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

Updated kernel packages that fix multiple security issues and several bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having important security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base scores, which give detailed...

Kernel: net: af_key: initialize satype in key_notify_policy_flush

The keynotifypolicyflush function in net/key/afkey.c in the Linux kernel before 3.9 does not initialize a certain structure member, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel heap memory by reading a broadcast message from the notifypolicy interface of an IPSec keysocket...

Kernel: Bluetooth: possible info leak in bt_sock_recvmsg()

The btsockrecvmsg function in net/bluetooth/afbluetooth.c in the Linux kernel before 3.9-rc7 does not properly initialize a certain length variable, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel stack memory via a crafted recvmsg or recvfrom system call...

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...

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...

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...

kernel security and bug fix update

2.6.9-89.0.15.0.1.EL - fix skb alignment that was causing sendto to fail with EFAULT Olaf Kirch orabug 6845794 - fix enomem due to larger mtu size page alloc Zach Brown orabug 5486128 - backout patch sysrq-b that queues upto keventd thread Guru Anbalagane orabug 6125546 - netrx/netpoll race...

Mac OS X xnu <= 1228.3.13 (profil) Kernel Memory Leak/DoS PoC

No description provided by source. / xnu-profil-leak.c Copyright c 2008 by [email protected] Apple MACOS X xnu = 1228.3.13 local kernel memory leak/DoS POC by mu-b - Sat 16 Feb 2008 - Tested on: Apple MACOS X 10.5.1 xnu-1228.0.21/RELEASEI386 Apple MACOS X 10.5.2 xnu-1228.3.131/RELEASEI386 -...