Tavis Ormandy and Julien Tiennes, two security specialists from Google, reported last night (August 13th) that they had discovered a critical security vulnerability in all Linux kernels (2.4 and 2.6) since 2001, for all architectures. The CVE-2009-2692 vulnerability allows regular users to get root rights on the affe... |
14 August 2009
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On November 27th, the Ubuntu developers announced the availability of a major security update for the following Ubuntu distributions: 6.06 LTS, 7.10, 8.04 LTS and 8.10 (also applies to Kubuntu, Edubuntu and Xubuntu). The update patches nine security issues (see below for details) discovered in the Linux kernel packag... |
28 November 2008
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A regression was discovered last night, right after the launch of Ubuntu 8.10 (codename Intrepid Ibex), in the Linux kernel packages. Do not be alarmed, as this is not a security flaw! It's actually a bug in 2.6.27 Linux kernel packages. What happened? Well, long story short, the order of options in the TCP head... |
31 October 2008
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A security vulnerability was discovered yesterday, 25 August 2008, in the Linux kernel packages of the Ubuntu 8.04 LTS, 7.10, 7.04 and 6.06 LTS distributions (also applies to Kubuntu, Edubuntu and Xubuntu). This kernel vulnerability could lead to DoS (Denial of Service) attacks and/or loss of privacy. The security fl... |
26 August 2008
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A security vulnerability was discovered yesterday in the Linux kernel packages of the Ubuntu 8.04, 7.10, 7.04 and 6.06 LTS distributions (also applies to Kubuntu, Edubuntu and Xubuntu). This kernel vulnerability could lead to DoS (Denial of Service) attacks and loss of privacy. The security flaw can be fixed if you u... |
16 July 2008
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A security vulnerability was discovered yesterday in the Linux kernel packages of the Ubuntu 7.10, 7.04 and 6.06 LTS distributions (also applies to Kubuntu, Edubuntu and Xubuntu). This kernel vulnerability could allow a local attacker to access sensitive kernel memory, leading to a loss of privacy. The security flaw ... |
20 June 2008
02:24 GMT |
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A security vulnerability was discovered yesterday in the Linux kernel packages of the Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Edubuntu and Xubuntu 8.04 distributions. This kernel vulnerability could allow a local attacker to cause a system crash, leading to a DoS (Denial of Service). The security flaw can be fixed if you upgrade your syste... |
4 June 2008
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A kernel vulnerability has been found today by Masayuki Nakagawa, which can be exploited by local attackers to cause a denial of service (DoS) attack. This bug is due to an error in the "tcp_v6_syn_recv_soc()" a.k.a. net/ipv6/tcp_ipv6.c function where the IPv6 flow list (ipv6_fl_socklist) is shared with child socke... |
23 March 2007
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