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Linux Kernel Flaw Allows DoS Attack
News Linux distributor Novell SuSE released a security advisory with a severity rating of nine out of 10 last week warning of a flaw in Linux kernel 2.6. Red Hat's enterprise product, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, is not affected by the flaw as it uses...
[October 25, 2004, 17:40]
Linux Kernel Flaw Could Trigger DoS Incidents
News Several versions of Linux from multiple vendors are reportedly vulnerable to a flaw in the Linux 2.4 kernel. However, Weimer pointed out that "the route cache is a DoS bottleneck in general," and that random addresses in volumes larger than 400...
[May 27, 2003, 13:55]
Java Flaw Opens Windows, Linux To Attack
News A flaw in Sun's plug-in for running Java on a variety of browsers and operating systems could allow a virus to spread through Microsoft Windows and Linux PCs. Security information provider Secunia posted information about the flaw in an advisory...
[November 24, 2004, 8:40]
Linux Users Warned About Firefox Flaw
News The flaw can only be exploited on Unix or Linux based environments and can be fixed by upgrading to Firefox 1.0.7. Security firm Secunia warned on Tuesday that a flaw rated as "extremely critical" has been found in Firefox 1.0.6.
[September 21, 2005, 17:10]
Linux Users Urged To Patch File-sharing Flaw
News The flaw occurs in the code that reassembles data that the software receives from the Internet, according to the advisory. If you are going to have a flaw of this magnitude that is the best way to catch it," he said.
[March 18, 2003, 8:21]
New Samba Flaw Compromises Linux Servers
News The Samba Team released a patch on Monday for the second major security flaw found in the past few weeks in the open-source group's widely used program for sharing Windows files between Unix and Linux systems.
[April 8, 2003, 7:59]
Flaw Weakens Linux Security Software
News The flaw, which affects versions 2.4.14 through 2.4.18-pre9 of the Linux kernel, is in a component of the Netfilter firewall software. Programmers have found a vulnerability in Linux that could allow protective firewall software to grant malicious...
[March 1, 2002, 10:08]
Security Flaw Hits Linux
News A flaw in a software-compression library used in all versions of Linux could leave the lion's share of systems based on the open-source operating system open to attack, said sources in the security community on Monday.
[March 12, 2002, 8:52]
Debian Team Confirm Linux Flaw Allowed Attack
News The Debian Project warned on Monday that a flaw in the Linux kernel helped attackers compromise four of the open-source software project's development servers. Members of the development team found the flaw in September and fixed the latest version...
[December 2, 2003, 10:15]
KDE Flaw Opens Linux Systems To Attack
News The flaw, deemed "critical" by the research outfit FrSIRT, could allow a remote attacker to gain control over vulnerable systems. An attacker could craft a special UTF-8 encoded URI sequence to exploit the flaw, according to the advisory.
[January 23, 2006, 9:15]
KDE Flaw Opens Linux Systems To Attack
Talkback Linux has many other browsers to choose from and I expect this flaw to be fixed a lot sooner than " on a monthly patch". This flaw is limited to the Konqueror web browser. I STILL trust Linux much more than that fragment of excrement from Redmond.
[January 23, 2006, 13:19]
Linux Users Warned About Firefox Flaw
Talkback Ok. EXTREMELY CRITICAL? Come on - even if code were run in your shell, it would still only be run as a user, and the damage would be contained to a single user's files. So you lose a few mp3s or a .rc file or two.
[September 22, 2005, 19:23]
Linux Users Warned About Firefox Flaw
Talkback You needn't use AOL's Poxfire, the unholy spawn of Microsoft's front-stabbing and AOL's back-stabbing of Netscape, now that the Opera browser is freeware. Yeah, it's better!
[September 22, 2005, 20:51]
Linux Flaw Allows Local Attacks
News Programmers disclosed a security hole this week in a part of the heart of the Linux operating system that could let users of a machine take it over even if they don't have privileges to do so. The vulnerability affects both the 2.2 and 2.4 series...
[March 20, 2003, 11:03]
Security Flaw Hits Windows, Mac, Linux
News Security researchers have warned of a flaw in communications software that could allow attackers to take over computers running Windows, Unix-based operating systems and Mac OS X, as well as Kerberos authentication systems.
[August 7, 2002, 11:54]
DB2 Flaw Leaves Database Defenceless
News A security flaw in Linux editions of IBM's DB2 database could allow unauthorised users to seize control of a database's contents, Big Blue has revealed. The flaw was uncovered by Boston security company Core Security Technologies, which alerted IBM.
[September 18, 2003, 8:55]
Patch Fixes Flaw Behind Gentoo Attack
News The team responsible for Rsync, an open-source file-transfer program, has released a fix for a security flaw used in the recent compromise of a Gentoo Linux project server. The team said that the attacker used a flaw in Rsync along with a recently...
[December 5, 2003, 11:50]
Rogue Code Can Take Down Linux Systems
News Linux users have been urged to fix a flaw in the core component of the open-source operating system, following the public release of code that could be used to crash Linux systems. The flaw, found by two software programmers, could give a user with...
[June 16, 2004, 8:55]
Linux Servers At Risk From 'serious' Flaw
News A vulnerability in the most widely used FTP server program for Linux has left numerous sites open to online attackers, a situation worsened when Red Hat mistakenly released information on the flaw early, leaving other Linux companies scrambling to...
[November 29, 2001, 8:36]
Open-source Flaw Threatens Microsoft
News A security flaw in open-source software used by Linux and Unix systems for compression may affect some Microsoft products that also use the code. As reported earlier this week by ZDNet UK, a flaw in the zlib software-compression library could leave...
[March 15, 2002, 8:57]
