Weekly Vulnerabilities Reports > September 5 to 11, 2011

Overview

2 new vulnerabilities reported during this period, including 0 critical vulnerabilities and 1 high severity vulnerabilities. This weekly summary report vulnerabilities in 6 products from 2 vendors including Linux, and Redhat. Vulnerabilities are notably categorized as "NULL Pointer Dereference", and "Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer".

  • 1 reported vulnerabilities are exploitable by an anonymous user.
  • Linux has the most reported vulnerabilities, with 2 reported vulnerabilities.

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Vulnerability Details

The following table list reported vulnerabilities for the period covered by this report:

0 Critical Vulnerabilities

DATE CVE VENDOR VULNERABILITY CVSS

1 High Vulnerabilities

DATE CVE VENDOR VULNERABILITY CVSS
2011-09-06 CVE-2011-1771 Linux NULL Pointer Dereference vulnerability in Linux Kernel

The cifs_close function in fs/cifs/file.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.39 allows local users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and BUG) or possibly have unspecified other impact by setting the O_DIRECT flag during an attempt to open a file on a CIFS filesystem.
7.8

1 Medium Vulnerabilities

DATE CVE VENDOR VULNERABILITY CVSS
2011-09-06 CVE-2011-1776 Linux
Redhat 		Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer vulnerability in multiple products

The is_gpt_valid function in fs/partitions/efi.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.39 does not check the size of an Extensible Firmware Interface (EFI) GUID Partition Table (GPT) entry, which allows physically proximate attackers to cause a denial of service (heap-based buffer overflow and OOPS) or obtain sensitive information from kernel heap memory by connecting a crafted GPT storage device, a different vulnerability than CVE-2011-1577.
6.1

0 Low Vulnerabilities

DATE CVE VENDOR VULNERABILITY CVSS