Privilege Escalation

kernel is vulnerable to privilege escalation. The i915 driver in drivers/char/drm/i915dma.c and sys/dev/pci/drm/i915drv.c does not restrict the DRMI915HWSADDR ioctl to the Direct Rendering Manager master, allowing for local privilege escalation. Note: the flaw only affects systems based on the...

Oracle Linux 5 : kernel (ELSA-2008-1017)

The remote Oracle Linux 5 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2008-1017 advisory. - drm i915 driver arbitrary ioremap Eugene Teo 464508 464509 CVE-2008-3831 - fs don't allow splice to files opened with OAPPEND Eugene Teo 466709 46671...

Scientific Linux Security Update : kernel on SL5.x i386/x86_64

Olaf Kirch reported a flaw in the i915 kernel driver that only affects the Intel G33 series and newer. This flaw could, potentially, lead to local privilege escalation. CVE-2008-3831, Important - Miklos Szeredi reported a missing check for files opened with OAPPEND in the syssplice. This could...

RedHat Update for kernel RHSA-2008:1017-01

Check for the Version of kernel OpenVAS Vulnerability Test RedHat Update for kernel RHSA-2008:1017-01 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2009 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the ter...

RedHat Security Advisory RHSA-2009:0009

The remote host is missing updates to the kernel announced in advisory RHSA-2009:0009. These updated packages address the following security issues: Tavis Ormandy discovered a deficiency in the Linux kernel 32-bit and 64-bit emulation. This could allow a local, unprivileged user to prepare and ru...

kernel security update

CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-2008:1017 Updated kernel packages that resolve several security issues and fix various bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. This update has been rated as having important security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team. The kernel...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: kernel security and bug fix update

Updated kernel packages that resolve several security issues and fix various bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. This update has been rated as having important security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team. The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any...

Linux Kernel i915驱动drivers/char/drm/i915_dma.c内存破坏漏洞

BUGTRAQ ID: 31792 CVECAN ID: CVE-2008-3831 Linux Kernel是开放源码操作系统Linux所使用的内核。 在使用Intel G33系列芯片组的机器上，非root用户可以通过ioctl调用只有root用户才可以使用的i915内核驱动的i915setstatuspage函数。本地攻击者可以通过向驱动发送特制的IOCTL清零并重新映射内存位置。 Linux kernel 2.6.x Debian ------ Debian已经为此发布了一个安全公告（DSA-1655-1）以及相应补丁: DSA-1655-1：New Linux 2.6.24...