DEBIAN-CVE-2013-1928

The dovideosetspupalette function in fs/compatioctl.c in the Linux kernel before 3.6.5 on unspecified architectures lacks a certain error check, which might allow local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel stack memory via a crafted VIDEOSETSPUPALETTE ioctl call on a /dev/dvb device...

DEBIAN-CVE-2012-6538

The copytouserauth function in net/xfrm/xfrmuser.c in the Linux kernel before 3.6 uses an incorrect C library function for copying a string, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel heap memory by leveraging the CAPNETADMIN capability...

UBUNTU-CVE-2013-2548

The cryptoreportone function in crypto/cryptouser.c in the report API in the crypto user configuration API in the Linux kernel through 3.8.2 uses an incorrect length value during a copy operation, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel memory by leveraging the...

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

CVE-2009-2695 kernel: SELinux and mmapminaddr CVE-2009-3228 kernel: tc: uninitialised kernel memory leak CVE-2009-3286 kernel: OEXCL creates on NFSv4 are broken CVE-2009-2908 kernel ecryptfs NULL pointer dereference CVE-2009-3613 kernel: flood ping cause out-of-iommu error and panic when mtu larg...

CVE-2013-1251: Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization

Race condition in win32k.sys in the kernel-mode drivers in Microsoft Windows XP SP2 and SP3, Windows Server 2003 SP2, Windows Vista SP2, Windows Server 2008 SP2, R2, and R2 SP1, and Windows 7 Gold and SP1 allows local users to gain privileges, and consequently read the contents of arbitrary kerne...

CVE-2013-1254: Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization

Race condition in win32k.sys in the kernel-mode drivers in Microsoft Windows XP SP2 and SP3, Windows Server 2003 SP2, Windows Vista SP2, Windows Server 2008 SP2, R2, and R2 SP1, and Windows 7 Gold and SP1 allows local users to gain privileges, and consequently read the contents of arbitrary kerne...

CVE-2013-1263: Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization

Race condition in win32k.sys in the kernel-mode drivers in Microsoft Windows XP SP2 and SP3, Windows Server 2003 SP2, Windows Vista SP2, Windows Server 2008 SP2, R2, and R2 SP1, and Windows 7 Gold and SP1 allows local users to gain privileges, and consequently read the contents of arbitrary kerne...

CVE-2013-1276: Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization

Race condition in win32k.sys in the kernel-mode drivers in Microsoft Windows XP SP2 and SP3, Windows Server 2003 SP2, Windows Vista SP2, Windows Server 2008 SP2, R2, and R2 SP1, and Windows 7 Gold and SP1 allows local users to gain privileges, and consequently read the contents of arbitrary kerne...

DEBIAN-CVE-2012-3510

Use-after-free vulnerability in the xacctaddtsk function in kernel/tsacct.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.19 allows local users to obtain potentially sensitive information from kernel memory or cause a denial of service system crash via a taskstats TASKSTATSCMDATTRPID command...

kernel: recv{from,msg}() on an rds socket can leak kernel memory

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...

RHEL 6 : kernel (RHSA-2012:1304)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 6 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2012:1304 advisory. The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system. This update fixes the following security issues: An...

kernel: security and bugfix update. (important)

The openSUSE 11.4 kernel was updated to fix bugs and security issues. Following security issues have been fixed: CVE-2011-4604: If root does read on a specific socket, it's possible to corrupt kernel memory over network, with an ICMP packet, if the B.A.T.M.A.N. mesh protocol is used. CVE-2011-269...

kernel: tpm infoleaks

The tpmopen function in drivers/char/tpm/tpm.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.39 does not initialize a certain buffer, which allows local users to obtain potentially sensitive information from kernel memory via unspecified vectors...

kernel: ipc/compat*.c: reading uninitialized stack memory

The ipc subsystem in the Linux kernel before 2.6.37-rc1 does not initialize certain structures, which allows local users to obtain potentially sensitive information from kernel stack memory via vectors related to the 1 compatsyssemctl, 2 compatsysmsgctl, and 3 compatsysshmctl functions in...

kernel: xfs: XFS_IOC_FSGETXATTR ioctl memory leak

The xfsiocfsgetxattr function in fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfsioctl.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.36-rc4 does not initialize a certain structure member, which allows local users to obtain potentially sensitive information from kernel stack memory via an ioctl call...

kernel: net sched: fix some kernel memory leaks

The actions implementation in the network queueing functionality in the Linux kernel before 2.6.36-rc2 does not properly initialize certain structure members when performing dump operations, which allows local users to obtain potentially sensitive information from kernel memory via vectors relate...

CVE-2010-1083: Undefined Security Weakness

The processcomplcompat function in drivers/usb/core/devio.c in Linux kernel 2.6.x through 2.6.32, and possibly other versions, does not clear the transfer buffer before returning to userspace when a USB command fails, which might make it easier for physically proximate attackers to obtain sensiti...

Debian: Security Advisory (DSA-1915-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the Debian SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2009 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

[SECURITY] [DSA 1915-1] New Linux 2.6.26 packages fix several vulnerabilities

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory DSA-1915-1 [email protected] http://www.debian.org/security/ dann frazier October 22, 2009 http://www.debian.org/security/faq -...

kernel: tc: uninitialised kernel memory leak

The tcfilltclass function in net/sched/schapi.c in the tc subsystem in the Linux kernel 2.4.x before 2.4.37.6 and 2.6.x before 2.6.31-rc9 does not initialize certain 1 tcmpad1 and 2 tcmpad2 structure members, which might allow local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel memory via...