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CVE-2013-2224: Denial of service in sendmsg(). 8 Aug 2013 | 08:53 pm
In September 2012, CVE-2012-3552 was reported which could allow an attacker to corrupt slab memory which could lead to a denial-of-service or possible privilege escalation depending on the target mach...
CVE-2013-2850: Remote heap buffer overflow in iSCSI target subsystem. 31 May 2013 | 12:16 pm
We have just released a rebootless update to deal with a critical security vulnerability: As this vulnerability is exploitable by remote users, Ksplice is issuing an update for all affected kernels i...
Ksplice update for CVE-2013-2094 15 May 2013 | 09:11 am
This is a 0-day local privilege escalation found by Tommi Rantala while fuzzing the kernel using Trinity. The cause of that oops was patched in 3.8.10 in commit 8176cced706b5e5d15887584150764894e94e02...
Ksplice Inspector 2 Apr 2013 | 09:00 pm
With so many kernel updates released, it can be difficult to keep track. At Oracle, we monitor kernels on a daily basis and provide bug and security updates administrators can apply without a system r...
Introducing RedPatch 9 Nov 2012 | 09:00 pm
The Ksplice team is happy to announce the public availability of one of our git repositories, RedPatch. RedPatch contains the source for all of the changes Red Hat makes to their kernel, one commit pe...
The Ksplice Pointer Challenge 18 Oct 2011 | 11:42 pm
Back when Ksplice was just a research project at MIT, we all spent a lot of time around the student computing group, SIPB. While there, several precocious undergrads kept talking about how excited the...
Building a physical CPU load meter 28 Jun 2011 | 07:00 am
I built this analog CPU load meter for my dev workstation: All I did was drill a few holes into the CPU and probe the power supply lines... Okay, I lied. This is actually a fun project that would ma...
Improving your social life with git 7 May 2011 | 04:00 pm
I've used RCS, CVS, Subversion, and Perforce. Then I discovered distributed version control systems. Specifically, I discovered git. Lightweight branching? Clean histories? And you can work offline? I...
Security Advisory: Plumber Injection Attack in Bowser's Castle 1 Apr 2011 | 07:00 am
Advisory Name: Plumber Injection Attack in Bowser's Castle Release Date: 2011-04-01 Application: Bowser's Castle Affected Versions: Super Mario Bros., Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels Identi...
disown, zombie children, and the uninterruptible sleep 17 Mar 2011 | 06:00 am
It's the end of the day on Friday. On your laptop, in an ssh session on a work machine, you check on long.sh, which has been running all day and has another 8 or 9 hours to go. You start to close your...
