CVE-2013-1261: Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization

Race condition in win32k.sys in the kernel-mode drivers in Microsoft Windows XP SP2 and SP3, Windows Server 2003 SP2, Windows Vista SP2, Windows Server 2008 SP2, R2, and R2 SP1, and Windows 7 Gold and SP1 allows local users to gain privileges, and consequently read the contents of arbitrary kerne...

CVE-2013-1248: Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization

Race condition in win32k.sys in the kernel-mode drivers in Microsoft Windows XP SP2 and SP3, Windows Server 2003 SP2, Windows Vista SP2, Windows Server 2008 SP2, R2, and R2 SP1, Windows 7 Gold and SP1, Windows 8, Windows Server 2012, and Windows RT allows local users to gain privileges, and...

CVE-2013-1255: Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization

Race condition in win32k.sys in the kernel-mode drivers in Microsoft Windows XP SP2 and SP3, Windows Server 2003 SP2, Windows Vista SP2, Windows Server 2008 SP2, R2, and R2 SP1, and Windows 7 Gold and SP1 allows local users to gain privileges, and consequently read the contents of arbitrary kerne...

CVE-2011-1021

drivers/acpi/debugfs.c in the Linux kernel before 3.0 allows local users to modify arbitrary kernel memory locations by leveraging root privileges to write to the /sys/kernel/debug/acpi/custommethod file. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2010-4347...

Medium: systemtap

Issue Overview: An invalid pointer read flaw was found in the way SystemTap handled malformed debugging information in DWARF format. When SystemTap unprivileged mode was enabled, an unprivileged user in the stapusr group could use this flaw to crash the system or, potentially, read arbitrary kern...

CVE-2010-4258

The doexit function in kernel/exit.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.36.2 does not properly handle a KERNELDS getfs value, which allows local users to bypass intended accessok restrictions, overwrite arbitrary kernel memory locations, and gain privileges by leveraging a 1 BUG, 2 NULL pointer...

CVE-2010-2963

drivers/media/video/v4l2-compat-ioctl32.c in the Video4Linux V4L implementation in the Linux kernel before 2.6.36 on 64-bit platforms does not validate the destination of a memory copy operation, which allows local users to write to arbitrary kernel memory locations, and consequently gain...

Linux Kernel 2.6.36-rc8 - 'RDS Protocol' Local Privilege Escalation

// source: http://www.vsecurity.com/resources/advisory/20101019-1/ / Linux Kernel Copyright 2010 Virtual Security Research, LLC The handling functions for sending and receiving RDS messages use unchecked copyuserinatomic functions without any access checks on user-provided pointers. As a result, ...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : kernel (MDVSA-2010:066)

Some vulnerabilities were discovered and corrected in the Linux 2.6 kernel : The gfs2lock function in the Linux kernel before 2.6.34-rc1-next-20100312, and the gfslock function in the Linux kernel on Red Hat Enterprise Linux RHEL 5 and 6, does not properly remove POSIX locks on files that are...

SuSE Update for kernel SUSE-SA:2010:031

Check for the Version of kernel OpenVAS Vulnerability Test SuSE Update for kernel SUSE-SA:2010:031 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2010 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms ...

CVE-2010-2031

KAVSafe.sys 2010.4.14.609 and earlier, as used in Kingsoft Webshield 3.5.1.2 and earlier, allows local users to overwrite arbitrary kernel memory via a crafted request to IOCTL 0x830020d4 on the KAVSafe device...

CVE-2010-2031: Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

KAVSafe.sys 2010.4.14.609 and earlier, as used in Kingsoft Webshield 3.5.1.2 and earlier, allows local users to overwrite arbitrary kernel memory via a crafted request to IOCTL 0x830020d4 on the KAVSafe device...

CVE-2009-1041: Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

The ktimer feature sys/kern/kerntime.c in FreeBSD 7.0, 7.1, and 7.2 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary kernel memory via an out-of-bounds timer value...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-577-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2009 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: kernel security and bug fix update

Updated kernel packages that fix various security issues and several bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3. This update has been rated as having important security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team. The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux...

Null pointer dereference

The copyfromusermmapsem function in fs/splice.c in the Linux kernel 2.6.22 through 2.6.24 does not validate a certain userspace pointer before dereference, which allow local users to read from arbitrary kernel memory locations...

CVE-2008-0010

The copyfromusermmapsem function in fs/splice.c in the Linux kernel 2.6.22 through 2.6.24 does not validate a certain userspace pointer before dereference, which allow local users to read from arbitrary kernel memory locations...

CVE-2008-0010: Improper Input Validation

The copyfromusermmapsem function in fs/splice.c in the Linux kernel 2.6.22 through 2.6.24 does not validate a certain userspace pointer before dereference, which allow local users to read from arbitrary kernel memory locations...

[Reversemode advisory] CheckPoint Zonelabs - ZoneAlarm SRESCAN driver local privilege escalation

CHECK POINT ZONE LABS PRODUCTS MULTIPLE LOCAL PRIVILEGE ESCALATION VULNERABILITIES Rubйn Santamarta [email protected] 04.20.2007 Affected products: + ZoneAlarm Srescan.sys v 5.0.155 and earlier Srescan.sys is exposed through the following Dos Device:“.SreScan”. Restricted accounts ,including...

CVE-2007-1000

The ipv6getsockoptsticky function in net/ipv6/ipv6sockglue.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.20.2 allows local users to read arbitrary kernel memory via certain getsockopt calls that trigger a NULL dereference...