Security update for the Linux Kernel (important)

The Linux kernel was updated to fix various bugs and security issues. Following security issues were fixed: - CVE-2014-8173: A NULL pointer dereference flaw was found in the way the Linux kernels madvise MADVWILLNEED functionality handled page table locking. A local, unprivileged user could have...

Linux Kernel 3.133.14 (Ubuntu) - splice() System Call Local Denial of Service

Linux Kernel 3.133.14 Ubuntu - splice System Call Local Denial of Service / ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- cve-2014-7822poc.c The implementation of certain splicewrite file operations in the Linux kernel before 3.16 does not...

Linux Kernel 3.13/3.14 (Ubuntu) - 'splice()' System Call Local Denial of Service

/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- cve-2014-7822poc.c The implementation of certain splicewrite file operations in the Linux kernel before 3.16 does not enforce a restriction on the maximum size of a single file which allows loca...

CVE-2015-1117

The 1 setreuid and 2 setregid system-call implementations in the kernel in Apple iOS before 8.3, Apple OS X before 10.10.3, and Apple TV before 7.2 do not properly perform privilege drops, which makes it easier for attackers to execute code with unintended user or group privileges via a crafted a...

CVE-2015-1099

Race condition in the setreuid system-call implementation in the kernel in Apple iOS before 8.3, Apple OS X before 10.10.3, and Apple TV before 7.2 allows attackers to cause a denial of service via a crafted app...

Code injection

The 1 setreuid and 2 setregid system-call implementations in the kernel in Apple iOS before 8.3, Apple OS X before 10.10.3, and Apple TV before 7.2 do not properly perform privilege drops, which makes it easier for attackers to execute code with unintended user or group privileges via a crafted a...

CVE-2015-1117

The 1 setreuid and 2 setregid system-call implementations in the kernel in Apple iOS before 8.3, Apple OS X before 10.10.3, and Apple TV before 7.2 do not properly perform privilege drops, which makes it easier for attackers to execute code with unintended user or group privileges via a crafted a...

CVE-2015-2830

arch/x86/kernel/entry64.S in the Linux kernel before 3.19.2 does not prevent the TSCOMPAT flag from reaching a user-mode task, which might allow local users to bypass the seccomp or audit protection mechanism via a crafted application that uses the 1 fork or 2 close system call, as demonstrated b...

UBUNTU-CVE-2015-2830

arch/x86/kernel/entry64.S in the Linux kernel before 3.19.2 does not prevent the TSCOMPAT flag from reaching a user-mode task, which might allow local users to bypass the seccomp or audit protection mechanism via a crafted application that uses the 1 fork or 2 close system call, as demonstrated b...

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : Linux kernel vulnerabilities (USN-2544-1)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-2544-1 advisory. Eric Windisch discovered flaw in how the Linux kernel's XFS file system replaces remote attributes. A local access with access to an XFS file system coul...

USN-2544-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Eric Windisch discovered flaw in how the Linux kernel's XFS file system replaces remote attributes. A local access with access to an XFS file system could exploit this flaw to escalate their privileges. CVE-2015-0274 A flaw was discovered in the automatic loading of modules in the crypto subsyste...

USN-2543-1: Linux kernel (Trusty HWE) vulnerabilities

Eric Windisch discovered flaw in how the Linux kernel's XFS file system replaces remote attributes. A local access with access to an XFS file system could exploit this flaw to escalate their privileges. CVE-2015-0274 A flaw was discovered in the automatic loading of modules in the crypto subsyste...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : kernel (MDVSA-2015:057)

Multiple vulnerabilities has been found and corrected in the Linux kernel : The Crypto API in the Linux kernel before 3.18.5 allows local users to load arbitrary kernel modules via a bind system call for an AFALG socket with a parenthesized module template expression in the salgname field, as...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: kernel-rt security, bug fix, and enhancement update

Updated kernel-rt packages that fix multiple security issues, several bugs, and add various enhancements are now available for Red Hat Enterprise MRG 2.5. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having Important security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base scores, whic...

kernel: splice: lack of generic write checks

A flaw was found in the way the Linux kernel's splice system call validated its parameters. On certain file systems, a local, unprivileged user could use this flaw to write past the maximum file size, and thus crash the system...

CVE-2014-7822

The implementation of certain splicewrite file operations in the Linux kernel before 3.16 does not enforce a restriction on the maximum size of a single file, which allows local users to cause a denial of service system crash or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted splice system...

Information disclosure

The implementation of certain splicewrite file operations in the Linux kernel before 3.16 does not enforce a restriction on the maximum size of a single file, which allows local users to cause a denial of service system crash or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted splice system...

UBUNTU-CVE-2014-8173

The pmdnoneortranshugeorclearbad function in include/asm-generic/pgtable.h in the Linux kernel before 3.13 on NUMA systems does not properly determine whether a Page Middle Directory PMD entry is a transparent huge-table entry, which allows local users to cause a denial of service NULL pointer...

CVE-2014-7822

The implementation of certain splicewrite file operations in the Linux kernel before 3.16 does not enforce a restriction on the maximum size of a single file, which allows local users to cause a denial of service system crash or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted splice system...

CVE-2014-8173

The pmdnoneortranshugeorclearbad function in include/asm-generic/pgtable.h in the Linux kernel before 3.13 on NUMA systems does not properly determine whether a Page Middle Directory PMD entry is a transparent huge-table entry, which allows local users to cause a denial of service NULL pointer...