Ubuntu Security Notice 2870-2 – Yevgeny Pats discovered that the session keyring implementation in the Linux kernel did not properly reference count when joining an existing session keyring. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service (system crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code with administrative privileges.
Monthly Archives: January 2016
Red Hat Security Advisory 2016-0045-01
Red Hat Security Advisory 2016-0045-01 – The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system. Two flaws were found in the way the Linux kernel’s networking implementation handled UDP packets with incorrect checksum values. A remote attacker could potentially use these flaws to trigger an infinite loop in the kernel, resulting in a denial of service on the system, or cause a denial of service in applications using the edge triggered epoll functionality. All kernel users are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which contain backported patches to correct these issues. The system must be rebooted for this update to take effect.
Red Hat Security Advisory 2016-0046-01
Red Hat Security Advisory 2016-0046-01 – The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system. It was found that the x86 ISA is prone to a denial of service attack inside a virtualized environment in the form of an infinite loop in the microcode due to the way delivering of benign exceptions such as #AC and #DB is handled. A privileged user inside a guest could use these flaws to create denial of service conditions on the host kernel.
Ubuntu Security Notice USN-2870-1
Ubuntu Security Notice 2870-1 – Yevgeny Pats discovered that the session keyring implementation in the Linux kernel did not properly reference count when joining an existing session keyring. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service (system crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code with administrative privileges.
Ubuntu Security Notice USN-2871-1
Ubuntu Security Notice 2871-1 – Yevgeny Pats discovered that the session keyring implementation in the Linux kernel did not properly reference count when joining an existing session keyring. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service (system crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code with administrative privileges.
Ubuntu Security Notice USN-2872-1
Ubuntu Security Notice 2872-1 – Yevgeny Pats discovered that the session keyring implementation in the Linux kernel did not properly reference count when joining an existing session keyring. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service (system crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code with administrative privileges.
Ubuntu Security Notice USN-2873-1
Ubuntu Security Notice 2873-1 – Yevgeny Pats discovered that the session keyring implementation in the Linux kernel did not properly reference count when joining an existing session keyring. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service (system crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code with administrative privileges.
Ubuntu Security Notice USN-2871-2
Ubuntu Security Notice 2871-2 – Yevgeny Pats discovered that the session keyring implementation in the Linux kernel did not properly reference count when joining an existing session keyring. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service (system crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code with administrative privileges.
Ubuntu Security Notice USN-2872-2
Ubuntu Security Notice 2872-2 – Yevgeny Pats discovered that the session keyring implementation in the Linux kernel did not properly reference count when joining an existing session keyring. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service (system crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code with administrative privileges.
Facebook adds Built-in Tor Support for its Android App
Rejoice for Privacy Lovers!
Facebook today took a surprising move by announcing that it is bringing the free anonymizing software TOR support to its Android app, almost two years after the social network planned to make Facebook available directly over Tor network.
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Yes. Believe it or not, the Android version of the popular Facebook application now supports the Tor
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