Amazon Linux AMI : kernel (ALAS-2014-455)

The sctpprocessparam function in net/sctp/smmakechunk.c in the SCTP implementation in the Linux kernel before 3.17.4, when ASCONF is used, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service NULL pointer dereference and system crash via a malformed INIT chunk. CVE-2014-7841 The pivotroot...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : kernel (MDVSA-2014:230)

Multiple vulnerabilities has been found and corrected in the Linux kernel : The WRMSR processing functionality in the KVM subsystem in the Linux kernel through 3.17.2 does not properly handle the writing of a non-canonical address to a model-specific register, which allows guest OS users to cause...

USN-2419-1: Linux kernel (Trusty HWE) vulnerabilities

A flaw was discovered in how the Linux kernel's KVM Kernel Virtual Machine subsystem handles the CR4 control register at VM entry on Intel processors. A local host OS user can exploit this to cause a denial of service kill arbitrary processes, or system disruption by leveraging /dev/kvm access...

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS : linux-lts-trusty vulnerabilities (USN-2419-1)

A flaw was discovered in how the Linux kernel's KVM Kernel Virtual Machine subsystem handles the CR4 control register at VM entry on Intel processors. A local host OS user can exploit this to cause a denial of service kill arbitrary processes, or system disruption by leveraging /dev/kvm access...

Updated kernel-tmb packages fix security vulnerabilities

This kernel-tmb update is based on upstream -longterm 3.10.58 and fixes the following security issues: The kvmiommumappages function in virt/kvm/iommu.c in the Linux kernel through 3.16.1 miscalculates the number of pages during the handling of a mapping failure, which allows guest OS users to 1...

DEBIAN-CVE-2014-7970

The pivotroot implementation in fs/namespace.c in the Linux kernel through 3.17 does not properly interact with certain locations of a chroot directory, which allows local users to cause a denial of service mount-tree loop via . dot values in both arguments to the pivotroot system call...

Code injection

The pivotroot implementation in fs/namespace.c in the Linux kernel through 3.17 does not properly interact with certain locations of a chroot directory, which allows local users to cause a denial of service mount-tree loop via . dot values in both arguments to the pivotroot system call...

UBUNTU-CVE-2014-7970

The pivotroot implementation in fs/namespace.c in the Linux kernel through 3.17 does not properly interact with certain locations of a chroot directory, which allows local users to cause a denial of service mount-tree loop via . dot values in both arguments to the pivotroot system call...

Linux Kernel 3.16.1 FUSE Privilege Escalation Exploit

FUSE-based exploit that leverages a flaw in fs/namespace.c where it does not properly restrict clearing MNTNODEV, MNTNOSUID, and MNTNOEXEC and changing MNTATIMEMASK during a remount of a bind mount, which allows local users to gain privileges. Linux kernels through 3.16.1 are affected. / FUSE-bas...

[SECURITY] Fedora 20 Update: kdf-4.14.1-1.fc20

KDiskFree displays the available file devices hard drive partitions, floppy and CD/DVD drives, etc. along with information on their capacity, free space, type and mount point...

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS : linux vulnerabilities (USN-2356-1)

Jack Morgenstein reported a flaw in the page handling of the KVM Kerenl Virtual Machine subsystem in the Linux kernel. A guest OS user could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service host OS memory corruption or possibly have other unspecified impact on the host OS. CVE-2014-3601 Chris Evans...

Ubuntu 10.04 LTS : linux vulnerabilities (USN-2354-1)

Chris Evans reported an flaw in the Linux kernel's handling of iso9660 compact disk filesystem images. An attacker who can mount a custom iso9660 image either via a CD/DVD drive or a loopback mount could cause a denial of service system crash or reboot. CVE-2014-5471 Chris Evans reported an flaw ...

USN-2359-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Jack Morgenstein reported a flaw in the page handling of the KVM Kerenl Virtual Machine subsystem in the Linux kernel. A guest OS user could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service host OS memory corruption or possibly have other unspecified impact on the host OS. CVE-2014-3601 Jason...

USN-2356-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Jack Morgenstein reported a flaw in the page handling of the KVM Kerenl Virtual Machine subsystem in the Linux kernel. A guest OS user could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service host OS memory corruption or possibly have other unspecified impact on the host OS. CVE-2014-3601 Chris Evans...

USN-2354-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Chris Evans reported an flaw in the Linux kernel's handling of iso9660 compact disk filesystem images. An attacker who can mount a custom iso9660 image either via a CD/DVD drive or a loopback mount could cause a denial of service system crash or reboot. CVE-2014-5471 Chris Evans reported an flaw ...

CVE-2014-5472

The parserockridgeinodeinternal function in fs/isofs/rock.c in the Linux kernel through 3.16.1 allows local users to cause a denial of service unkillable mount process via a crafted iso9660 image with a self-referential CL entry...

CVE-2014-5472

The CVE-2014-5472 entry affects the Linux kernel up to 3.16.1, where the parse_rock_ridge_inode_internal function in fs/isofs/rock.c is exploitable by local users via a crafted iso9660 image with a self-referential CL entry to cause a denial-of-service (unkillable mount process). Connected Nessus...

Fedora 19 : kernel-3.14.17-100.fc19 (2014-9449)

The 3.14.17 stable update contains a number of important fixes across the tree. Fix CVE-2014-5206, CVE-2014-5207: ro bind mount bypass with namespaces The 3.14.16 stable update contains a number of important fixes across the tree. Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-2318-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2014 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

DEBIAN-CVE-2014-5207

fs/namespace.c in the Linux kernel through 3.16.1 does not properly restrict clearing MNTNODEV, MNTNOSUID, and MNTNOEXEC and changing MNTATIMEMASK during a remount of a bind mount, which allows local users to gain privileges, interfere with backups and auditing on systems that had atime enabled, ...