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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-2016-4578
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...
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...
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...
PT-2022-2031
Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Linux kernel affected versions not specified Description The issue is related to the use of an uninitialized pointer nft do chain in the nf tables module of the Linux kernel's netfilter subsystem. This can cause a use-after-free condition,...
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...
[LinEnum v0.2] Automating local information gathering tasks on Linux hosts
LinEnum is a shell script that automates local information gathering tasks on Linux hosts.Over 65 checks are performed, obtaining anything from kernel information to locating possible escalation points such as potentially useful SUID/GUID files and Sudo/rhost mis-configurations etc. Additionally,...
kernel: Information leak in the Data Center Bridging (DCB) component
net/dcb/dcbnl.c in the Linux kernel before 3.8.4 does not initialize certain structures, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel stack memory via a crafted application...
Kernel: Bluetooth: possible info leak in bt_sock_recvmsg()
The btsockrecvmsg function in net/bluetooth/afbluetooth.c in the Linux kernel before 3.9-rc7 does not properly initialize a certain length variable, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel stack memory via a crafted recvmsg or recvfrom system call...
kernel: Information leak in the RTNETLINK component
The rtnlfillifinfo function in net/core/rtnetlink.c in the Linux kernel before 3.8.4 does not initialize a certain structure member, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel stack memory via a crafted application...
Kernel: Bluetooth: HCI & L2CAP information leaks
The Bluetooth protocol stack in the Linux kernel before 3.6 does not properly initialize certain structures, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel stack memory via a crafted application that targets the 1 L2CAP or 2 HCI implementation...
