score, even if that process belongs to another user or the system. CVE-2011-4097 Paolo Bonzini...

Null pointer dereference

The createpittimer function in arch/x86/kvm/i8254.c in KVM 83, and possibly other versions, does not properly handle when Programmable Interval Timer PIT interrupt requests IRQs when a virtual interrupt controller irqchip is not available, which allows local users to cause a denial of service NUL...

UBUNTU-CVE-2011-4622

The createpittimer function in arch/x86/kvm/i8254.c in KVM 83, and possibly other versions, does not properly handle when Programmable Interval Timer PIT interrupt requests IRQs when a virtual interrupt controller irqchip is not available, which allows local users to cause a denial of service NUL...

kernel: kvm: pit timer with no irqchip crashes the system

The createpittimer function in arch/x86/kvm/i8254.c in KVM 83, and possibly other versions, does not properly handle when Programmable Interval Timer PIT interrupt requests IRQs when a virtual interrupt controller irqchip is not available, which allows local users to cause a denial of service NUL...

[SECURITY] [DSA 2389-1] linux-2.6 security update

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory DSA-2389-1 [email protected] http://www.debian.org/security/ Dann Frazier January 15, 2012 http://www.debian.org/security/faq -...

SA-CONTRIB-2011-058 - Support Timer - Cross Site Scripting (XSS)

The Support Timer module adds a javascript-based timer to the Support Ticketing System for tracking how long users are working on support tickets, as well as administrative reports. The module does not properly sanitize user-supplied content, resulting in multiple Cross-Site Scripting XSS...

Design/Logic Flaw

The Fibre Channel driver for QLogic adapters in IBM AIX 6.1 and 7.1 does not properly handle DMA resource limitations, which allows local users to cause a denial of service system hang via vectors that generate a large amount of DMA I/O, related to a deadlock in timer processing across CPUs...

CVE-2011-3982

The Fibre Channel driver for QLogic adapters in IBM AIX 6.1 and 7.1 does not properly handle DMA resource limitations, which allows local users to cause a denial of service system hang via vectors that generate a large amount of DMA I/O, related to a deadlock in timer processing across CPUs...

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",...

VirtualBox 4.1 Final for Linux Released

VirtualBox 4.1 Final for Linux Released VirtualBox is a general-purpose full virtualizer for x86 hardware, targeted at server, desktop and embedded use. This version is a major update. The following major new features were added: Support for cloning of VMs bug 5853, see the manual for more...