security flaw

The ext2 file system code in Linux kernel 2.6.x allows local users to cause a denial of service crash via an ext2 stream with malformed data structures that triggers an error in the ext2checkpage due to a length that is smaller than the minimum...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : kernel (MDKSA-2006:086)

A number of vulnerabilities were discovered and corrected in the Linux 2.6 kernel : Prior to Linux kernel 2.6.16.5, the kernel does not properly handle uncanonical return addresses on Intel EM64T CPUs which causes the kernel exception handler to run on the user stack with the wrong GS...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : kernel (MDKSA-2005:110)

Multiple vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel have been discovered and fixed in this update. The following CVE names have been fixed in the LE2005 kernel : Colin Percival discovered a vulnerability in Intel's Hyper-Threading technology could allow a local user to use a malicious thread to create...

Linux ext2 filesystem information leak

During directory creating random data from kernel memory are written to disk...

Information leak in the Linux kernel ext2 implementation

Description: Information leak in the Linux kernel ext2 implementation References: CAN-2005-0400 Authors: Mathieu Lafon [email protected] Romain Francoise [email protected] Arkoon Security Team Advisory - March 25, 2005 http://arkoon.net/advisories/ext2-make-empty-leak.txt Revision: 1.0 1...