Ubuntu 10.04 LTS : linux vulnerability (USN-1651-1)

Rodrigo Freire discovered a flaw in the Linux kernel's TCP illinois congestion control algorithm. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service. Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory. Tenable has...

Apple Patches Kernel, Passcode Lock and WebKit Flaws in iOS 6.0.1

A little more than a month out from the release of iOS 6, which in addition to new functionality addressed almost 200 security vulnerabilities, Apple pushed out iOS 6.0.1 yesterday that repaired four new critical security issues. The most serious seems to be a kernel flaw discovered by researcher...

DEBIAN-CVE-2012-3430

The rdsrecvmsg function in net/rds/recv.c in the Linux kernel before 3.0.44 does not initialize a certain structure member, which allows local users to obtain potentially sensitive information from kernel stack memory via a 1 recvfrom or 2 recvmsg system call on an RDS socket...

Scientific Linux Security Update : kernel on SL4.x i386/x86_64

A flaw was found in the handling of IEEE 802.11 frames, which affected several wireless LAN modules. In certain situations, a remote attacker could trigger this flaw by sending a malicious packet over a wireless network, causing a denial of service kernel crash. CVE-2007-4997, Important A memory...

Design/Logic Flaw

The robust futex implementation in the Linux kernel before 2.6.28 does not properly handle processes that make exec system calls, which allows local users to cause a denial of service or possibly gain privileges by writing to a memory location in a child process...

UBUNTU-CVE-2012-2123

The capbprmsetcreds function in security/commoncap.c in the Linux kernel before 3.3.3 does not properly handle the use of file system capabilities aka fcaps for implementing a privileged executable file, which allows local users to bypass intended personality restrictions via a crafted applicatio...

Design/Logic Flaw

The kernel in Apple iOS before 5.1 does not properly handle debug system calls, which allows remote attackers to bypass sandbox restrictions and execute arbitrary code via a crafted program...

kernel: rpc task leak after flock()ing NFS share

The Network Lock Manager NLM protocol implementation in the NFS client functionality in the Linux kernel before 3.0 allows local users to cause a denial of service system hang via a LOCKUN flock system call...

Microsoft Releases Workaround For Kernel Flaw Used By Duqu

Microsoft has released a workaround for the Windows kernel zero-day vulnerability exploited by the Duqu malware, and said that it is working on a permanent patch, but didn’t specify a timeline for its release. The vulnerability is a serious one that can lead to remote code execution on vulnerable...

Ubuntu 11.04 : linux vulnerabilities (USN-1193-1)

Timo Warns discovered that the GUID partition parsing routines did not correctly validate certain structures. A local attacker with physical access could plug in a specially crafted block device to crash the system, leading to a denial of service. CVE-2011-1577 Phil Oester discovered that the...

PT-2011-3513 · Microsoft · Windows Vista Sp2 +5

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Windows Vista SP2 Windows Server 2008 SP2 Windows Server 2008 R2 Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 Windows 7 Gold Windows 7 SP1 Description: A denial of service issue exists due to improper parsing of file metadata by the kernel. This allows local...

kernel: possible kernel oops from user MSS

The dotcpsetsockopt function in net/ipv4/tcp.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.37-rc2 does not properly restrict TCPMAXSEG aka MSS values, which allows local users to cause a denial of service OOPS via a setsockopt call that specifies a small value, leading to a divide-by-zero error or incorrect u...

kernel: missing tty ops write function presence check in hci_uart_tty_open()

The hciuartttyopen function in the HCI UART driver drivers/bluetooth/hcildisc.c in the Linux kernel 2.6.36, and possibly other versions, does not verify whether the tty has a write operation, which allows local users to cause a denial of service NULL pointer dereference via vectors related to the...

CVE-2010-2897

Removed by vendor...

kernel: GFS2: The setflags ioctl() doesn't check file ownership

The dogfs2setflags function in fs/gfs2/file.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.34-git10 does not verify the ownership of a file, which allows local users to bypass intended access restrictions via a SETFLAGS ioctl request...

Microsoft Confirms Unpatched Windows Kernel Flaw

One day after a Google security researcher releases code to expose a flaw that affects every release of the Windows NT kernel — from Windows NT 3.1 1993 up to and including Windows 7 2009 — Microsoft has released a security advisory to acknowledge the issue and warn of the risk of privilege...

Design/Logic Flaw

The kernel in Sun Solaris 8, 9, and 10, and OpenSolaris before snv103, does not properly handle interaction between the filesystem and virtual-memory implementations, which allows local users to cause a denial of service deadlock and system halt via vectors involving mmap and write operations on...

kernel: skfp_ioctl inverted logic flaw

The skfpioctl function in drivers/net/skfp/skfddi.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.28.6 permits SKFPCLRSTATS requests only when the CAPNETADMIN capability is absent, instead of when this capability is present, which allows local users to reset the driver statistics, related to an "inverted logic"...

kernel: remove SUID when splicing into an inode

The genericfilesplicewrite function in fs/splice.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.19 does not properly strip setuid and setgid bits when there is a write to a file, which allows local users to gain the privileges of a different group, and obtain sensitive information or possibly have unspecified...

RHEL 5 : kernel (RHSA-2008:0957)

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. Updated 12th November 2008 The original packages distributed wi...