USN-1294-1: Linux kernel (Oneiric backport) vulnerabilities

Peter Huewe discovered an information leak in the handling of reading security-related TPM data. A local, unprivileged user could read the results of a previous TPM command. CVE-2011-1162 Vasiliy Kulikov discovered that taskstats did not enforce access restrictions. A local attacker could exploit...

USN-1292-1: Linux kernel (Maverick backport) vulnerabilities

A bug was discovered in the XFS filesystem's handling of pathnames. A local attacker could exploit this to crash the system, leading to a denial of service, or gain root privileges. CVE-2011-4077 Nick Bowler discovered the kernel GHASH message digest algorithm incorrectly handled error conditions...

Ubuntu Update for linux USN-1286-1

Ubuntu Update for Linux kernel vulnerabilities USN-1286-1 OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: gbubuntuUSN12861.nasl 7964 2017-12-01 07:32:11Z santu $ Ubuntu Update for linux USN-1286-1 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2011 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This...

kernel: wrong headroom check in udp6_ufo_fragment()

The udp6ufofragment function in net/ipv6/udp.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.39, when a certain UDP Fragmentation Offload UFO configuration is enabled, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service system crash by sending fragmented IPv6 UDP packets to a bridge device...