Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : Linux kernel (Utopic HWE) vulnerabilities (USN-2635-1)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-2635-1 advisory. Xiong Zhou discovered a bug in the way the EXT4 filesystem handles fallocate zero range functionality when the page size is greater than the block size. ...

USN-2636-1 linux-lts-vivid vulnerabilities

Xiong Zhou discovered a bug in the way the EXT4 filesystem handles fallocate zero range functionality when the page size is greater than the block size. A local attacker could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service system crash. CVE-2015-0275 Wen Xu discovered a use-after-free flaw in the...

USN-2635-1 linux-lts-utopic vulnerabilities

Xiong Zhou discovered a bug in the way the EXT4 filesystem handles fallocate zero range functionality when the page size is greater than the block size. A local attacker could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service system crash. CVE-2015-0275 Wen Xu discovered a use-after-free flaw in the...

PT-2015-4557

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Linux kernel versions prior to 4.1 Description The issue allows local users to cause a denial of service via a crafted fallocate zero-range request, specifically through the ext4 zero range function in fs/ext4/extents.c. Recommendations For...

CVE-2015-0275

The ext4zerorange function in fs/ext4/extents.c in the Linux kernel before 4.1 allows local users to cause a denial of service BUG via a crafted fallocate zero-range request...

UBUNTU-CVE-2015-0275

The ext4zerorange function in fs/ext4/extents.c in the Linux kernel before 4.1 allows local users to cause a denial of service BUG via a crafted fallocate zero-range request...

RedHat Update for kernel RHSA-2015:0102-01

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...

Kernel: mm/shmem: denial of service

A race condition flaw was found in the way the Linux kernel's mmap2, madvise2, and fallocate2 system calls interacted with each other while operating on virtual memory file system files. A local user could use this flaw to cause a denial of service...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: kernel security and bug fix update

Updated kernel packages that fix multiple security issues and several bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having Important security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base scores, which give detailed severity...

Kernel: mm/shmem: denial of service

A race condition flaw was found in the way the Linux kernel's mmap2, madvise2, and fallocate2 system calls interacted with each other while operating on virtual memory file system files. A local user could use this flaw to cause a denial of service...

RHEL 6 : MRG (RHSA-2012:1491)

Updated kernel-rt packages that fix several security issues and multiple bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise MRG 2.2. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having important security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base scores, which give detailed...

kernel: ext4: AIO vs fallocate stale data exposure

Race condition in fs/ext4/extents.c in the Linux kernel before 3.4.16 allows local users to obtain sensitive information from a deleted file by reading an extent that was not properly marked as uninitialized...

Design/Logic Flaw

The fallocate implementation in the GFS2 filesystem in the Linux kernel before 3.2 relies on the page cache, which might allow local users to cause a denial of service by preallocating blocks in certain situations involving insufficient memory...

CVE-2011-4098

CVE-2011-4098 affects the Linux kernel GFS2 fallocate implementation. The vulnerability stems from using the page cache to preallocate blocks, which can allow local users to trigger a denial of service in scenarios with insufficient memory. Affected component is the GFS2 filesystem’s fallocate pa...

CVE-2011-4098: Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

The fallocate implementation in the GFS2 filesystem in the Linux kernel before 3.2 relies on the page cache, which might allow local users to cause a denial of service by preallocating blocks in certain situations involving insufficient memory...

kernel, perf, python security update

CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-2013:0496 Updated kernel packages that fix multiple security issues, address several hundred bugs, and add numerous enhancements are now available as part of the ongoing support and maintenance of Red Hat Enterprise Linux version 6. This is the fourth...

Scientific Linux Security Update : kernel on SL6.x i386/x86_64 (20120710)

The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system. This update fixes the following security issues : - A NULL pointer dereference flaw was found in the nfctfrag6reasm function in the Linux kernel's netfilter IPv6 connection tracking implementation. A remote...

kernel: gfs2: make sure fallocate bytes is a multiple of blksize

The gfs2fallocate function in fs/gfs2/file.c in the Linux kernel before 3.0-rc1 does not ensure that the size of a chunk allocation is a multiple of the block size, which allows local users to cause a denial of service BUG and system crash by arranging for all resource groups to have too little...

UBUNTU-CVE-2011-2689

The gfs2fallocate function in fs/gfs2/file.c in the Linux kernel before 3.0-rc1 does not ensure that the size of a chunk allocation is a multiple of the block size, which allows local users to cause a denial of service BUG and system crash by arranging for all resource groups to have too little...

PT-2011-4030 · Linux +1 · Linux Kernel +1

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Linux kernel versions prior to 3.0-rc1 Description: The issue allows local users to cause a denial of service, resulting in a system crash, by arranging for all resource groups to have too little free space. This is due to the gfs2 fallocate...