Day: September 27, 2013

Protesters Are Dodging Sudan’s Internet Shutdown With a Phone-Powered Crowdmap

Lasrick writes “Motherboard’s Africa correspondent, Amanda Sperber, has a great piece on how protesters in Sudan are getting around the government’s shutdown of the internet. Quoting: ‘Since Wednesday afternoon, Sudan’s internet has been sporadically shut off amid a fifth day of protests against President Omar al Bashir’s regime. Despite the attempt to cut off communications…


Mandriva Linux Security Advisory 2013-243

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory 2013-243 – A race condition was found in the way the PolicyKit pkcheck utility checked process authorization when the process was specified by its process ID via the –process option. A local user could use this flaw to bypass intended PolicyKit authorizations and escalate their privileges…….


Ubuntu Security Notice USN-1970-1

Ubuntu Security Notice 1970-1 – Vince Weaver discovered a flaw in the perf subsystem of the Linux kernel on ARM platforms. A local user could exploit this flaw to gain privileges or cause a denial of service (system crash). A failure to validate block numbers was discovered in the Linux kernel’s implementation of the XFS…


Ubuntu Security Notice USN-1969-1

Ubuntu Security Notice 1969-1 – Vince Weaver discovered a flaw in the perf subsystem of the Linux kernel on ARM platforms. A local user could exploit this flaw to gain privileges or cause a denial of service (system crash). A failure to validate block numbers was discovered in the Linux kernel’s implementation of the XFS…


Ubuntu Security Notice USN-1974-1

Ubuntu Security Notice 1974-1 – Vince Weaver discovered a flaw in the perf subsystem of the Linux kernel on ARM platforms. A local user could exploit this flaw to gain privileges or cause a denial of service (system crash). A memory leak was discovered in the user namespace facility of the Linux kernel. A local…


Ubuntu Security Notice USN-1975-1

Ubuntu Security Notice 1975-1 – Vince Weaver discovered a flaw in the perf subsystem of the Linux kernel on ARM platforms. A local user could exploit this flaw to gain privileges or cause a denial of service (system crash). A failure to validate block numbers was discovered in the Linux kernel’s implementation of the XFS…


Ubuntu Security Notice USN-1968-1

Ubuntu Security Notice 1968-1 – Vince Weaver discovered a flaw in the perf subsystem of the Linux kernel on ARM platforms. A local user could exploit this flaw to gain privileges or cause a denial of service (system crash). A failure to validate block numbers was discovered in the Linux kernel’s implementation of the XFS…


Gentoo Linux Security Advisory 201309-23

Gentoo Linux Security Advisory 201309-23 – Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in Mozilla Firefox, Thunderbird, and SeaMonkey, some of which may allow a remote user to execute arbitrary code. Versions less than 17.0.9 are affected…….


Gentoo Linux Security Advisory 201309-24

Gentoo Linux Security Advisory 201309-24 – Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in Xen, allowing attackers on a Xen Virtual Machine to execute arbitrary code, cause Denial of Service, or gain access to data on the host. Versions less than 4.2.2-r1 are affected…….


Debian Security Advisory 2765-1

Debian Linux Security Advisory 2765-1 – Davfs2, a filesystem client for WebDAV, calls the function system() insecurely while is setuid root. This might allow a privilege escalation…….