USN-679-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

It was discovered that the Xen hypervisor block driver did not correctly validate requests. A user with root privileges in a guest OS could make a malicious IO request with a large number of blocks that would crash the host OS, leading to a denial of service. This only affected Ubuntu 7.10...

Linux kernel drivers buffer overflows

Buffer overflow, out-of-memory references in Yealink and i2c drivers...

Fedora Core 4 : kernel-2.6.12-1.1387_FC4 (2005-510)

Wed Jun 29 2005 Dave Jones - 2.6.12.2 - Mon Jun 27 2005 Dave Jones - Disable multipath caches. 161168 - Reenable AMD756 I2C driver for x86-64. 159609 - Add more IBM r40e BIOS's to the C2/C3 blacklist. - Thu Jun 23 2005 Dave Jones - Make orinoco driver suck less. Scanning/roaming/ethtool support...

CVE-2005-1369

The 1 it87 and 2 via686a drivers in I2C for Linux 2.6.x before 2.6.11.8, and 2.6.12 before 2.6.12-rc2, create the sysfs "alarms" file with write permissions, which allows local users to cause a denial of service CPU consumption by attempting to write to the file, which does not have an associated...

CVE-2005-1369

The 1 it87 and 2 via686a drivers in I2C for Linux 2.6.x before 2.6.11.8, and 2.6.12 before 2.6.12-rc2, create the sysfs "alarms" file with write permissions, which allows local users to cause a denial of service CPU consumption by attempting to write to the file, which does not have an associated...

CVE-2005-1369

The 1 it87 and 2 via686a drivers in I2C for Linux 2.6.x before 2.6.11.8, and 2.6.12 before 2.6.12-rc2, create the sysfs "alarms" file with write permissions, which allows local users to cause a denial of service CPU consumption by attempting to write to the file, which does not have an associated...

CVE-2005-1369

CVE-2005-1369 affects the it87 and via686a I2C drivers; prior to fixes in 2.6.11.8 and 2.6.12-rc2, these drivers created a writable sysfs file alarms, enabling a local attacker to cause CPU DoS by writing to it. Connected advisories indicate the issue is resolved by upgrading the kernel to a vers...

Linux kernel i2c integer overflow DoS

signed/unsigned conversion problem...

Linux Kernel i2c Integer Overflow Vulnerability

Product: Linux Kernel i2c driver Versions: 2.4.x Bug: Integer Overflow Impact: Kernel Panic Code execution with kernel privs Risk: High/Medium Date: June 16, 2004 Author: shaun2k2 http://www.nettwerked.co.uk Introduction The Linux Kernel is the core of the Linux Operating System, and provides the...

PT-2004-3714 · Linux +1 · Linux Kernel +1

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Linux kernel versions 2.4 and 2.6 kernel-image-2.4.27-3-686-smp kernel-image-2.4.27-3-k7-smp kernel-image-2.4.27-3-itanium-smp kernel-image-2.4.27-3-sparc64-smp kernel-image-2.4.27-3-sparc32-smp kernel-headers-2.4.27-3-686-smp...