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

A flaw was found in the handling of process death signals. This allowed a local user to send arbitrary signals to the suid-process executed by that user. A successful exploitation of this flaw depends on the structure of the suid-program and its signal handling. CVE-2007-3848, Important - A flaw...

CentOS 4 / 5 : kernel (CESA-2008:0154)

Updated kernel packages that fix various security issues and several bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. 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 core of any Linux...

CentOS 4 : kernel (CESA-2007:0939)

Updated kernel packages that fix various security issues in the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 kernel are now available. This update has been rated as having important security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team. The Linux kernel is the core of the operating system. These updated kernel...

Solaris 5.3 (sparc) : 104075-01

Firewall-1 2.1: Unix FW-1 VPN manager module creates zombie proces. Date this patch was last updated by Sun : Oct/03/96 %NASLMINLEVEL 999999 @DEPRECATED@ This script has been deprecated as the associated patch is not currently a recommended security fix. Disabled on 2011/09/17. C Tenable Network...

RedHat Update for kernel RHSA-2008:0154-01

Check for the Version of kernel OpenVAS Vulnerability Test RedHat Update for kernel RHSA-2008:0154-01 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2009 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the ter...

Debian DSA-1638-1 : openssh - denial of service

It has been discovered that the signal handler implementing the login timeout in Debian's version of the OpenSSH server uses functions which are not async-signal-safe, leading to a denial of service vulnerability CVE-2008-4109 . The problem was originally corrected in OpenSSH 4.4p1 CVE-2006-5051 ...

RHEL 5 : kernel (RHSA-2008:0154)

Updated kernel packages that fix various security issues and several bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. 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 core of any Linux...

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

Updated kernel packages that fix various security issues and several bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. 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 core of any Linux...

kernel security update

CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-2007:0939 Updated kernel packages that fix various security issues in the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 kernel are now available. This update has been rated as having important security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team. The Linux kernel is the cor...

RHEL 4 : kernel (RHSA-2007:0939)

Updated kernel packages that fix various security issues in the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 kernel are now available. This update has been rated as having important security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team. The Linux kernel is the core of the operating system. These updated kernel...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: kernel security update

Updated kernel packages that fix various security issues in the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 kernel are now available. This update has been rated as having important security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team. The Linux kernel is the core of the operating system. These updated kernel...

Possible DoS on Linux kernel 2.4 and 2.6 using sigqueue overflow.

Hello. We faced a bug ? in Linux kernel causing different misbehaviours on our server. After exploration, it seems that we found some security implications of this issue. When a process exits, it's parent is notified by SIGCHLD, and finished child is kept in process table in "zombie" state until...