Ubuntu 6.06 LTS / 8.04 LTS / 8.10 / 9.04 : linux, linux-source-2.6.15 vulnerabilities (USN-852-1)

Solar Designer discovered that the z90crypt driver did not correctly check capabilities. A local attacker could exploit this to shut down the device, leading to a denial of service. Only affected Ubuntu 6.06. CVE-2009-1883 Michael Buesch discovered that the SGI GRU driver did not correctly check...

CVE-2009-3288

The sgbuildindirect function in drivers/scsi/sg.c in Linux kernel 2.6.28-rc1 through 2.6.31-rc8 uses an incorrect variable when accessing an array, which allows local users to cause a denial of service kernel OOPS and NULL pointer dereference, as demonstrated by using xcdroast to duplicate a CD...

CVE-2009-3288

The CVE-2009-3288 entry affects the Linux kernel 2.6.28-rc1 through 2.6.31-rc8. It concerns the sg_build_indirect function in drivers/scsi/sg.c, which uses an incorrect variable when accessing an array, allowing a local user to cause a Denial of Service via a kernel OOPS and NULL pointer derefere...