USN-1080-2: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Thomas Pollet discovered that the RDS network protocol did not check certain iovec buffers. A local attacker could exploit this to crash the system or possibly execute arbitrary code as the root user. CVE-2010-3865 Vasiliy Kulikov discovered that the Linux kernel X.25 implementation did not...

USN-1080-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Thomas Pollet discovered that the RDS network protocol did not check certain iovec buffers. A local attacker could exploit this to crash the system or possibly execute arbitrary code as the root user. CVE-2010-3865 Vasiliy Kulikov discovered that the Linux kernel X.25 implementation did not...