kernel, perf, python security update

CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-2012:1426 Updated kernel packages that fix multiple 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...

UBUNTU-CVE-2012-3400

Heap-based buffer overflow in the udfloadlogicalvol function in fs/udf/super.c in the Linux kernel before 3.4.5 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service system crash or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted UDF filesystem...

UDF truncating issue

The Universal Disk Format UDF filesystem driver in Linux kernel 2.6.17 and earlier allows local users to cause a denial of service hang and crash via certain operations involving truncated files, as demonstrated via the dd command...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : kernel (MDKSA-2006:182)

A number of vulnerabilities were discovered and corrected in the Linux 2.6 kernel : Stephane Eranian discovered an issue with permon2.0 where, under certain circumstances, the perfmonctl system call may not correctly manage the file descriptor reference count, resulting in the system possibly...