USN-2240-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Pinkie Pie discovered a flaw in the Linux kernel's futex subsystem. An unprivileged local user could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service system crash or gain administrative privileges. CVE-2014-3153 An information leak was discovered in the netfilter subsystem of the Linux kernel. An...

USN-2238-1: Linux kernel (Raring HWE) vulnerabilities

Pinkie Pie discovered a flaw in the Linux kernel's futex subsystem. An unprivileged local user could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service system crash or gain administrative privileges. CVE-2014-3153 A flaw was discovered in the Linux kernel's IPC reference counting. An unprivileged loc...

USN-2237-1: Linux kernel (Quantal HWE) vulnerability

Pinkie Pie discovered a flaw in the Linux kernel's futex subsystem. An unprivileged local user could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service system crash or gain administrative privileges...

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...

Race condition

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...

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...

CVE-2014-3940

CVE-2014-3940 affects the Linux kernel up to version 3.14.5, where hugetlb handling during hugepage migration can enable local users to trigger a race condition that may lead to memory corruption or a system crash. The issue is tied to the code paths in fs/proc/task_mmu.c and mm/mempolicy.c and i...

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...

UBUNTU-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...

SOL15319 - Linux kernel TTY vulnerability CVE-2014-0196

The nttywrite function in drivers/tty/ntty.c in the Linux kernel through 3.14.3 does not properly manage tty driver access in the "LECHO & !OPOST" case, which allows local users to cause a denial of service memory corruption and system crash or gain privileges by triggering a race condition...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-2224-1)

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...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-2226-1)

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...

[USN-2228-1] Linux kernel vulnerabilities

========================================================================== Ubuntu Security Notice USN-2228-1 May 27, 2014 linux vulnerabilities ========================================================================== A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives: - Ubunt...

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS : linux-lts-raring vulnerabilities (USN-2224-1)

Matthew Daley reported an information leak in the floppy disk driver of the Linux kernel. An unprivileged local user could exploit this flaw to obtain potentially sensitive information from kernel memory. CVE-2014-1738 Matthew Daley reported a flaw in the handling of ioctl commands by the floppy...

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS : linux-lts-quantal vulnerabilities (USN-2223-1)

Matthew Daley reported an information leak in the floppy disk driver of the Linux kernel. An unprivileged local user could exploit this flaw to obtain potentially sensitive information from kernel memory. CVE-2014-1738 Matthew Daley reported a flaw in the handling of ioctl commands by the floppy...

kernel: net: ping: refcount issue in ping_init_sock() function

A use-after-free flaw was found in the way the pinginitsock function of the Linux kernel handled the groupinfo reference counter. A local, unprivileged user could use this flaw to crash the system or, potentially, escalate their privileges on the system...

kernel: ath9k: tid->sched race in ath_tx_aggr_sleep()

It was found that a remote attacker could use a race condition flaw in the athtxaggrsleep function to crash the system by creating large network traffic on the system's Atheros 9k wireless network adapter...

kernel: net: rds: dereference of a NULL device in rds_iw_laddr_check()

A NULL pointer dereference flaw was found in the rdsiwladdrcheck function in the Linux kernel's implementation of Reliable Datagram Sockets RDS. A local, unprivileged user could use this flaw to crash the system...

USN-2228-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Matthew Daley reported an information leak in the floppy disk driver of the Linux kernel. An unprivileged local user could exploit this flaw to obtain potentially sensitive information from kernel memory. CVE-2014-1738 Matthew Daley reported a flaw in the handling of ioctl commands by the floppy...

USN-2224-1: Linux kernel (Raring HWE) vulnerabilities

Matthew Daley reported an information leak in the floppy disk driver of the Linux kernel. An unprivileged local user could exploit this flaw to obtain potentially sensitive information from kernel memory. CVE-2014-1738 Matthew Daley reported a flaw in the handling of ioctl commands by the floppy...