USN-2337-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

A flaw was discovered in the Linux kernel virtual machine's kvm validation of interrupt requests irq. A guest OS user could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service host OS crash. CVE-2014-0155 Andy Lutomirski discovered a flaw in the authorization of netlink socket operations when a socket...

Kernel: ALSA: control: protect user controls against races & memory disclosure

An information leak flaw was found in the way the Linux kernel's Advanced Linux Sound Architecture ALSA implementation handled access of the user control's state. A local, privileged user could use this flaw to leak kernel memory to user space...

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...

Kernel: ALSA: control: use-after-free in replacing user controls

A use-after-free 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...

RHEL 5 : kernel (RHSA-2007:0993)

Updated kernel packages that fix various security issues in the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 kernel are now available. This update has been rated as having important security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team. The Linux kernel handles the basic functions of the operating system. These ne...

ALSA memory disclosure flaw

The sndmemprocread function in sound/core/memalloc.c in the Advanced Linux Sound Architecture ALSA in the Linux kernel before 2.6.22.8 does not return the correct write size, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information kernel memory contents via a small count argument, as demonstrate...

RHEL 4 : kernel (RHSA-2007:0939)

Updated kernel packages that fix various security issues in the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 kernel are now available. This update has been rated as having important security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team. The Linux kernel is the core of the operating system. These updated kernel...