A new vulnerability, CVE-2018-1111, has been recently announced; it allows a malicious DHCP server to send a specially crafted response that can run privileged commands on a DHCP client that is running dhclient. This affects dhclient on both Centos Linux 6 and CentOS Linux 7 systems. RedHat have released an updated to ... Read More...
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On Thursday May 10, CentOS 7.5 (1804) was released. For more information about the release, see the CentOS Project's Release Notes here: https://wiki.centos.org/Manuals/ReleaseNotes/CentOS7.1804 Before upgrading to CentOS Linux 7.5, it is strongly encouraged to examine the above Release Notes, especially 'Known Issues' to see if it may adversely affect your setup; Included with ... Read More...
A new exploit vulnerability has been found: CVE-2015-7547: glibc getaddrinfo stack-based buffer overflow . According to the CVE, "A stack-based buffer overflow was found in the way the libresolv library performed dual A/AAAA DNS queries. A remote attacker could create a specially crafted DNS response which could cause libresolv to crash or, ... Read More...
CentOS 6 Linux kernel 2.6.32-573.7.1 has recently been released. Update type(s): bugfix Resolved CVEs: CVE-2015-5364 CVE-2015-5366 * When logging in as a user and trying to mount a share using the "cd" command, the UID and GID autofs additional variables previously took incorrect values, taking root UID and GID instead of user's UID and GID. The bug ... Read More...
CentOS 6 Linux kernel 2.6.32-573.3.1 has recently been released. Update type(s): security and bugfix Resolved CVEs: CVE-2015-5364 CVE-2015-5366 * When removing a directory, and a reference was held to that directory by a reference to a negative child dentry, the directory dentry was previously not killed. In addition, once the negative child dentry was killed, an unlinked and unused ... Read More...
CentOS 6 Linux kernel 2.6.32-504.30.3 has recently been released. Update type(s): security Resolved CVEs: CVE-2011-5321 CVE-2015-1593 CVE-2015-2830 CVE-2015-2922 CVE-2015-3636 A NULL pointer dereference flaw was found in the way the Linux kernel's virtual console implementation handled reference counting when accessing pseudo-terminal device files (/dev/pts/*). A local, unprivileged attacker could use this flaw to crash the system. (CVE-2011-5321, Moderate) * It was found that ... Read More...