Linux 5.6 IORING_OP_MADVISE Race Condition

Linux 5.6 has an issue with IORINGOPMADVISE racing with coredumping. Linux 5.6: IORINGOPMADVISE races with coredumping Last year, I noticed that core dumping iterates over current-mm's VMA list without proper locking, under the assumption that the VMA list can not be modified externally. This...

SuSE 10 Security Update : Linux kernel (ZYPP Patch Number 5370)

This kernel update fixes quite a number of security problems : - A remote attacker could crash the IPSec/IPv6 stack by sending a bad ESP packet. This requires the host to be able to receive such packets default filtered by the firewall. CVE-2007-6282 - A problem in SIT IPv6 tunnel handling could ...

Design/Logic Flaw

The ptracestart function in kernel/ptrace.c in the Linux kernel 2.6.18 does not properly handle simultaneous execution of the docoredump function, which allows local users to cause a denial of service deadlock via vectors involving the ptrace system call and a coredumping thread...