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...

Ubuntu 10.04 LTS : linux vulnerabilities (USN-1389-1)

Paolo Bonzini discovered a flaw in Linux's handling of the SGIO ioctl command. A local user, or user in a VM could exploit this flaw to bypass restrictions and gain read/write access to all data on the affected block device. CVE-2011-4127 A flaw was found in KVM's Programmable Interval Timer PIT...

Ubuntu 11.04 : linux vulnerabilities (USN-1380-1)

A flaw was discovered in the TOMOYO LSM's handling of mount system calls. An unprivileged user could oops the system causing a denial of service. CVE-2011-2518 A bug was discovered in the Linux kernel's calculation of OOM Out of memory scores, that would result in the wrong process being killed. ...

Ubuntu 10.10 : linux vulnerabilities (USN-1379-1)

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...

Ubuntu 11.10 : linux vulnerabilities (USN-1363-1)

A bug was discovered in the Linux kernel's calculation of OOM Out of memory scores, that would result in the wrong process being killed. A user could use this to kill the process with the highest OOM score, even if that process belongs to another user or the system. CVE-2011-4097 A flaw was found...

Ubuntu 11.04 : linux vulnerabilities (USN-1362-1)

Han-Wen Nienhuys reported a flaw in the FUSE kernel module. A local user who can mount a FUSE file system could cause a denial of service. CVE-2011-3353 A flaw was found in KVM's Programmable Interval Timer PIT. When a virtual interrupt control is not available a local user could use this to caus...

Ubuntu 10.10 : linux vulnerabilities (USN-1341-1)

Peter Huewe discovered an information leak in the handling of reading security-related TPM data. A local, unprivileged user could read the results of a previous TPM command. CVE-2011-1162 Dan Rosenberg reported an error in the old ABI compatibility layer of ARM kernels. A local attacker could...

Ubuntu 11.04 : linux vulnerabilities (USN-1312-1)

A bug was discovered in the XFS filesystem's handling of pathnames. A local attacker could exploit this to crash the system, leading to a denial of service, or gain root privileges. CVE-2011-4077 Nick Bowler discovered the kernel GHASH message digest algorithm incorrectly handled error conditions...

Ubuntu 10.10 : linux vulnerabilities (USN-1293-1)

A bug was discovered in the XFS filesystem's handling of pathnames. A local attacker could exploit this to crash the system, leading to a denial of service, or gain root privileges. CVE-2011-4077 Nick Bowler discovered the kernel GHASH message digest algorithm incorrectly handled error conditions...

New Approach to automatically detecting bugs and vulnerabilities in Linux

New Approach to automatically detecting bugs and vulnerabilities in Linux Australian researcher Silvio Cesare , PhD student at Deakin University has released a tool capable of automatically detecting bugs and vulnerabilities in embedded Linux libraries. Developers may "embed" or "clone" code from...