USN-2220-1: Linux kernel (EC2) vulnerabilities

Matthew Daley reported an information leak in the floppy disk driver of the Linux kernel. An unprivileged local user could exploit this flaw to obtain potentially sensitive information from kernel memory. CVE-2014-1738 Matthew Daley reported a flaw in the handling of ioctl commands by the floppy...

kernel: security and bugfix update (important)

The Linux Kernel was updated to fix various security issues and bugs. Main security issues fixed: A security issue in the tty layer that was fixed that could be used by local attackers for code execution CVE-2014-0196. Two security issues in the floppy driver were fixed that could be used by loca...

Debian DSA-2928-1 : linux-2.6 - privilege escalation/denial of service/information leak

Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Linux kernel that may lead to a denial of service, information leak or privilege escalation. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems : - CVE-2014-0196 Jiri Slaby discovered a race condition in the pty...

SuSE 11.3 Security Update : Linux Kernel (SAT Patch Numbers 9233 / 9236 / 9237)

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 Service Pack 3 kernel was updated to fix the following severe security issues : - The rawcmdcopyin function in drivers/block/floppy.c in the Linux kernel through 3.14.3 does not properly handle error conditions during processing of an FDRAWCMD ioctl call, which allows...

DSA-2928-1 linux-2.6 - security update

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Debian Security Advisory DSA 2928-1 (linux-2.6 - privilege escalation/denial of service/information leak)

Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Linux kernel that may lead to a denial of service, information leak or privilege escalation. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems: CVE-2014-0196 Jiri Slaby discovered a race condition in the pty laye...

Debian DSA-2926-1 : linux - security update

Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Linux kernel that may lead to a denial of service, information leaks or privilege escalation : - CVE-2014-0196 Jiri Slaby discovered a race condition in the pty layer, which could lead to denial of service or privilege escalation. - CVE-2014-173...

[SECURITY] [DSA 2926-1] linux security update

------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory DSA-2926-1 [email protected] http://www.debian.org/security/ Moritz Muehlenhoff May 12, 2014 http://www.debian.org/security/faq -...

Debian Security Advisory DSA 2926-1 (linux - security update)

Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Linux kernel that may lead to a denial of service, information leaks or privilege escalation: CVE-2014-0196 Jiri Slaby discovered a race condition in the pty layer, which could lead to denial of service or privilege escalation. CVE-2014-1737 /...

CVE-2014-1737

The rawcmdcopyin function in drivers/block/floppy.c in the Linux kernel through 3.14.3 does not properly handle error conditions during processing of an FDRAWCMD ioctl call, which allows local users to trigger kfree operations and gain privileges by leveraging write access to a /dev/fd device...

CVE-2014-1737

The rawcmdcopyin function in drivers/block/floppy.c in the Linux kernel through 3.14.3 does not properly handle error conditions during processing of an FDRAWCMD ioctl call, which allows local users to trigger kfree operations and gain privileges by leveraging write access to a /dev/fd device...

CVE-2014-1738

The rawcmdcopyout function in drivers/block/floppy.c in the Linux kernel through 3.14.3 does not properly restrict access to certain pointers during processing of an FDRAWCMD ioctl call, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel heap memory by leveraging write access to...

DEBIAN-CVE-2014-1737

The rawcmdcopyin function in drivers/block/floppy.c in the Linux kernel through 3.14.3 does not properly handle error conditions during processing of an FDRAWCMD ioctl call, which allows local users to trigger kfree operations and gain privileges by leveraging write access to a /dev/fd device...

Design/Logic Flaw

The rawcmdcopyout function in drivers/block/floppy.c in the Linux kernel through 3.14.3 does not properly restrict access to certain pointers during processing of an FDRAWCMD ioctl call, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel heap memory by leveraging write access to...

Input validation

The rawcmdcopyin function in drivers/block/floppy.c in the Linux kernel through 3.14.3 does not properly handle error conditions during processing of an FDRAWCMD ioctl call, which allows local users to trigger kfree operations and gain privileges by leveraging write access to a /dev/fd device...

CVE-2014-1738

The rawcmdcopyout function in drivers/block/floppy.c in the Linux kernel through 3.14.3 does not properly restrict access to certain pointers during processing of an FDRAWCMD ioctl call, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel heap memory by leveraging write access to...

CVE-2014-1738

The rawcmdcopyout function in drivers/block/floppy.c in the Linux kernel through 3.14.3 does not properly restrict access to certain pointers during processing of an FDRAWCMD ioctl call, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel heap memory by leveraging write access to...

CVE-2014-1738

CVE-2014-1738 is a Linux kernel vulnerability in the floppy driver (raw_cmd_copyout) where processing FDRAWCMD IOCTL calls could allow local attackers with write access to /dev/fd to read kernel heap memory. The flaw is described as an improper restriction of pointers during FDRAWCMD processing, ...

CVE-2014-1737

CVE-2014-1737 affects the Linux kernel (through 3.14.3) and its floppy driver (drivers/block/floppy.c). The flaw is in raw_cmd_copyin not handling error conditions during processing of an FDRAWCMD ioctl, enabling local users with write access to /dev/fd to trigger kfree and potentially gain privi...

UBUNTU-CVE-2014-1738

The rawcmdcopyout function in drivers/block/floppy.c in the Linux kernel through 3.14.3 does not properly restrict access to certain pointers during processing of an FDRAWCMD ioctl call, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel heap memory by leveraging write access to...