CVE-2015-6252

The vhostdevioctl function in drivers/vhost/vhost.c in the Linux kernel before 4.1.5 allows local users to cause a denial of service memory consumption via a VHOSTSETLOGFD ioctl call that triggers permanent file-descriptor allocation...

Design/Logic Flaw

The usbvision driver in the Linux kernel package 3.10.0-123.20.1.el7 through 3.10.0-229.14.1.el7 in Red Hat Enterprise Linux RHEL 7.1 allows physically proximate attackers to cause a denial of service panic via a nonzero bInterfaceNumber value in a USB device descriptor...

CVE-2015-7833

The usbvision driver in the Linux kernel package 3.10.0-123.20.1.el7 through 3.10.0-229.14.1.el7 in Red Hat Enterprise Linux RHEL 7.1 allows physically proximate attackers to cause a denial of service panic via a nonzero bInterfaceNumber value in a USB device descriptor...

CVE-2015-7833

The usbvision driver in the Linux kernel package 3.10.0-123.20.1.el7 through 3.10.0-229.14.1.el7 in Red Hat Enterprise Linux RHEL 7.1 allows physically proximate attackers to cause a denial of service panic via a nonzero bInterfaceNumber value in a USB device descriptor...

CVE-2015-6252

The vhostdevioctl function in drivers/vhost/vhost.c in the Linux kernel before 4.1.5 allows local users to cause a denial of service memory consumption via a VHOSTSETLOGFD ioctl call that triggers permanent file-descriptor allocation...

CVE-2015-7833

The usbvision driver in the Linux kernel package 3.10.0-123.20.1.el7 through 3.10.0-229.14.1.el7 in Red Hat Enterprise Linux RHEL 7.1 allows physically proximate attackers to cause a denial of service panic via a nonzero bInterfaceNumber value in a USB device descriptor...

UBUNTU-CVE-2015-7833

The usbvision driver in the Linux kernel package 3.10.0-123.20.1.el7 through 3.10.0-229.14.1.el7 in Red Hat Enterprise Linux RHEL 7.1 allows physically proximate attackers to cause a denial of service panic via a nonzero bInterfaceNumber value in a USB device descriptor...

File Descriptor Leak Can Cause DoS Vulnerability

Overview Versions 2.0.x and 2.1.x of hapi are vulnerable to a denial of service attack via a file descriptor leak. When triggered repeatedly, this leak will cause the server to run out of file descriptors and the node process to die. The effort required to take down a server depends on the proces...

Vulnerabilities of the Android operating system that allow a hacker to execute arbitrary code

The multiple vulnerabilities of the ESDS::parseESDescriptor function in the libstagefright library of the Android operating system are related to integer overflow. Exploiting these vulnerabilities could allow a malicious actor to execute arbitrary code using specially crafted ESDS data...

SUSE SLED11 / SLES11 Security Update : kernel-source (SUSE-SU-2015:1678-1)

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 SP4 kernel was updated to receive various security and bugfixes. Following security bugs were fixed : - CVE-2015-6252: Possible file descriptor leak for each VHOSTSETLOGFDcommand issued, this could eventually wasting available system resources and creating a denial of...

Oracle: Security Advisory (ELSA-2015-3037)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2015 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

Code injection

Cisco Email Security Appliance ESA 8.5.6-106 and 9.6.0-042 allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service file-descriptor consumption and device reload via crafted HTTP requests, aka Bug ID CSCuw32211...

Cisco Email Security Appliance Max Files Denial of Service Vulnerability

A vulnerability in file descriptor handling of the Cisco Email Security Appliance ESA could allow an authenticated, remote attacker to cause a denial of service DoS condition due to the affected device unexpectedly reloading. The vulnerability is due to failure to release file descriptors when th...

USN-2751-1 linux-lts-vivid vulnerabilities

Benjamin Randazzo discovered an information leak in the md multiple device driver when the bitmapinfo.file is disabled. A local privileged attacker could use this to obtain sensitive information from the kernel. CVE-2015-5697 Marc-André Lureau discovered that the vhost driver did not properly...

Gentoo Security Advisory GLSA 201412-20

Gentoo Linux Local Security Checks GLSA 201412-20 SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2015 Eero Volotinen Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later ifdescription...

Gentoo Security Advisory GLSA 201309-18

Gentoo Linux Local Security Checks GLSA 201309-18 SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2015 Eero Volotinen Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later ifdescription...

USN-2745-1: QEMU vulnerabilities

Lian Yihan discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled certain payload messages in the VNC display driver. A malicious guest could use this issue to cause the QEMU process to hang, resulting in a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. CVE-2015-5239 Qinghao...

Bash: How to open TCP/UDP sockets

How to open TCP/UDP sockets using a built-in feature in Bash ? Bash shell has a built-in feature that allows to open TCP/UDP sockets using a simple syntax. This is very useful when tools like netcat are not installed or we don’t have the permission to use it. The syntax is $ exec...

SUSE-SU-2015:1678-1 Security update for kernel-source

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 SP4 kernel was updated to receive various security and bugfixes. Following security bugs were fixed: CVE-2015-6252: Possible file descriptor leak for each VHOSTSETLOGFDcommand issued, this could eventually wasting available system resources and creating a denial of...

CVE-2015-6252

The vhostdevioctl function in drivers/vhost/vhost.c in the Linux kernel before 4.1.5 allows local users to cause a denial of service memory consumption via a VHOSTSETLOGFD ioctl call that triggers permanent file-descriptor allocation...