Denial Of Service (DoS)

Linux kernel is vulnerable to denial of service. The AIO interface permitted reading or writing 2 GB of data or more in a single chunk, which could lead to an integer overflow in the aiosetupsinglevector function in fs/aio.c when applied to certain filesystems, socket or device types...

Important kernel security update: CVE-2018-10675 and other issues; new kernel 2.6.32-042stab131.1; Virtuozzo 6.0 Update 12 Hotfix 28 (6.0.12-3709)

This update provides a new kernel 2.6.32-042stab131.1 for Virtuozzo 6.0 that is a rebase to the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.10 kernel 2.6.32-754.el6. The new kernel introduces security and stability fixes. Vulnerability id: CVE-2018-10675 The dogetmempolicy function in 'mm/mempolicy.c' in the Linu...

RHEL 6 : kernel (RHSA-2018:1854)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 6 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2018:1854 advisory. The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system. Security Fixes: An industry-wide issue was found in th...

USN-2970-1 linux-lts-vivid vulnerabilities

Ralf Spenneberg discovered that the Aiptek Tablet USB device driver in the Linux kernel did not properly validate the endpoints reported by the device. An attacker with physical access could cause a denial of service system crash. CVE-2015-7515 Ben Hawkes discovered that the Linux kernel's AIO...

USN-2968-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Ralf Spenneberg discovered that the Aiptek Tablet USB device driver in the Linux kernel did not properly validate the endpoints reported by the device. An attacker with physical access could cause a denial of service system crash. CVE-2015-7515 Ben Hawkes discovered that the Linux kernel's AIO...

USN-2968-1 linux vulnerabilities

Ralf Spenneberg discovered that the Aiptek Tablet USB device driver in the Linux kernel did not properly validate the endpoints reported by the device. An attacker with physical access could cause a denial of service system crash. CVE-2015-7515 Ben Hawkes discovered that the Linux kernel's AIO...

Debian Security Advisory DSA 3503-1 (linux - security update)

Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Linux kernel that may lead to a privilege escalation, denial of service, information leak or data loss. CVE-2013-4312 Tetsuo Handa discovered that users can use pipes queued on local Unix sockets to allocate an unfair share of kernel memory,...