gnome-shell: lockscreen bypass with printscreen key

It was found that the Gnome shell did not disable the Print Screen key when the screen was locked. This could allow an attacker with physical access to a system with a locked screen to crash the screen-locking application by creating a large amount of screenshots...

kernel: net: sctp: NULL pointer dereference in af->from_addr_param on malformed packet

A flaw was found in the way the Linux kernel's SCTP implementation validated INIT chunks when performing Address Configuration Change ASCONF. A remote attacker could use this flaw to crash the system by sending a specially crafted SCTP packet to trigger a NULL pointer dereference on the system...

kernel: ipc: ipc_rcu_putref refcount races

A flaw was found in the way the ipcrcuputref function in the Linux kernel's IPC implementation handled reference counter decrementing. A local, unprivileged user could use this flaw to trigger an Out of Memory OOM condition and, potentially, crash the system...

Buffer overflow

Off-by-one error in the ecryptfsdecodefromfilename function in fs/ecryptfs/crypto.c in the eCryptfs subsystem in the Linux kernel before 3.18.2 allows local users to cause a denial of service buffer overflow and system crash or possibly gain privileges via a crafted filename...

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : Linux kernel (Utopic HWE) vulnerabilities (USN-2517-1)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-2517-1 advisory. A flaw was discovered in the Kernel Virtual Machine's KVM emulation of the SYSTENTER instruction when the guest OS does not initialize the SYSENTER MSRs....

Schneider Electric OFS Server Vulnerability (Update A)

OVERVIEW --------- Begin Update A Part 1 of 4 -------- This updated advisory is a follow-up to the original advisory titled ICSA-15-141-01 Schneider Electric OFS Server Vulnerability that was published May 21, 2015, on the NCCIC/ICS-CERT web site. Ivan Sanchez from Nullcode Team has identified tw...

Moderate: Red Hat Security Advisory: kernel security and bug fix update

Updated kernel packages that fix one security issue and several bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having Moderate security impact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, ...

CVE-2015-1465

The IPv4 implementation in the Linux kernel before 3.18.8 does not properly consider the length of the Read-Copy Update RCU grace period for redirecting lookups in the absence of caching, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service memory consumption or system crash via a flood of...

USN-2493-1: Linux kernel (OMAP4) vulnerabilities

Andy Lutomirski discovered an information leak in the Linux kernel's Thread Local Storage TLS implementation allowing users to bypass the espfix to obtain information that could be used to bypass the Address Space Layout Randomization ASLR protection mechanism. A local user could exploit this fla...

USN-2492-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Andy Lutomirski discovered an information leak in the Linux kernel's Thread Local Storage TLS implementation allowing users to bypass the espfix to obtain information that could be used to bypass the Address Space Layout Randomization ASLR protection mechanism. A local user could exploit this fla...

USN-2490-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Andy Lutomirski discovered an information leak in the Linux kernel's Thread Local Storage TLS implementation allowing users to bypass the espfix to obtain information that could be used to bypass the Address Space Layout Randomization ASLR protection mechanism. A local user could exploit this fla...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-2493-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2015 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...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-2492-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2015 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...

kernel: sctp: skb_over_panic when receiving malformed ASCONF chunks

A flaw was found in the way the Linux kernel's Stream Control Transmission Protocol SCTP implementation handled malformed Address Configuration Change Chunks ASCONF. A remote attacker could use either of these flaws to crash the system...

kernel: net: sctp: fix panic on duplicate ASCONF chunks

A flaw was found in the way the Linux kernel's Stream Control Transmission Protocol SCTP implementation handled duplicate Address Configuration Change Chunks ASCONF. A remote attacker could use either of these flaws to crash the system...

CentOS 7 : kernel (CESA-2015:0102)

Updated kernel packages that fix multiple security issues and several bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having Important security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base scores, which give detailed severity...

Scientific Linux Security Update : kernel on SL6.x i386/srpm/x86_64 (20150127)

A flaw was found in the way the Linux kernel's SCTP implementation validated INIT chunks when performing Address Configuration Change ASCONF. A remote attacker could use this flaw to crash the system by sending a specially crafted SCTP packet to trigger a NULL pointer dereference on the system...

kernel: net: sctp: NULL pointer dereference in af->from_addr_param on malformed packet

A flaw was found in the way the Linux kernel's SCTP implementation validated INIT chunks when performing Address Configuration Change ASCONF. A remote attacker could use this flaw to crash the system by sending a specially crafted SCTP packet to trigger a NULL pointer dereference on the system...

Kernel: ALSA: control: integer overflow in id.index & id.numid

An integer overflow flaw was found in the way the Linux kernel's Advanced Linux Sound Architecture ALSA implementation handled user controls. A local, privileged user could use this flaw to crash the system...

Vorbis Tools Denial of Service Vulnerability (CNVD-2015-00652)

vorbis-tools is a set of Ogg an audio compression format vorbis tools. Vorbis Tools suffers from a local denial of service vulnerability, which can be exploited by local attackers to cause a system crash and deny service to legitimate users...