USN-2073-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Hannes Frederic Sowa discovered a flaw in the Linux kernel's UDP Fragmentation Offload UFO. An unprivileged local user could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service system crash or possibly gain administrative privileges. CVE-2013-4470 Multiple integer overflow flaws were discovered in the...

USN-2068-1: Linux kernel (Quantal HWE) vulnerabilities

Dave Jones and Vince Weaver reported a flaw in the Linux kernel's per event subsystem that allows normal users to enable function tracing. An unprivileged local user could exploit this flaw to obtain potentially sensitive information from the kernel. CVE-2013-2930 Stephan Mueller reported an erro...

USN-2066-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

A flaw was discovered in the Linux kernel's dm snapshot facility. A remote authenticated user could exploit this flaw to obtain sensitive information or modify/corrupt data. CVE-2013-4299 Hannes Frederic Sowa discovered a flaw in the Linux kernel's UDP Fragmentation Offload UFO. An unprivileged...

USN-2065-1: Linux kernel (EC2) vulnerabilities

Stephan Mueller reported an error in the Linux kernel's ansi cprng random number generator. This flaw makes it easier for a local attacker to break cryptographic protections. CVE-2013-4345 A flaw was discovered in the Linux kernel's IP Virtual Server IPVS support. A local user with the CAPNETADMI...

USN-2064-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Stephan Mueller reported an error in the Linux kernel's ansi cprng random number generator. This flaw makes it easier for a local attacker to break cryptographic protections. CVE-2013-4345 A flaw was discovered in the Linux kernel's IP Virtual Server IPVS support. A local user with the CAPNETADMI...

UBUNTU-CVE-2013-2207

ptchown in GNU C Library aka glibc or libc6 before 2.18 does not properly check permissions for tty files, which allows local users to change the permission on the files and obtain access to arbitrary pseudo-terminals by leveraging a FUSE file system...

Oracle Linux 5 : kernel (ELSA-2011-0927)

The remote Oracle Linux 5 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2011-0927 advisory. - Revert: xen hvm: svm support cleanups Andrew Jones 703715 702657 CVE-2011-1780 - Revert: xen hvm: secure svmcraccess Andrew Jones 703715 702657...

CVE-2013-0981

The IOUSBDeviceFamily driver in the USB implementation in the kernel in Apple iOS before 6.1.3 and Apple TV before 5.2.1 accesses pipe object pointers that originated in userspace, which allows local users to gain privileges via crafted code...

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS : linux vulnerabilities (USN-1696-1)

Jon Howell reported a flaw in the Linux kernel's KVM Kernel-based virtual machine subsystem's handling of the XSAVE feature. On hosts, using qemu userspace, without the XSAVE feature an unprivileged local attacker could exploit this flaw to crash the system. CVE-2012-4461 A flaw was discovered in...

Linux stack corruption in xen_failsafe_callback for 32bit PVOPS guests.

ISSUE DESCRIPTION xenfailsafecallback incorrectly sets up its stack if an iret fault is injected by the hypervisor. IMPACT Malicious or buggy unprivileged userspace can cause the guest kernel to crash, or operate erroneously. VULNERABLE SYSTEMS All 32bit PVOPS versions of Linux are affected, sinc...

USN-1689-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Jon Howell reported a flaw in the Linux kernel's KVM Kernel-based virtual machine subsystem's handling of the XSAVE feature. On hosts, using qemu userspace, without the XSAVE feature an unprivileged local attacker could exploit this flaw to crash the system. CVE-2012-4461 A flaw was discovered in...

UBUNTU-CVE-2012-4461

The KVM subsystem in the Linux kernel before 3.6.9, when running on hosts that use qemu userspace without XSAVE, allows local users to cause a denial of service kernel OOPS by using the KVMSETSREGS ioctl to set the X86CR4OSXSAVE bit in the guest cr4 register, then calling the KVMRUN ioctl...

USN-1554-1: Linux kernel vulnerability

A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's Reliable Datagram Sockets RDS protocol implementation. A local, unprivileged user could use this flaw to cause a denial of service. CVE-2012-2372 Mathias Krause discovered an information leak in the Linux kernel's TUN/TAP device driver. A local user could...

Scientific Linux Security Update : fuse on SL6.x i386/x86_64

FUSE Filesystem in Userspace can implement a fully functional file system in a user-space program. These packages provide the mount utility, fusermount, the tool used to mount FUSE file systems. Multiple flaws were found in the way fusermount handled the mounting and unmounting of directories whe...

Ubuntu Update for linux-fsl-imx51 USN-1204-1

Ubuntu Update for Linux kernel vulnerabilities USN-1204-1 OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: gbubuntuUSN12041.nasl 7964 2017-12-01 07:32:11Z santu $ Ubuntu Update for linux-fsl-imx51 USN-1204-1 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2011 Greenbone Networks GmbH,...

Ubuntu Update for linux-mvl-dove USN-1159-1

Ubuntu Update for Linux kernel vulnerabilities USN-1159-1 OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: gbubuntuUSN11591.nasl 7964 2017-12-01 07:32:11Z santu $ Ubuntu Update for linux-mvl-dove USN-1159-1 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2011 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.n...

Ubuntu 10.04 LTS / 10.10 : linux, linux-ec2 vulnerabilities (USN-1054-1)

Gleb Napatov discovered that KVM did not correctly check certain privileged operations. A local attacker with access to a guest kernel could exploit this to crash the host system, leading to a denial of service. CVE-2010-0435 Dan Rosenberg discovered that the Linux kernel TIPC implementation...

[SECURITY] Fedora 13 Update: udev-153-5.fc13

The udev package contains an implementation of devfs in userspace using sysfs and netlink...

DEBIAN-CVE-2010-3386

usttrace in LTTng Userspace Tracer aka UST 0.7 places a zero-length directory name in the LDLIBRARYPATH, which allows local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse shared library in the current working directory...

Directory traversal

usttrace in LTTng Userspace Tracer aka UST 0.7 places a zero-length directory name in the LDLIBRARYPATH, which allows local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse shared library in the current working directory...