DEBIAN-CVE-2014-8172

The filesystem implementation in the Linux kernel before 3.13 performs certain operations on lists of files with an inappropriate locking approach, which allows local users to cause a denial of service soft lockup or system crash via unspecified use of Asynchronous I/O AIO operations...

UBUNTU-CVE-2014-8172

The filesystem implementation in the Linux kernel before 3.13 performs certain operations on lists of files with an inappropriate locking approach, which allows local users to cause a denial of service soft lockup or system crash via unspecified use of Asynchronous I/O AIO operations...

kernel: soft lockup on aio

It was found that due to excessive fileslock locking, a soft lockup could be triggered in the Linux kernel when performing asynchronous I/O operations. A local, unprivileged user could use this flaw to crash the system...

NTP 'ntp_io.c' Authentication Security Bypass Vulnerability

NTP is a protocol used to synchronize computer time. An authentication security bypass vulnerability exists in NTP 'ntpio.c', which can be exploited by an attacker to bypass certain security restrictions and perform unauthorized operations...

NVIDIA Tegra Linux Kernel Competitive Conditions Vulnerability

The NVIDIA Tegra Linux Kernel is a Linux driver package for the Tegra mobile superchip from NVIDIA. A competitive condition vulnerability exists in NVIDIA Tegra Linux Kernel version 3.10 in NVMap. A local attacker can exploit this vulnerability to gain privileges via a specially crafted...

Arbitrary Write Privilege Elevation Vulnerability in Multiple BullGuard Products

BullGuard bdagent.sys is an antivirus program. An arbitrary write elevation of privilege vulnerability exists in several BullGuard products that allows local users to write data to arbitrary storage units and gain privileges via crafted 0x0022405c IOCTL calls...

UBUNTU-CVE-2014-7842

Race condition in arch/x86/kvm/x86.c in the Linux kernel before 3.17.4 allows guest OS users to cause a denial of service guest OS crash via a crafted application that performs an MMIO transaction or a PIO transaction to trigger a guest userspace emulation error report, a similar issue to...

[SECURITY] Fedora 19 Update: libxml2-2.9.1-2.fc19

This library allows to manipulate XML files. It includes support to read, modify and write XML and HTML files. There is DTDs support this includes parsing and validation even with complex DtDs, either at parse time or later once the document has been modified. The output can be a simple SAX strea...

UBUNTU-CVE-2014-3647

arch/x86/kvm/emulate.c in the KVM subsystem in the Linux kernel through 3.17.2 does not properly perform RIP changes, which allows guest OS users to cause a denial of service guest OS crash via a crafted application. A guest user with access to I/O or MMIO region can use this flaw to crash the...

DEBIAN-CVE-2014-8086

Race condition in the ext4filewriteiter function in fs/ext4/file.c in the Linux kernel through 3.17 allows local users to cause a denial of service file unavailability via a combination of a write action and an FSETFL fcntl operation for the ODIRECT flag...

UBUNTU-CVE-2014-8086

Race condition in the ext4filewriteiter function in fs/ext4/file.c in the Linux kernel through 3.17 allows local users to cause a denial of service file unavailability via a combination of a write action and an FSETFL fcntl operation for the ODIRECT flag...

postgresql: stack-based buffer overflow in datetime input/output

Multiple stack-based buffer overflows in PostgreSQL before 8.4.20, 9.0.x before 9.0.16, 9.1.x before 9.1.12, 9.2.x before 9.2.7, and 9.3.x before 9.3.3 allow remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service crash or possibly execute arbitrary code via vectors related to an incorrect...

Fedora Update for kernel FEDORA-2014-5235

Check for the Version of kernel OpenVAS Vulnerability Test Fedora Update for kernel FEDORA-2014-5235 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright C 2014 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the term...

Kernel: qeth: buffer overflow in snmp ioctl

Buffer overflow in the qethsnmpcommand function in drivers/s390/net/qethcoremain.c in the Linux kernel through 3.12.1 allows local users to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact via an SNMP ioctl call with a length value that is incompatible with the command-buffer...

UBUNTU-CVE-2013-4738

Multiple stack-based buffer overflows in the MSM camera driver for the Linux kernel 3.x, as used in Qualcomm Innovation Center QuIC Android contributions for MSM devices and other products, allow attackers to gain privileges via 1 a crafted VIDIOCMSMVPEDEQUEUESTREAMBUFFINFO ioctl call, related to...

Kernel: AACRAID Driver compat IOCTL missing capability check

The aaccompatioctl function in drivers/scsi/aacraid/linit.c in the Linux kernel before 3.11.8 does not require the CAPSYSRAWIO capability, which allows local users to bypass intended access restrictions via a crafted ioctl call...

DEBIAN-CVE-2013-6431

The fib6add function in net/ipv6/ip6fib.c in the Linux kernel before 3.11.5 does not properly implement error-code encoding, which allows local users to cause a denial of service NULL pointer dereference and system crash by leveraging the CAPNETADMIN capability for an IPv6 SIOCADDRT ioctl call...

Kernel: Xen: Xsa-63: information leak via I/O instruction emulation

Xen 4.3.x and earlier does not properly handle certain errors, which allows local HVM guests to obtain hypervisor stack memory via a 1 port or 2 memory mapped I/O write or 3 other unspecified operations related to addresses without associated memory...

DEBIAN-CVE-2013-6381

Buffer overflow in the qethsnmpcommand function in drivers/s390/net/qethcoremain.c in the Linux kernel through 3.12.1 allows local users to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact via an SNMP ioctl call with a length value that is incompatible with the command-buffer...

[SECURITY] Fedora 19 Update: kernel-3.11.4-201.fc19

The kernel package contains the Linux kernel vmlinuz, the core of any Linux operating system. The kernel handles the basic functions of the operating system: memory allocation, process allocation, device input and output, etc...