DEBIAN-CVE-2014-9066

Xen 4.4.x and earlier, when using a large number of VCPUs, does not properly handle read and write locks, which allows local x86 guest users to cause a denial of service write denial or NMI watchdog timeout and host crash via a large number of read requests, a different vulnerability than...

CVE-2014-9065

common/spinlock.c in Xen 4.4.x and earlier does not properly handle read and write locks, which allows local x86 guest users to cause a denial of service write denial or NMI watchdog timeout and host crash via a large number of read requests, a different vulnerability to CVE-2014-9066...

FreeBSD : Xorg server -- two vulnerabilities in X server lock handling code (8441957c-f9b4-11e0-a78a-bcaec565249c)

Matthieu Herrb reports : It is possible to deduce if a file exists or not by exploiting the way that Xorg creates its lock files. This is caused by the fact that the X server is behaving differently if the lock file already exists as a symbolic link pointing to an existing or non-existing file. I...

Xorg server -- two vulnerabilities in X server lock handling code

Matthieu Herrb reports: It is possible to deduce if a file exists or not by exploiting the way that Xorg creates its lock files. This is caused by the fact that the X server is behaving differently if the lock file already exists as a symbolic link pointing to an existing or non-existing file. It...

USN-416-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Mark Dowd discovered that the netfilter iptables module did not correcly handle fragmented IPv6 packets. By sending specially crafted packets, a remote attacker could exploit this to bypass firewall rules. This has has already been fixed for Ubuntu 6.10 in USN-395-1; this is the corresponding fix...