MS12-034: Description of the security update for Windows kernel-mode drivers: May 8, 2012

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Microsoft Windows TrueType Font Engine CVE-2012-0159 Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

Description Microsoft Windows is prone to a remote code-execution vulnerability that affects the TrueType Font engine. An attacker can exploit this issue through the Windows Kernel-Mode drivers to execute arbitrary code in kernel mode. The attacker can also exploit this issue through Microsoft...

NVidia Linux / Unix drivers privilege escalation

Kernel memory access is possible...

Potential memory corruption during font rendering using cairo-dwrite — Mozilla

Security research firm iDefense reported that researcher wushi of team509 discovered a memory corruption on Windows Vista and Windows 7 systems with hardware acceleration disabled or using incompatible video drivers. This is created by using cairo-dwrite to attempt to render fonts on an unsupport...

Ubuntu Update for nvidia-graphics-drivers USN-1420-1

Ubuntu Update for Linux kernel vulnerabilities USN-1420-1 OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: gbubuntuUSN14201.nasl 7960 2017-12-01 06:58:16Z santu $ Ubuntu Update for nvidia-graphics-drivers USN-1420-1 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2012 Greenbone Networks GmbH,...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-1420-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2012 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...

Ubuntu 10.04 LTS / 11.04 / 11.10 : nvidia-graphics-drivers, nvidia-graphics-drivers-173, nvidia-graphics-drivers-173-updates, nvidia-graphics-drivers-updates vulnerability (USN-1420-1)

It was discovered that the NVIDIA graphics drivers could be reconfigured to gain access to arbitrary system memory. A local attacker could use this issue to possibly gain root privileges. Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu...

USN-1420-1: NVIDIA graphics drivers vulnerability

It was discovered that the NVIDIA graphics drivers could be reconfigured to gain access to arbitrary system memory. A local attacker could use this issue to possibly gain root privileges...

Fedora Update for hplip FEDORA-2011-11116

Check for the Version of hplip OpenVAS Vulnerability Test Fedora Update for hplip FEDORA-2011-11116 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2012 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms...

Fedora Update for foomatic FEDORA-2011-11118

Check for the Version of foomatic OpenVAS Vulnerability Test Fedora Update for foomatic FEDORA-2011-11118 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2012 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the...

Ubuntu Update for linux USN-1412-1

Ubuntu Update for Linux kernel vulnerabilities USN-1412-1 OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: gbubuntuUSN14121.nasl 7960 2017-12-01 06:58:16Z santu $ Ubuntu Update for linux USN-1412-1 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2012 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This...

Ubuntu 11.10 : linux vulnerability (USN-1412-1)

Somnath Kotur discovered an error in the Linux kernel's VLAN virtual lan and be2net drivers. An attacker on the local network could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service. Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security...

USN-1412-1: Linux kernel vulnerability

Somnath Kotur discovered an error in the Linux kernel's VLAN virtual lan and be2net drivers. An attacker on the local network could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-1409-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2012 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...

Ubuntu Update for linux USN-1405-1

Ubuntu Update for Linux kernel vulnerabilities USN-1405-1 OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: gbubuntuUSN14051.nasl 7960 2017-12-01 06:58:16Z santu $ Ubuntu Update for linux USN-1405-1 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2012 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-1404-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2012 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...

USN-1409-1: Linux kernel (Oneiric backport) vulnerabilities

Somnath Kotur discovered an error in the Linux kernel's VLAN virtual lan and be2net drivers. An attacker on the local network could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service. CVE-2011-3347...

USN-1404-1: Linux kernel (OMAP4) vulnerability

Somnath Kotur discovered an error in the Linux kernel's VLAN virtual lan and be2net drivers. An attacker on the local network could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service. CVE-2011-3347 A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's ext4 file system when mounting a corrupt filesystem. A...

Ubuntu 10.04 LTS : linux-lts-backport-oneiric vulnerabilities (USN-1409-1)

Somnath Kotur discovered an error in the Linux kernel's VLAN virtual lan and be2net drivers. An attacker on the local network could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service. CVE-2011-3347. Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the...

NVIDIA UNIX driver -- access to arbitrary system memory

NVIDIA Unix security team reports: Security vulnerability CVE-2012-0946 in the NVIDIA UNIX driver was disclosed to NVIDIA on March 20th, 2012. The vulnerability makes it possible for an attacker who has read and write access to the GPU device nodes to reconfigure GPUs to gain access to arbitrary...