Ubuntu 12.04 LTS : linux vulnerabilities (USN-2235-1)

Pinkie Pie discovered a flaw in the Linux kernel's futex subsystem. An unprivileged local user could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service system crash or gain administrative privileges. CVE-2014-3153 A flaw was discovered in the vhost-net subsystem of the Linux kernel. Guest OS users...

Ubuntu 13.10 : linux vulnerabilities (USN-2228-1)

Matthew Daley reported an information leak in the floppy disk driver of the Linux kernel. An unprivileged local user could exploit this flaw to obtain potentially sensitive information from kernel memory. CVE-2014-1738 Matthew Daley reported a flaw in the handling of ioctl commands by the floppy...

Ubuntu 12.10 : linux vulnerabilities (USN-2138-1)

Mathy Vanhoef discovered an error in the the way the ath9k driver was handling the BSSID masking. A remote attacker could exploit this error to discover the original MAC address after a spoofing atack. CVE-2013-4579 Andrew Honig reported a flaw in the Linux Kernel's kvmvmioctlcreatevcpu function ...

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS : linux vulnerabilities (USN-2133-1)

Mathy Vanhoef discovered an error in the the way the ath9k driver was handling the BSSID masking. A remote attacker could exploit this error to discover the original MAC address after a spoofing atack. CVE-2013-4579 Andrew Honig reported an error in the Linux Kernel's Kernel Virtual Machine KVM...

Ubuntu 13.10 : linux vulnerabilities (USN-2140-1)

An information leak was discovered in the Linux kernel when built with the NetFilter Connection Tracking NFCONNTRACK support for IRC protocol NFNATIRC. A remote attacker could exploit this flaw to obtain potentially sensitive kernel information when communicating over a client- to-client IRC...

Ubuntu 10.04 LTS : linux vulnerabilities (USN-2128-1)

An information leak was discovered in the Linux kernel when inotify is used to monitor the /dev/ptmx device. A local user could exploit this flaw to discover keystroke timing and potentially discover sensitive information like password length. CVE-2013-0160 Vasily Kulikov reported a flaw in the...

Ubuntu 10.04 LTS : linux vulnerabilities (USN-2107-1)

A flaw was discovered in the Linux kernel's compat ioctls for Adaptec AACRAID scsi raid devices. An unprivileged local user could send administrative commands to these devices potentially compromising the data stored on the device. CVE-2013-6383 mpd reported an information leak in the recvfrom,...

Ubuntu 12.10 : linux vulnerabilities (USN-2043-1)

A flaw was discovered in the Linux kernel's dm snapshot facility. A remote authenticated user could exploit this flaw to obtain sensitive information or modify/corrupt data. CVE-2013-4299 Hannes Frederic Sowa discovered a flaw in the Linux kernel's UDP Fragmenttation Offload UFO. An unprivileged...

Ubuntu 13.04 : linux vulnerabilities (USN-2045-1)

A flaw was discovered in the Linux kernel's dm snapshot facility. A remote authenticated user could exploit this flaw to obtain sensitive information or modify/corrupt data. CVE-2013-4299 Alan Chester reported a flaw in the IPv6 Stream Control Transmission Protocol SCTP of the Linux kernel. A...

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS : linux vulnerabilities (USN-2038-1)

An information leak was discovered in the handling of ICMPv6 Router Advertisement RA messages in the Linux kernel's IPv6 network stack. A remote attacker could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service excessive retries and address-generation outage, and consequently obtain sensitive...

Ubuntu 10.04 LTS : linux vulnerabilities (USN-2036-1)

A flaw was discovered in the Linux kernel's KVM kernel virtual machine. An administrative user in the guest OS could leverage this flaw to cause a denial of service in the host OS. CVE-2012-2121 Multiple integer overflow flaws where discovered in the Alchemy LCD frame- buffer drivers in the Linux...

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS : linux vulnerabilities (USN-2017-1)

A denial of service flaw was discovered in the Btrfs file system in the Linux kernel. A local user could cause a denial of service by creating a large number of files with names that have the same CRC32 hash value. CVE-2012-5374 A denial of service flaw was discovered in the Btrfs file system in...

Ubuntu 13.04 : linux vulnerabilities (USN-2023-1)

An information leak was discovered in the handling of ICMPv6 Router Advertisement RA messages in the Linux kernel's IPv6 network stack. A remote attacker could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service excessive retries and address-generation outage, and consequently obtain sensitive...

Ubuntu 10.04 LTS : linux vulnerabilities (USN-1976-1)

An information leak was discovered in the handling of ICMPv6 Router Advertisement RA messages in the Linux kernel's IPv6 network stack. A remote attacker could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service excessive retries and address-generation outage, and consequently obtain sensitive...

Ubuntu 13.04 : linux vulnerabilities (USN-1974-1)

Vince Weaver discovered a flaw in the perf subsystem of the Linux kernel on ARM platforms. A local user could exploit this flaw to gain privileges or cause a denial of service system crash. CVE-2013-4254 A memory leak was discovered in the user namespace facility of the Linux kernel. A local user...

Ubuntu 12.10 : linux vulnerabilities (USN-1972-1)

Vince Weaver discovered a flaw in the perf subsystem of the Linux kernel on ARM platforms. A local user could exploit this flaw to gain privileges or cause a denial of service system crash. CVE-2013-4254 A failure to validate block numbers was discovered in the Linux kernel's implementation of th...

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS : linux vulnerabilities (USN-1968-1)

Vince Weaver discovered a flaw in the perf subsystem of the Linux kernel on ARM platforms. A local user could exploit this flaw to gain privileges or cause a denial of service system crash. CVE-2013-4254 A failure to validate block numbers was discovered in the Linux kernel's implementation of th...

Ubuntu 13.04 : linux vulnerabilities (USN-1938-1)

Vasily Kulikov discovered a flaw in the Linux Kernel's perf tool that allows specified to be run as root. A local could exploit this flaw to run commands as root when using the perf tool. user could exploit this CVE-2013-1060 A flaw was discovered in the Xen subsystem of the Linux kernel when it...

Ubuntu 12.10 : linux vulnerabilities (USN-1932-1)

Chanam Park reported a NULL pointer flaw in the Linux kernel's Ceph client. A remote attacker could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service system crash. CVE-2013-1059 An information leak was discovered in the Linux kernel's fanotify interface. A local user could exploit this flaw to obtai...

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS : linux vulnerabilities (USN-1833-1)

Andy Lutomirski discover an error in the Linux kernel's credential handling on unix sockets. A local user could exploit this flaw to gain administrative privileges. CVE-2013-1979 A buffer overflow vulnerability was discovered in the Broadcom tg3 ethernet driver for the Linux kernel. A local user...