Ubuntu 8.04 LTS : linux vulnerability (USN-1650-1)

Rodrigo Freire discovered a flaw in the Linux kernel's TCP illinois congestion control algorithm. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service. Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory. Tenable has...

Ubuntu 10.04 LTS : linux-lts-backport-oneiric vulnerabilities (USN-1652-1)

Brad Spengler discovered a flaw in the Linux kernel's uname system call. An unprivileged user could exploit this flaw to read kernel stack memory. CVE-2012-0957 Rodrigo Freire discovered a flaw in the Linux kernel's TCP illinois congestion control algorithm. A local attacker could use this to cau...

Ubuntu 11.10 : linux vulnerabilities (USN-1648-1)

Brad Spengler discovered a flaw in the Linux kernel's uname system call. An unprivileged user could exploit this flaw to read kernel stack memory. CVE-2012-0957 Rodrigo Freire discovered a flaw in the Linux kernel's TCP illinois congestion control algorithm. A local attacker could use this to cau...

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS : linux vulnerabilities (USN-1644-1)

Brad Spengler discovered a flaw in the Linux kernel's uname system call. An unprivileged user could exploit this flaw to read kernel stack memory. CVE-2012-0957 Rodrigo Freire discovered a flaw in the Linux kernel's TCP illinois congestion control algorithm. A local attacker could use this to cau...

USN-1650-1: Linux kernel vulnerability

Rodrigo Freire discovered a flaw in the Linux kernel's TCP illinois congestion control algorithm. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service...

USN-1647-1: Linux kernel (OMAP4) vulnerabilities

Brad Spengler discovered a flaw in the Linux kernel's uname system call. An unprivileged user could exploit this flaw to read kernel stack memory. CVE-2012-0957 Rodrigo Freire discovered a flaw in the Linux kernel's TCP illinois congestion control algorithm. A local attacker could use this to cau...

UBUNTU-CVE-2012-4565

The tcpillinoisinfo function in net/ipv4/tcpillinois.c in the Linux kernel before 3.4.19, when the net.ipv4.tcpcongestioncontrol illinois setting is enabled, allows local users to cause a denial of service divide-by-zero error and OOPS by reading TCP stats...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-1609-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2012 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...

USN-1609-1: Linux kernel (OMAP4) vulnerability

A flaw was found in how the Linux kernel's KVM Kernel-based Virtual Machine subsystem handled MSI Message Signaled Interrupts. A local unprivileged user could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service or potentially elevate privileges. CVE-2012-2137 Mathias Krause discover an error in Linux...

USN-1599-1: Linux kernel (OMAP4) vulnerability

Pablo Neira Ayuso discovered a flaw in the credentials of netlink messages. An unprivileged local attacker could exploit this by getting a netlink based service, that relies on netlink credentials, to perform privileged actions. CVE-2012-3520 Mathias Krause discovered information leak in the Linu...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-1594-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2012 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...

USN-1594-1: Linux kernel (Oneiric backport) vulnerabilities

Vadim Ponomarev discovered a flaw in the Linux kernel causing a reference leak when PID namespaces are used. A remote attacker could exploit this flaw causing a denial of service. CVE-2012-2127 A flaw was found in how the Linux kernel's KVM Kernel-based Virtual Machine subsystem handled MSI Messa...

SuSE 10 Security Update : Linux kernel (ZYPP Patch Number 7811)

This Linux kernel update fixes various security issues and bugs in the SUSE Linux Enterprise 10 SP4 kernel. The following security issues have been fixed : - A USB string descriptor overflow in the auerwald USB driver was fixed, which could be used by physically proximate attackers to cause a...

kernel: dccp: handle invalid feature options length

Integer underflow in the dccpparseoptions function net/dccp/options.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.33.14 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a Datagram Congestion Control Protocol DCCP packet with an invalid feature options length, which triggers a buffer over-read...

CVE-2011-1770

CVE-2011-1770 affects the Linux kernel up to version 2.6.33.14, where an integer underflow in dccp_parse_options (net/dccp/options.c) can be triggered by a DCCP packet with an invalid feature options length, causing a buffer over-read and remote denial of service. The vulnerability is exploitable...

CVE-2011-1770

Integer underflow in the dccpparseoptions function net/dccp/options.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.33.14 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a Datagram Congestion Control Protocol DCCP packet with an invalid feature options length, which triggers a buffer over-read...

Debian DSA-2264-1 : linux-2.6 - privilege escalation/denial of service/information leak

Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Linux kernel that may lead to a privilege escalation, denial of service or information leak. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems : - CVE-2010-2524 David Howells reported an issue in the Common...

kernel: dccp: handle invalid feature options length

Integer underflow in the dccpparseoptions function net/dccp/options.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.33.14 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a Datagram Congestion Control Protocol DCCP packet with an invalid feature options length, which triggers a buffer over-read...

kernel: dccp: fix oops on Reset after close

The dccprcvstateprocess function in net/dccp/input.c in the Datagram Congestion Control Protocol DCCP implementation in the Linux kernel before 2.6.38 does not properly handle packets for a CLOSED endpoint, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service NULL pointer dereference and OO...

kernel: dccp: fix oops on Reset after close

The dccprcvstateprocess function in net/dccp/input.c in the Datagram Congestion Control Protocol DCCP implementation in the Linux kernel before 2.6.38 does not properly handle packets for a CLOSED endpoint, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service NULL pointer dereference and OO...