Android IMemory Native Interface Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

Android is a Linux-based open source operating system developed by Google and the Open Handheld Alliance OHA, and the IMemory Native Interface is a memory-sharing interface that uses Ashmem Anonymous Shared Memory Driver. A boost vulnerability exists in Android's IMemory Native Interface. A local...

CVE-2015-5053

The host memory mapping path feature in the NVIDIA GPU graphics driver R346 before 346.87 and R352 before 352.41 for Linux and R352 before 352.46 for GRID vGPU and vSGA does not properly restrict access to third-party device IO memory, which allows attackers to gain privileges, cause a denial of...

kernel: ipc/shm.c: reading uninitialized stack memory

The copyshmidtouser function in ipc/shm.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.37-rc1 does not initialize a certain structure, which allows local users to obtain potentially sensitive information from kernel stack memory via vectors related to the shmctl system call and the "old shm interface."...