USN-2518-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

A flaw was discovered in the Kernel Virtual Machine's KVM emulation of the SYSTENTER instruction when the guest OS does not initialize the SYSENTER MSRs. A guest OS user could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service of the guest OS crash or potentially gain privileges on the guest OS...

USN-2517-1 linux-lts-utopic vulnerabilities

A flaw was discovered in the Kernel Virtual Machine's KVM emulation of the SYSTENTER instruction when the guest OS does not initialize the SYSENTER MSRs. A guest OS user could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service of the guest OS crash or potentially gain privileges on the guest OS...

Linux Kernel ASLR Integer Overflow Vulnerability

Linux kernel is an open source operating system. The Linux kernel ASLR implementation suffers from an integer overflow that allows an attacker to exploit a vulnerability to crash an application or execute arbitrary code...

Microsoft Office ASLR Security Bypass Vulnerability

Microsoft Office is a popular office software suite developed by Microsoft. Microsoft Office has a security vulnerability in the handling of Office documents that allows an attacker to bypass ASLR security protections and gain access to sensitive information about the stack memory layout, which c...

Microsoft Office Shared Component ASLR Bypass (MS15-013; CVE-2014-6362)

A security feature bypass vulnerability exists in Microsoft Office Shared Component. The vulnerability is due to an improper implementation of Address Space Layout Randomization ASLR by MSCOMCTL common controls library used by Microsoft Office software. A remote attacker can exploit this issue by...

MS15-009: Description of the security update for JScript9.dll in Internet Explorer: February 10, 2015

Resolves vulnerabilities in Internet Explorer that could allow remote code execution if a user views a specially crafted webpage.SummaryThis article describes the cumulative security update for JScript9.dll in Internet Explorer that is dated February 10, 2015. This security update resolves an iss...

VulnCheck KEV: CVE-2015-0071

Microsoft Internet Explorer allows remote attackers to bypass the address space layout randomization ASLR protection mechanism via a crafted web site...

FreeType 'bdf/bdflib.c' Security Bypass Vulnerability

FreeType is a library of popular font functions. A security bypass vulnerability exists in FreeType 'bdf/bdflib.c' due to the program failing to correctly identify property names. Allows a remote attacker to discover heap pointer values and bypass the mechanism for making BDF font ASLR protection...

USN-2492-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Andy Lutomirski discovered an information leak in the Linux kernel's Thread Local Storage TLS implementation allowing users to bypass the espfix to obtain information that could be used to bypass the Address Space Layout Randomization ASLR protection mechanism. A local user could exploit this fla...

USN-2490-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Andy Lutomirski discovered an information leak in the Linux kernel's Thread Local Storage TLS implementation allowing users to bypass the espfix to obtain information that could be used to bypass the Address Space Layout Randomization ASLR protection mechanism. A local user could exploit this fla...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-2492-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2015 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

Apple MAC OS X Yosemite IOHIDFamily Driver Boundary Check Code Execution Vulnerability

Apple MAC OS X Yosemite is the latest operating system developed by Apple. The Apple MAC OS X Yosemite IOHIDFamily driver handles the presence of boundary checking on the user's client, allowing a malicious application to overwrite any portion of the kernel address space...

VulnCheck KEV: CVE-2015-0310

Adobe Flash Player does not properly restrict discovery of memory addresses, which allows attackers to bypass the address space layout randomization ASLR protection mechanism...

DEBIAN-CVE-2014-9585

The vdsoaddr function in arch/x86/vdso/vma.c in the Linux kernel through 3.18.2 does not properly choose memory locations for the vDSO area, which makes it easier for local users to bypass the ASLR protection mechanism by guessing a location at the end of a PMD...

UBUNTU-CVE-2014-9419

The switchto function in arch/x86/kernel/process64.c in the Linux kernel through 3.18.1 does not ensure that Thread Local Storage TLS descriptors are loaded before proceeding with other steps, which makes it easier for local users to bypass the ASLR protection mechanism via a crafted application...

png -- heap overflow for 32-bit builds

32-bit builds of PNG library are vulnerable to an unsigned integer overflow that is triggered by a crafted wide interlaced images. Overflow results in a heap corruption that will crash the application and may lead to the controlled overwrite of a selected portions of process address space...

UBUNTU-CVE-2014-8133

arch/x86/kernel/tls.c in the Thread Local Storage TLS implementation in the Linux kernel through 3.18.1 allows local users to bypass the espfix protection mechanism, and consequently makes it easier for local users to bypass the ASLR protection mechanism, via a crafted application that makes a...

DSA-3088-1 qemu-kvm - security update

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OracleVM 2.1 : kernel (OVMSA-2009-0017)

The remote OracleVM system is missing necessary patches to address critical security updates : CVE-2009-1895 The personality subsystem in the Linux kernel before 2.6.31-rc3 has a PERCLEARONSETID setting that does not clear the ADDRCOMPATLAYOUT and MMAPPAGEZERO flags when executing a setuid or...

DEBIAN-CVE-2014-7825

kernel/trace/tracesyscalls.c in the Linux kernel through 3.17.2 does not properly handle private syscall numbers during use of the perf subsystem, which allows local users to cause a denial of service out-of-bounds read and OOPS or bypass the ASLR protection mechanism via a crafted application...