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Kernel: ALSA: control: integer overflow in id.index & id.numid
An integer overflow flaw was found in the way the Linux kernel's Advanced Linux Sound Architecture ALSA implementation handled user controls. A local, privileged user could use this flaw to crash the system...
Kernel: net: SCTP: fix a NULL pointer dereference during INIT collisions
A NULL pointer dereference flaw was found in the way the Linux kernel's Stream Control Transmission Protocol SCTP implementation handled simultaneous connections between the same hosts. A remote attacker could use this flaw to crash the system...
kernel: ath9k: tid->sched race in ath_tx_aggr_sleep()
It was found that a remote attacker could use a race condition flaw in the athtxaggrsleep function to crash the system by creating large network traffic on the system's Atheros 9k wireless network adapter...
Avira Premium Security Suite NtCreateKey Race Condition Vulnerability
No description provided by source. 1.Description: The avipbb.sys kernel driver distributed with Avira Premium Security Suite contains a race condition vulnerability in the handling paramaters of NtCreatekey function. Exploitation of this issue allows an attacker to crash systemmake infamous BSoD ...
PT-2013-6045 · Linux +2 · Linux Kernel +2
Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Linux kernel versions prior to 3.12.4 Description: The issue is related to the ping recvmsg function in the Linux kernel, which does not properly interact with read system calls on ping sockets. This allows local users with unspecified...
UBUNTU-CVE-2013-4129
The bridge multicast implementation in the Linux kernel through 3.10.3 does not check whether a certain timer is armed before modifying the timeout value of that timer, which allows local users to cause a denial of service BUG and system crash via vectors involving the shutdown of a KVM virtual...
Ubuntu 10.10 : linux-mvl-dove vulnerabilities (USN-1245-1)
Ryan Sweat discovered that the kernel incorrectly handled certain VLAN packets. On some systems, a remote attacker could send specially crafted traffic to crash the system, leading to a denial of service. CVE-2011-1576 Vasiliy Kulikov and Dan Rosenberg discovered that ecryptfs did not correctly...
connect to all open ports
It was possible to crash the remote system by connecting to every open port. This is known to bluescreen machines running LANDesk8 In this case, connecting to two ports is enough. SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2004 Michel Arboi Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and ar...
RHEL 3 : kernel (RHSA-2004:413)
Updated kernel packages that fix several security issues in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 are now available. The Linux kernel handles the basic functions of the operating system. Paul Starzetz discovered flaws in the Linux kernel when handling file offset pointers. These consist of invalid conversio...
TCP/IP Ping of Death Remote DoS (jolt)
The remote host crashed when pinged with an incorrectly fragmented packet. This is known as the 'jolt' or 'ping of death' denial of service attack. A remote attacker could exploit this to repeatedly crash this server. C Tenable Network Security, Inc. include"compat.inc"; if description...
Windows 98 FTP MS/DOS Device Name Request DoS
It was possible to freeze or reboot Windows by reading a MS/DOS device through FTP, using a file name like CON\CON, AUX.htm, or AUX. An attacker may use this flaw to continuously crash the affected host, preventing users from working properly. C Tenable Network Security, Inc. Script audit and...
OpenBSD local DoS
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- A local denial of service attack against OpenBSD was published today Sunday Dec 02 to the [email protected] mailing list by Marco Peereboom [email protected]. I'm forwarding his message on to the general security community. The effect of the attack is to crash...
another fatal bug in NT/2000 "Command Prompt" I/O
Recent messages on the comp.lang.c and allegedly comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32 have documented various short programs which cause Windows NT4 and 2000 to crash and reboot by writing certain strings to stdout. The following is one example of such a program: include stdio.h int mainvoid while...