DEBIAN-CVE-2014-3940

The Linux kernel through 3.14.5 does not properly consider the presence of hugetlb entries, which allows local users to cause a denial of service memory corruption or system crash by accessing certain memory locations, as demonstrated by triggering a race condition via numamaps read operations...

Kernel: tmpfs: fix use-after-free of mempolicy object

Use-after-free vulnerability in the shmemremountfs function in mm/shmem.c in the Linux kernel before 3.7.10 allows local users to gain privileges or cause a denial of service system crash by remounting a tmpfs filesystem without specifying a required mpol aka mempolicy mount option...

libvirt security, bug fix, and enhancement update

libvirt-0.9.10-21.0.1.el6 - Replace docs/et.png in tarball with blank image libvirt-0.9.10-21.el6 - qemu: Rollback on used USB devices rhbz743671 - qemu: Dont delete USB device on failed qemuPrepareHostdevUSBDevices rhbz743671 - Revert 'rpc: Discard non-blocking calls only when necessary'...

panic caused by set_mempolicy with MPOL_BIND

The Linux kernel 2.6.9 before 2.6.9-67 in Red Hat Enterprise Linux RHEL 4 on Itanium ia64 does not properly handle page faults during NUMA memory access, which allows local users to cause a denial of service panic via invalid arguments to setmempolicy in an MPOLBIND operation...

PT-2004-3689 · Linux +1 · Linux Kernel +1

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Linux kernel versions prior to 2.6.x Description: The issue is related to multiple vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel, which can lead to a disruption of confidentiality, integrity, and availability of protected information. These...