Debian DSA-3093-1 : linux - security update

Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Linux kernel that may lead to a denial of service or privilege escalation : - CVE-2014-7841 Liu Wei of Red Hat discovered that a SCTP server doing ASCONF will panic on malformed INIT chunks by triggering a NULL pointer dereference. - CVE-2014-83...

Debian Security Advisory DSA 3093-1 (linux - security update)

Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Linux kernel that may lead to a denial of service or privilege escalation: CVE-2014-7841 Liu Wei of Red Hat discovered that a SCTP server doing ASCONF will panic on malformed INIT chunks by triggering a NULL pointer dereference. CVE-2014-8369 A...

kernel: kvm: invalid parameter passing in kvm_iommu_map_pages()

A flaw was found in the way the Linux kernel's kvmiommumappages function handled IOMMU mapping failures. A privileged user in a guest with an assigned host device could use this flaw to crash the host...