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oval:org.mitre.oval:def:8144
Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Linux kernel that may lead to a denial of service or privilege escalation. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems: Tavis Ormandy reported a local DoS and potential privilege escalation in the Virtual Dyna ... oval:org.mitre.oval:def:7980 Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Linux kernel that may lead to a denial of service or privilege escalation. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems: Eugene Teo reported a local DoS issue in the ext2 and ext3 filesystems. Local users who h ... oval:org.secpod.oval:def:500617 The Linux kernel These updated packages contain 730 bug fixes and enhancements for the Linux kernel. Space precludes a detailed description of each of these changes in this advisory and users are therefore directed to the release notes for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.3 for information on 97 of the m ... oval:org.secpod.oval:def:400099 This update fixes various security issues and several bugs in the openSUSE 11.0 kernel. The kernel was also updated to the stable version 2.6.25.20, including its bugfixes. Following security issues were fixed: CVE-2008-5702: Buffer underflow in the ibwdt_ioctl function in drivers/watchdog/ib700wdt. ... oval:org.secpod.oval:def:400061 The openSUSE 10.3 kernel was updated to fix various security problems and bugs. Following security bugs were fixed: CVE-2008-5079: net/atm/svc.c in the ATM subsystem allowed local users to cause a denial of service by making two calls to svc_listen for the same socket, and then reading a /proc/net/ ... oval:org.secpod.oval:def:700345 Hugo Dias discovered that the ATM subsystem did not correctly manage socket counts. A local attacker could exploit this to cause a system hang, leading to a denial of service. It was discovered that the inotify subsystem contained watch removal race conditions. A local attacker could exploit this t ... oval:org.secpod.oval:def:700450 Hugo Dias discovered that the ATM subsystem did not correctly manage socket counts. A local attacker could exploit this to cause a system hang, leading to a denial of service. It was discovered that the libertas wireless driver did not correctly handle beacon and probe responses. A physically near- ... |
