Ubuntu 10.04 LTS : linux vulnerabilities (USN-1824-1)

Mathias Krause discovered an information leak in the Linux kernel's ISO 9660 CDROM file system driver. A local user could exploit this flaw to examine some of the kernel's heap memory. CVE-2012-6549 Mathias Krause discovered a flaw in xfrmuser in the Linux kernel. A local attacker with NETADMIN...

Ubuntu 12.10 : linux vulnerabilities (USN-1813-1)

Mathias Krause discovered an information leak in the Linux kernel's UDF file system implementation. A local user could exploit this flaw to examine some of the kernel's heap memory. CVE-2012-6548 Mathias Krause discovered an information leak in the Linux kernel's ISO 9660 CDROM file system driver...

Ubuntu 13.04 : linux vulnerabilities (USN-1815-1)

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 Andy Lutomirski discovered a privilege escalation in the Linux kernel's user namespaces. A local user could exploit th...

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS : linux vulnerabilities (USN-1809-1)

Mathias Krause discovered an information leak in the Linux kernel's UDF file system implementation. A local user could exploit this flaw to examine some of the kernel's heap memory. CVE-2012-6548 Mathias Krause discovered an information leak in the Linux kernel's ISO 9660 CDROM file system driver...

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS : linux vulnerabilities (USN-1793-1)

Emese Revfy discovered that in the Linux kernel signal handlers could leak address information across an exec, making it possible to by pass ASLR Address Space Layout Randomization. A local user could use this flaw to by pass ASLR to reliably deliver an exploit payload that would otherwise be...

Ubuntu 12.10 : linux vulnerabilities (USN-1769-1)

Andrew Cooper of Citrix reported a Xen stack corruption in the Linux kernel. An unprivileged user in a 32bit PVOPS guest can cause the guest kernel to crash, or operate erroneously. CVE-2013-0190 A failure to validate input was discovered in the Linux kernel's Xen netback network backend driver. ...

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS : linux vulnerabilities (USN-1767-1)

Andrew Cooper of Citrix reported a Xen stack corruption in the Linux kernel. An unprivileged user in a 32bit PVOPS guest can cause the guest kernel to crash, or operate erroneously. CVE-2013-0190 A failure to validate input was discovered in the Linux kernel's Xen netback network backend driver. ...

Ubuntu 12.10 : linux vulnerabilities (USN-1750-1)

Mathias Krause discovered a bounds checking error for netlink messages requesting SOCKDIAGBYFAMILY. An unprivileged local user could exploit this flaw to crash the system or run programs as an administrator. Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly...

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS : linux vulnerabilities (USN-1696-1)

Jon Howell reported a flaw in the Linux kernel's KVM Kernel-based virtual machine subsystem's handling of the XSAVE feature. On hosts, using qemu userspace, without the XSAVE feature an unprivileged local attacker could exploit this flaw to crash the system. CVE-2012-4461 A flaw was discovered in...

Ubuntu 11.10 : linux vulnerabilities (USN-1689-1)

Jon Howell reported a flaw in the Linux kernel's KVM Kernel-based virtual machine subsystem's handling of the XSAVE feature. On hosts, using qemu userspace, without the XSAVE feature an unprivileged local attacker could exploit this flaw to crash the system. CVE-2012-4461 A flaw was discovered in...

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS : linux vulnerabilities (USN-1644-1)

Brad Spengler discovered a flaw in the Linux kernel's uname system call. An unprivileged user could exploit this flaw to read kernel stack memory. CVE-2012-0957 Rodrigo Freire discovered a flaw in the Linux kernel's TCP illinois congestion control algorithm. A local attacker could use this to cau...

Ubuntu 11.10 : linux vulnerabilities (USN-1607-1)

Vadim Ponomarev discovered a flaw in the Linux kernel causing a reference leak when PID namespaces are used. A remote attacker could exploit this flaw causing a denial of service. CVE-2012-2127 A flaw was found in how the Linux kernel's KVM Kernel-based Virtual Machine subsystem handled MSI Messa...

Ubuntu 10.04 LTS : linux vulnerabilities (USN-1572-1)

Ben Hutchings reported a flaw in the Linux kernel with some network drivers that support TSO TCP segment offload. A local or peer user could exploit this flaw to to cause a denial of service. CVE-2012-3412 Jay Fenlason and Doug Ledford discovered a bug in the Linux kernel implementation of RDS...

Ubuntu 10.04 LTS : linux vulnerabilities (USN-1535-1)

An error was discovered in the Linux kernel's network TUN/TAP device implementation. A local user with access to the TUN/TAP interface which is not available to unprivileged users until granted by a root user could exploit this flaw to crash the system or potential gain administrative privileges...

Ubuntu 11.10 : linux vulnerabilities (USN-1533-1)

An error was discovered in the Linux kernel's network TUN/TAP device implementation. A local user with access to the TUN/TAP interface which is not available to unprivileged users until granted by a root user could exploit this flaw to crash the system or potential gain administrative privileges...

Ubuntu 8.04 LTS : linux vulnerabilities (USN-1507-1)

A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's KVM Kernel Virtual Machine virtual cpu setup. An unprivileged local user could exploit this flaw to crash the system leading to a denial of service. CVE-2012-1601 An error was found in the Linux kernel's IPv6 netfilter when connection tracking is enabled. A...

Ubuntu 11.04 : linux vulnerabilities (USN-1488-1)

Stephan Mueller reported a flaw in the Linux kernel's dl2k network driver's handling of ioctls. An unprivileged local user could leverage this flaw to cause a denial of service. CVE-2012-2313 Timo Warns reported multiple flaws in the Linux kernel's hfsplus filesystem. An unprivileged local user...

Ubuntu 10.04 LTS : linux vulnerabilities (USN-1445-1)

A flaw was found in the Linux's kernels ext4 file system when mounted with a journal. A local, unprivileged user could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service. CVE-2011-4086 A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's KVM Kernel Virtual Machine virtual cpu setup. An unprivileged local user coul...

Ubuntu 11.04 : linux vulnerabilities (USN-1422-1)

Sasha Levin discovered a flaw in the permission checking for device assignments requested via the kvm ioctl in the Linux kernel. A local user could use this flaw to crash the system causing a denial of service. CVE-2011-4347 Stephan Barwolf discovered a flaw in the KVM kernel-based virtual machin...

Ubuntu 10.04 LTS : linux-lts-backport-maverick vulnerabilities (USN-1387-1)

Aristide Fattori and Roberto Paleari reported a flaw in the Linux kernel's handling of IPv4 icmp packets. A remote user could exploit this to cause a denial of service. CVE-2011-1927 A flaw was found in the Linux Ethernet bridge's handling of IGMP Internet Group Management Protocol packets. An...