USN-2114-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Vasily Kulikov reported a flaw in the Linux kernel's implementation of ptrace. An unprivileged local user could exploit this flaw to obtain sensitive information from kernel memory. CVE-2013-2929 A flaw in the handling of memory regions of the kernel virtual machine KVM subsystem was discovered. ...

USN-2108-1: Linux kernel (EC2) vulnerabilities

A flaw was discovered in the Linux kernel's compat ioctls for Adaptec AACRAID scsi raid devices. An unprivileged local user could send administrative commands to these devices potentially compromising the data stored on the device. CVE-2013-6383 mpd reported an information leak in the recvfrom,...

USN-2107-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

A flaw was discovered in the Linux kernel's compat ioctls for Adaptec AACRAID scsi raid devices. An unprivileged local user could send administrative commands to these devices potentially compromising the data stored on the device. CVE-2013-6383 mpd reported an information leak in the recvfrom,...

kernel: security and bugfix update (important)

The Linux kernel was updated to fix various bugs and security issues: - mm/page-writeback.c: do not count anon pages as dirtyable memory reclaim stalls. - mm/page-writeback.c: fix dirtybalancereserve subtraction from dirtyable memory reclaim stalls. - compatsysrecvmmsg X32 fix bnc860993...

Kernel: AACRAID Driver compat IOCTL missing capability check

The aaccompatioctl function in drivers/scsi/aacraid/linit.c in the Linux kernel before 3.11.8 does not require the CAPSYSRAWIO capability, which allows local users to bypass intended access restrictions via a crafted ioctl call...

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS : linux-lts-raring vulnerabilities (USN-2069-1)

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-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...

kernel security and bug fix update

kernel 2.6.18-371.3.1.0.1 - i386: fix MTRR code Zhenzhong Duan orabug 15862649 - oprofile x86, mm: Add getuserpagesfast orabug 14277030 - oprofile export getuserpagesfast function orabug 14277030 - oprofile oprofile, x86: Fix nmi-unsafe callgraph support orabug 14277030 - oprofile oprofile: use...

DEBIAN-CVE-2013-6380

The aacsendrawsrb function in drivers/scsi/aacraid/commctrl.c in the Linux kernel through 3.12.1 does not properly validate a certain size value, which allows local users to cause a denial of service invalid pointer dereference or possibly have unspecified other impact via an FSACTLSENDRAWSRB ioc...

CVE-2013-6383

The aaccompatioctl function in drivers/scsi/aacraid/linit.c in the Linux kernel before 3.11.8 does not require the CAPSYSRAWIO capability, which allows local users to bypass intended access restrictions via a crafted ioctl call...

DEBIAN-CVE-2013-6383

The aaccompatioctl function in drivers/scsi/aacraid/linit.c in the Linux kernel before 3.11.8 does not require the CAPSYSRAWIO capability, which allows local users to bypass intended access restrictions via a crafted ioctl call...

UBUNTU-CVE-2013-6380

The aacsendrawsrb function in drivers/scsi/aacraid/commctrl.c in the Linux kernel through 3.12.1 does not properly validate a certain size value, which allows local users to cause a denial of service invalid pointer dereference or possibly have unspecified other impact via an FSACTLSENDRAWSRB ioc...

UBUNTU-CVE-2013-6383

The aaccompatioctl function in drivers/scsi/aacraid/linit.c in the Linux kernel before 3.11.8 does not require the CAPSYSRAWIO capability, which allows local users to bypass intended access restrictions via a crafted ioctl call...

Oracle Linux 5 kernel update

kernel 2.6.18-371.0.0.0.1 - i386: fix MTRR code Zhenzhong Duan orabug 15862649 - oprofile x86, mm: Add getuserpagesfast orabug 14277030 - oprofile export getuserpagesfast function orabug 14277030 - oprofile oprofile, x86: Fix nmi-unsafe callgraph support orabug 14277030 - oprofile oprofile: use...

kernel security and bug fix update

kernel 2.6.18-348.18.1.0.1 - i386: fix MTRR code Zhenzhong Duan orabug 15862649 - oprofile x86, mm: Add getuserpagesfast orabug 14277030 - oprofile export getuserpagesfast function orabug 14277030 - oprofile oprofile, x86: Fix nmi-unsafe callgraph support orabug 14277030 - oprofile oprofile: use...

kernel security and bug fix update

kernel 2.6.18-348.16.1.0.1 - oprofile x86, mm: Add getuserpagesfast orabug 14277030 - oprofile export getuserpagesfast function orabug 14277030 - oprofile oprofile, x86: Fix nmi-unsafe callgraph support orabug 14277030 - oprofile oprofile: use KMNMI slot for kmapatomic orabug 14277030 - oprofile...

SuSE 11.3 Security Update : Xen (SAT Patch Number 8063)

The Xen hypervisor and toolset has been updated to 4.2.206 to fix various bugs and security issues : The following security issues have been addressed : - Various integer overflows in the ELF loader were fixed. XSA-55. CVE-2013-2194 - Various pointer dereferences issues in the ELF loader were...

Oracle Linux 5 : kernel (ELSA-2010-0704)

The remote Oracle Linux 5 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ELSA-2010-0704 advisory. 2.6.18-194.11.4.0.1.el5 - xen check to see if hypervisor supports memory reservation change Chuck Anderson orabug 7556514 - Add entropy support to igb John...