USN-1164-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities (i.MX51)

Thomas Pollet discovered that the RDS network protocol did not check certain iovec buffers. A local attacker could exploit this to crash the system or possibly execute arbitrary code as the root user. CVE-2010-3865 Dan Rosenberg discovered that the Linux kernel X.25 implementation incorrectly...

Ubuntu 9.10 : linux, linux-ec2 vulnerabilities (USN-1073-1)

Gleb Napatov discovered that KVM did not correctly check certain privileged operations. A local attacker with access to a guest kernel could exploit this to crash the host system, leading to a denial of service. CVE-2010-0435 Dan Jacobson discovered that ThinkPad video output was not correctly...

USN-1071-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Tavis Ormandy discovered that the Linux kernel did not properly implement exception fixup. A local attacker could exploit this to crash the kernel, leading to a denial of service. CVE-2010-3086 Dan Rosenberg discovered that the Linux kernel TIPC implementation contained multiple integer signednes...