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USN-1285-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities
Andrea Righi discovered a race condition in the KSM memory merging support. If KSM was being used, a local attacker could exploit this to crash the system, leading to a denial of service. CVE-2011-2183 Vasily Averin discovered that the NFS Lock Manager NLM incorrectly handled unlock requests. A...
[USN-1281-1] Linux (OMAP4) vulnerabilities
========================================================================== Ubuntu Security Notice USN-1281-1 November 24, 2011 linux-ti-omap4 vulnerabilities ========================================================================== A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its...
USN-1281-1 : linux-ti-omap4 vulnerabilities
Andrea Righi discovered a race condition in the KSM memory merging support. If KSM was being used, a local attacker could exploit this to crash the system, leading to a denial of service. CVE-2011-2183 It was discovered that an mmap call with the MAPPRIVATE flag on '/dev/zero' was incorrectly...
Ubuntu 10.04 LTS : linux-lts-backport-natty vulnerabilities (USN-1279-1)
Andrea Righi discovered a race condition in the KSM memory merging support. If KSM was being used, a local attacker could exploit this to crash the system, leading to a denial of service. CVE-2011-2183 Vasily Averin discovered that the NFS Lock Manager NLM incorrectly handled unlock requests. A...
Ubuntu Update for linux-lts-backport-natty USN-1279-1
Ubuntu Update for Linux kernel vulnerabilities USN-1279-1 OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: gbubuntuUSN12791.nasl 7964 2017-12-01 07:32:11Z santu $ Ubuntu Update for linux-lts-backport-natty USN-1279-1 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2011 Greenbone Networks GmbH,...
USN-1244-1 : linux-ti-omap4 vulnerabilities
Dan Rosenberg discovered that the Linux kernel X.25 implementation incorrectly parsed facilities. A remote attacker could exploit this to crash the kernel, leading to a denial of service. CVE-2010-3873 Andrea Righi discovered a race condition in the KSM memory merging support. If KSM was being...
USN-1244-1: Linux kernel (OMAP4) vulnerabilities
Dan Rosenberg discovered that the Linux kernel X.25 implementation incorrectly parsed facilities. A remote attacker could exploit this to crash the kernel, leading to a denial of service. CVE-2010-3873 Andrea Righi discovered a race condition in the KSM memory merging support. If KSM was being...
USN-1242-1: Linux kernel (Maverick backport) vulnerabilities
It was discovered that the security fix for CVE-2010-4250 introduced a regression. A remote attacker could exploit this to crash the system, leading to a denial of service. CVE-2011-1479 Vasiliy Kulikov discovered that taskstats did not enforce access restrictions. A local attacker could exploit...
USN-1241-1: Linux kernel (i.MX51) vulnerabilities
It was discovered that the Stream Control Transmission Protocol SCTP implementation incorrectly calculated lengths. If the net.sctp.addipenable variable was turned on, a remote attacker could send specially crafted traffic to crash the system. CVE-2011-1573 Ryan Sweat discovered that the kernel...
Ubuntu 10.04 LTS : linux-ec2 vulnerabilities (USN-1216-1)
Dan Rosenberg discovered that multiple terminal ioctls did not correctly initialize structure memory. A local attacker could exploit this to read portions of kernel stack memory, leading to a loss of privacy. CVE-2010-4076, CVE-2010-4077 Alex Shi and Eric Dumazet discovered that the network stack...
USN-1208-1: Linux kernel (Marvel DOVE) vulnerabilities
Dan Rosenberg discovered that multiple terminal ioctls did not correctly initialize structure memory. A local attacker could exploit this to read portions of kernel stack memory, leading to a loss of privacy. CVE-2010-4076, CVE-2010-4077 Alex Shi and Eric Dumazet discovered that the network stack...
USN-1203-1: Linux kernel (Marvel DOVE) vulnerabilities
Dan Rosenberg discovered that multiple terminal ioctls did not correctly initialize structure memory. A local attacker could exploit this to read portions of kernel stack memory, leading to a loss of privacy. CVE-2010-4076, CVE-2010-4077 Alex Shi and Eric Dumazet discovered that the network stack...
Debian DSA-2303-2 : linux-2.6 - privilege escalation/denial of service/information leak
Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Linux kernel that may lead to a denial of service or privilege escalation. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems : - CVE-2011-1020 Kees Cook discovered an issue in the /proc filesystem that allows loc...
