[USN-1998-1] Linux kernel vulnerabilities

========================================================================== Ubuntu Security Notice USN-1998-1 October 22, 2013 linux vulnerabilities ========================================================================== A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives: -...

USN-1977-1: Linux kernel (EC2) vulnerabilities

An information leak was discovered in the handling of ICMPv6 Router Advertisement RA messages in the Linux kernel's IPv6 network stack. A remote attacker could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service excessive retries and address-generation outage, and consequently obtain sensitive...

CVE-2013-2892

drivers/hid/hid-pl.c in the Human Interface Device HID subsystem in the Linux kernel through 3.11, when CONFIGHIDPANTHERLORD is enabled, allows physically proximate attackers to cause a denial of service heap-based out-of-bounds write via a crafted device...

CVE-2013-2897

Multiple array index errors in drivers/hid/hid-multitouch.c in the Human Interface Device HID subsystem in the Linux kernel through 3.11, when CONFIGHIDMULTITOUCH is enabled, allow physically proximate attackers to cause a denial of service heap memory corruption, or NULL pointer dereference and...

DEBIAN-CVE-2013-2892

drivers/hid/hid-pl.c in the Human Interface Device HID subsystem in the Linux kernel through 3.11, when CONFIGHIDPANTHERLORD is enabled, allows physically proximate attackers to cause a denial of service heap-based out-of-bounds write via a crafted device...

DEBIAN-CVE-2013-2898

drivers/hid/hid-sensor-hub.c in the Human Interface Device HID subsystem in the Linux kernel through 3.11, when CONFIGHIDSENSORHUB is enabled, allows physically proximate attackers to obtain sensitive information from kernel memory via a crafted device...

CVE-2013-2891

drivers/hid/hid-steelseries.c in the Human Interface Device HID subsystem in the Linux kernel through 3.11, when CONFIGHIDSTEELSERIES is enabled, allows physically proximate attackers to cause a denial of service heap-based out-of-bounds write via a crafted device...

CVE-2013-2895

drivers/hid/hid-logitech-dj.c in the Human Interface Device HID subsystem in the Linux kernel through 3.11, when CONFIGHIDLOGITECHDJ is enabled, allows physically proximate attackers to cause a denial of service NULL pointer dereference and OOPS or obtain sensitive information from kernel memory...

CVE-2013-2893

The Human Interface Device HID subsystem in the Linux kernel through 3.11, when CONFIGLOGITECHFF, CONFIGLOGIG940FF, or CONFIGLOGIWHEELSFF is enabled, allows physically proximate attackers to cause a denial of service heap-based out-of-bounds write via a crafted device, related to 1...

DEBIAN-CVE-2013-2896

drivers/hid/hid-ntrig.c in the Human Interface Device HID subsystem in the Linux kernel through 3.11, when CONFIGHIDNTRIG is enabled, allows physically proximate attackers to cause a denial of service NULL pointer dereference and OOPS via a crafted device...

CVE-2013-2889

drivers/hid/hid-zpff.c in the Human Interface Device HID subsystem in the Linux kernel through 3.11, when CONFIGHIDZEROPLUS is enabled, allows physically proximate attackers to cause a denial of service heap-based out-of-bounds write via a crafted device...

CVE-2013-2888

Multiple array index errors in drivers/hid/hid-core.c in the Human Interface Device HID subsystem in the Linux kernel through 3.11 allow physically proximate attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service heap memory corruption via a crafted device that provides an invalid Repor...

UBUNTU-CVE-2013-2899

drivers/hid/hid-picolcdcore.c in the Human Interface Device HID subsystem in the Linux kernel through 3.11, when CONFIGHIDPICOLCD is enabled, allows physically proximate attackers to cause a denial of service NULL pointer dereference and OOPS via a crafted device...

UBUNTU-CVE-2013-2896

drivers/hid/hid-ntrig.c in the Human Interface Device HID subsystem in the Linux kernel through 3.11, when CONFIGHIDNTRIG is enabled, allows physically proximate attackers to cause a denial of service NULL pointer dereference and OOPS via a crafted device...

UBUNTU-CVE-2013-2894

drivers/hid/hid-lenovo-tpkbd.c in the Human Interface Device HID subsystem in the Linux kernel through 3.11, when CONFIGHIDLENOVOTPKBD is enabled, allows physically proximate attackers to cause a denial of service heap-based out-of-bounds write via a crafted device...

UBUNTU-CVE-2013-2889

drivers/hid/hid-zpff.c in the Human Interface Device HID subsystem in the Linux kernel through 3.11, when CONFIGHIDZEROPLUS is enabled, allows physically proximate attackers to cause a denial of service heap-based out-of-bounds write via a crafted device...

UBUNTU-CVE-2013-2888

Multiple array index errors in drivers/hid/hid-core.c in the Human Interface Device HID subsystem in the Linux kernel through 3.11 allow physically proximate attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service heap memory corruption via a crafted device that provides an invalid Repor...

UBUNTU-CVE-2013-2897

Multiple array index errors in drivers/hid/hid-multitouch.c in the Human Interface Device HID subsystem in the Linux kernel through 3.11, when CONFIGHIDMULTITOUCH is enabled, allow physically proximate attackers to cause a denial of service heap memory corruption, or NULL pointer dereference and...

UBUNTU-CVE-2013-2892

drivers/hid/hid-pl.c in the Human Interface Device HID subsystem in the Linux kernel through 3.11, when CONFIGHIDPANTHERLORD is enabled, allows physically proximate attackers to cause a denial of service heap-based out-of-bounds write via a crafted device...

Windows 8 Picture Gesture Authentication Research

Typing on a smartphone or tablet keyboard lends itself to a lot of fat-fingered mistakes. Recent updates to mobile operating systems and desktop OSes such as Windows 8, however, have tried to better leverage the touch screen for things such as authentication. Users, for example, have the option o...