CVE-2017-0245

The kernel-mode drivers in Windows Server 2008 SP2 and R2 SP1, Windows 7 SP1 and Windows Server 2012 Gold allow a local authenticated attacker to execute a specially crafted application to obtain kernel information, aka "Win32k Information Disclosure Vulnerability."...

UBUNTU-CVE-2017-0627

An information disclosure vulnerability in the kernel UVC driver could enable a local malicious application to access data outside of its permission levels. This issue is rated as Moderate because it first requires compromising a privileged process. Product: Android. Versions: Kernel-3.10,...

Microsoft Windows Kernel Information Disclosure Vulnerability (KB4018821)

This host is missing an important security update according to Microsoft Security update KB4018821 SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2017 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier:...

CVE-2017-0058

A Win32k information disclosure vulnerability exists in Microsoft Windows when the win32k component improperly provides kernel information. An attacker who successfully exploited the vulnerability could obtain information to further compromise the user's system, aka "Win32k Information Disclosure...

Google Android Kernel Component Information Disclosure Vulnerability (CNVD-2016-12196)

Android on Nexus 9 is an open-source Linux-based operating system for the Nexus 9 tablet developed by Google and the Open Handset Alliance OHA. kernel is one of the kernels used. An information disclosure vulnerability exists in the kernel component of Android on Google Nexus 9 devices. The...

kernel: Information leak when truncating of compressed/inlined extents on BTRFS

An information-leak vulnerability was found in the kernel when it truncated a file to a smaller size which consisted of an inline extent that was compressed. The data between the new file size and the old file size was not discarded and the number of bytes used by the inode were not correctly...

The vulnerability of the Linux operating system allows a malicious individual to gain access to confidential information from the kernel’s stack memory.

A vulnerability exists in the ccid3hctxgetsockopt function in the Linux kernel’s net/dccp/ccids/ccid3.c file, due to the lack of initialization for certain structures. Exploiting this vulnerability allows local users to access confidential information from the kernel’s stack memory through a...

USN-3016-4 linux-lts-xenial vulnerabilities

USN-3016-1 fixed vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel for Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. This update provides the corresponding updates for the Linux Hardware Enablement HWE kernel from Ubuntu 16.04 LTS for Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. Jesse Hertz and Tim Newsham discovered that the Linux netfilter implementation did not...

openSUSE Security Update : the Linux Kernel (openSUSE-2016-753)

The openSUSE Leap 42.1 kernel was updated to 4.1.26 to receive various security and bugfixes. The following security bugs were fixed : - CVE-2016-1583: Prevent the usage of mmap when the lower file system does not allow it. This could have lead to local privilege escalation when ecryptfs-utils wa...

UBUNTU-CVE-2016-4482

The procconnectinfo function in drivers/usb/core/devio.c in the Linux kernel through 4.6 does not initialize a certain data structure, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel stack memory via a crafted USBDEVFSCONNECTINFO ioctl call...

UBUNTU-CVE-2016-4578

sound/core/timer.c in the Linux kernel through 4.6 does not initialize certain r1 data structures, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel stack memory via crafted use of the ALSA timer interface, related to the 1 sndtimeruserccallback and 2 sndtimerusertinterrupt...

CVE-2015-7885

The dgncmgmtioctl function in drivers/staging/dgnc/dgncmgmt.c in the Linux kernel through 4.3.3 does not initialize a certain structure member, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel memory via a crafted application...

USN-2777-1 linux-lts-utopic vulnerabilities

It was discovered that virtio networking in the Linux kernel did not handle fragments correctly, leading to kernel memory corruption. A remote attacker could use this to cause a denial of service system crash or possibly execute code with administrative privileges. CVE-2015-5156 Benjamin Randazzo...

Apple iOS XNU Memory Leak Vulnerability

Apple iOS is the latest operating system that runs on Apple's iPhone and iPod touch devices. A security vulnerability exists in Apple iOS XNU that allows local users to exploit a vulnerability to obtain kernel memory information...

Linux Kernel SMB Filesystem smb_receive Transaction2 - Ver2 (CVE-2004-0949)

Multiple vulnerabilities have been reported in the smbrecvtrans2 function call in the samba filesystem smbfs in Linux kernel 2.4 and 2.6. Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow a remote attacker to read arbitrary kernel information or raise a counter value to an arbitrary numbe...

Kernel: target/rd: imformation leakage

An information leak flaw was found in the RAM Disks Memory Copy rdmcp backend driver of the iSCSI Target subsystem of the Linux kernel. A privileged user could use this flaw to leak the contents of kernel memory to an iSCSI initiator remote client...

kernel: net: potential information leak when ubuf backed skbs are skb_zerocopy()ied

Use-after-free vulnerability in the nfqnlzcopy function in net/netfilter/nfnetlinkqueuecore.c in the Linux kernel through 3.13.6 allows attackers to obtain sensitive information from kernel memory by leveraging the absence of a certain orphaning operation. NOTE: the affected code was moved to the...

Kernel: net: information leak in recvmsg handler msg_name & msg_namelen logic

The mISDNsockrecvmsg function in drivers/isdn/mISDN/socket.c in the Linux kernel before 3.12.4 does not ensure that a certain length value is consistent with the size of an associated data structure, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel memory via a 1 recvfrom, 2...

UBUNTU-CVE-2014-1446

The yamioctl function in drivers/net/hamradio/yam.c in the Linux kernel before 3.12.8 does not initialize a certain structure member, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel memory by leveraging the CAPNETADMIN capability for an SIOCYAMGCFG ioctl call...

Kernel: information leak in fs/compat_ioctl.c VIDEO_SET_SPU_PALETTE

The dovideosetspupalette function in fs/compatioctl.c in the Linux kernel before 3.6.5 on unspecified architectures lacks a certain error check, which might allow local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel stack memory via a crafted VIDEOSETSPUPALETTE ioctl call on a /dev/dvb device...