SuSE 11.2 Security Update : Linux Kernel (SAT Patch Numbers 6338 / 6345 / 6349)

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 SP2 kernel was updated to 3.0.31, fixing many bugs and security issues. Various security and bug fixes contained in the Linux 3.0 stable releases 3.0.27 up to 3.0.31 have been included, but are not explicitly listed below. The following notable security issues have be...

Ubuntu 11.10 : linux vulnerabilities (USN-1607-1)

Vadim Ponomarev discovered a flaw in the Linux kernel causing a reference leak when PID namespaces are used. A remote attacker could exploit this flaw causing a denial of service. CVE-2012-2127 A flaw was found in how the Linux kernel's KVM Kernel-based Virtual Machine subsystem handled MSI Messa...

Ubuntu Update for linux-lts-backport-oneiric USN-1594-1

Ubuntu Update for Linux kernel vulnerabilities USN-1594-1 OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: gbubuntuUSN15941.nasl 7960 2017-12-01 06:58:16Z santu $ Ubuntu Update for linux-lts-backport-oneiric USN-1594-1 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2012 Greenbone Networks GmbH,...

Ubuntu 10.04 LTS : linux-lts-backport-oneiric vulnerabilities (USN-1594-1)

Vadim Ponomarev discovered a flaw in the Linux kernel causing a reference leak when PID namespaces are used. A remote attacker could exploit this flaw causing a denial of service. CVE-2012-2127 A flaw was found in how the Linux kernel's KVM Kernel-based Virtual Machine subsystem handled MSI Messa...

USN-1594-1: Linux kernel (Oneiric backport) vulnerabilities

Vadim Ponomarev discovered a flaw in the Linux kernel causing a reference leak when PID namespaces are used. A remote attacker could exploit this flaw causing a denial of service. CVE-2012-2127 A flaw was found in how the Linux kernel's KVM Kernel-based Virtual Machine subsystem handled MSI Messa...

CVE-2012-2127

CVE-2012-2127 affects the Linux kernel prior to 3.2, where fs/proc/root.c in procfs does not properly interact with CLONE_NEWPID clone system calls. This can enable a remote attacker to trigger a denial of service via a reference leak and growing memory usage by opening many connections to a PID-...