CVE-2016-6777

An elevation of privilege vulnerability in the NVIDIA GPU driver could enable a local malicious application to execute arbitrary code within the context of the kernel. This issue is rated as Critical due to the possibility of a local permanent device compromise, which may require reflashing the...

kernel security, bug fix, and enhancement update

3.10.0-327.OL7 - Oracle Linux certificates Alexey Petrenko 3.10.0-327 - mm free compound page with correct order Andrea Arcangeli 1274867 - netdrv revert 'ixgbe: Refactor busy poll socket code to address multiple issues' John Greene 1261275 - powerpc dma: dmasetcoherentmask should not be GPL only...

UBUNTU-CVE-2014-5332

Race condition in NVMap in NVIDIA Tegra Linux Kernel 3.10 allows local users to gain privileges via a crafted NVMAPIOCCREATE IOCTL call, which triggers a use-after-free error, as demonstrated by using a race condition to escape the Chrome sandbox...