qemu -- "drive_init()" Disk Format Security Bypass

Secunia reports: A vulnerability has been reported in QEMU, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to bypass certain security restrictions. The vulnerability is caused due to the "driveinit" function in vl.c determining the format of a disk from data contained in the disk's header. This...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : kernel (MDKSA-2006:182)

A number of vulnerabilities were discovered and corrected in the Linux 2.6 kernel : Stephane Eranian discovered an issue with permon2.0 where, under certain circumstances, the perfmonctl system call may not correctly manage the file descriptor reference count, resulting in the system possibly...