CVE-2025-39950: NULL Pointer Dereference

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net/tcp: Fix a NULL pointer dereference when using TCP-AO with TCPREPAIR A NULL pointer dereference can occur in tcpaofinishconnect during a connect system call on a socket with a TCP-AO key added and TCPREPAIR enabled. The...

CVE-2020-10364: Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling

The SSH daemon on MikroTik routers through v6.44.3 could allow remote attackers to generate CPU activity, trigger refusal of new authorized connections, and cause a reboot via connect and write system calls, because of uncontrolled resource management...

Linux Kernel 4.10.5 4.14.3 (Ubuntu) - DCCP Socket Use-After-Free

Linux Kernel 4.10.5 4.14.3 Ubuntu - DCCP Socket Use-After-Free / This is an announcement for CVE-2017-8824 which is a use-after-free vulnerability I found in Linux DCCP socket. It can be used to gain kernel code execution from unprivileged processes. You’ll find in attachment the proof of concept...

Design/Logic Flaw

The dccpdisconnect function in net/dccp/proto.c in the Linux kernel through 4.14.3 allows local users to gain privileges or cause a denial of service use-after-free via an AFUNSPEC connect system call during the DCCPLISTEN state...

F5 Networks BIG-IP : Linux kernel vulnerability (K17246)

The pingunhash function in net/ipv4/ping.c in the Linux kernel before 4.0.3 does not initialize a certain list data structure during an unhash operation, which allows local users to gain privileges or cause a denial of service use-after-free and system crash by leveraging the ability to make a...

Mandriva Update for acpid MDVSA-2012:086 (acpid)

Check for the Version of acpid OpenVAS Vulnerability Test Mandriva Update for acpid MDVSA-2012:086 acpid Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2012 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the...

CVE-2011-1159

acpid.c in acpid before 2.0.9 does not properly handle a situation in which a process has connected to acpid.socket but is not reading any data, which allows local users to cause a denial of service daemon hang via a crafted application that performs a connect system call but no read system calls...

HP HP-UX 10.20 IBM AIX 4.1.5 - connect() Denial of Service

HP HP-UX 10.20 IBM AIX 4.1.5 - connect Denial of Service source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/352/info Certain versions of AIX and HP/UX contained a bug in the way the OS handled the connect system call. The connect call is used to initiate a connection on a socket. Because of the flaw in th...

HP HP-UX 10.20 / IBM AIX 4.1.5 - 'connect()' Denial of Service

source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/352/info Certain versions of AIX and HP/UX contained a bug in the way the OS handled the connect system call. The connect call is used to initiate a connection on a socket. Because of the flaw in the handling code under AIX certain versions will reboot wh...