kernel: ptrace() incorrect error handling leads to corruption and DoS

An address corruption flaw was discovered in the Linux kernel built with hardware breakpoint CONFIGHAVEHWBREAKPOINT support. While modifying a h/w breakpoint via 'modifyuserhwbreakpoint' routine, an unprivileged user/process could use this flaw to crash the system kernel resulting in DoS OR to...

SUSE-SU-2018:0757-1 Security update for crash

This update for crash fixes the following issues: - Exclude openSUSE from RT KMP build bsc1013843 This update also rebuilds the crash kernel module packages with retpoline support to mitigate Spectre Variant 2. bsc1068032 CVE-2017-5715...

UBUNTU-CVE-2018-8822

Incorrect buffer length handling in the ncpreadkernel function in fs/ncpfs/ncplibkernel.c in the Linux kernel through 4.15.11, and in drivers/staging/ncpfs/ncplibkernel.c in the Linux kernel 4.16-rc through 4.16-rc6, could be exploited by malicious NCPFS servers to crash the kernel or execute cod...

FreeBSD : FreeBSD -- Incorrect argument handling in sendmsg(2) (7c0bac69-600a-11e6-a6c3-14dae9d210b8)

Incorrect argument handling in the socket code allows malicious local user to overwrite large portion of the kernel memory. Impact : Malicious local user may crash kernel or execute arbitrary code in the kernel, potentially gaining superuser privileges. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network...

Kernel: missing check during hugepage migration

A flaw was found in the way Linux kernel's Transparent Huge Pages THP implementation handled non-huge page migration. A local, unprivileged user could use this flaw to crash the kernel by migrating transparent hugepages...