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SuSE 10 Security Update : the Linux kernel (ZYPP Patch Number 7257)
This kernel update for the SUSE Linux Enterprise 10 SP3 kernel fixes several security issues and bugs. The following security issues were fixed : - Multiple integer overflows in the sndctlnew function in sound/core/control.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.36-rc5-next-20100929 allow local users to...
Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-1023-1)
The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2010 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...
Ubuntu 6.06 LTS / 8.04 LTS / 9.10 / 10.04 LTS / 10.10 : linux, linux-{ec2,source-2.6.15} vulnerabilities (USN-1023-1)
Nelson Elhage discovered several problems with the Acorn Econet protocol driver. A local user could cause a denial of service via a NULL pointer dereference, escalate privileges by overflowing the kernel stack, and assign Econet addresses to arbitrary interfaces. CVE-2010-3848, CVE-2010-3849,...
CVE-2010-2962
drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915gem.c in the Graphics Execution Manager GEM in the Intel i915 driver in the Direct Rendering Manager DRM subsystem in the Linux kernel before 2.6.36 does not properly validate pointers to blocks of memory, which allows local users to write to arbitrary kernel memory...
Design/Logic Flaw
drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915gem.c in the Graphics Execution Manager GEM in the Intel i915 driver in the Direct Rendering Manager DRM subsystem in the Linux kernel before 2.6.36 does not properly validate pointers to blocks of memory, which allows local users to write to arbitrary kernel memory...
CVE-2010-2962
drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915gem.c in the Graphics Execution Manager GEM in the Intel i915 driver in the Direct Rendering Manager DRM subsystem in the Linux kernel before 2.6.36 does not properly validate pointers to blocks of memory, which allows local users to write to arbitrary kernel memory...
CVE-2010-2963
drivers/media/video/v4l2-compat-ioctl32.c in the Video4Linux V4L implementation in the Linux kernel before 2.6.36 on 64-bit platforms does not validate the destination of a memory copy operation, which allows local users to write to arbitrary kernel memory locations, and consequently gain...
kernel: net/sched/act_police.c infoleak
The tcfactpolicedump function in net/sched/actpolice.c in the actions implementation in the network queueing functionality in the Linux kernel before 2.6.36-rc4 does not properly initialize certain structure members, which allows local users to obtain potentially sensitive information from kernel...
kernel: arbitrary kernel memory write via i915 GEM ioctl
drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915gem.c in the Graphics Execution Manager GEM in the Intel i915 driver in the Direct Rendering Manager DRM subsystem in the Linux kernel before 2.6.36 does not properly validate pointers to blocks of memory, which allows local users to write to arbitrary kernel memory...
kernel: drm ioctls infoleak
The drmioctl function in drivers/gpu/drm/drmdrv.c in the Direct Rendering Manager DRM subsystem in the Linux kernel before 2.6.27.53, 2.6.32.x before 2.6.32.21, 2.6.34.x before 2.6.34.6, and 2.6.35.x before 2.6.35.4 allows local users to obtain potentially sensitive information from kernel memory...
kernel: pktcdvd ioctl dev_minor missing range check
Integer signedness error in the pktfinddevfromminor function in drivers/block/pktcdvd.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.36-rc6 allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel memory or cause a denial of service invalid pointer dereference and system crash via a crafted index value i...
Oracle Linux 5 Unbreakable Enterprise kernel security fix update
Following security bugs are fixed in this errata CVE-2010-3904 When copying data to userspace, the RDS protocol failed to verify that the user-provided address was a valid userspace address. A local unprivileged user could issue specially crafted socket calls to write arbitrary values into kernel...
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...
Linux Kernel 2.6.36-rc8 - RDS Protocol Local Privilege Escalation
Linux Kernel 2.6.36-rc8 - RDS Protocol Local Privilege Escalation // source: http://www.vsecurity.com/resources/advisory/20101019-1/ / Linux Kernel Copyright 2010 Virtual Security Research, LLC The handling functions for sending and receiving RDS messages use unchecked copyuserinatomic functions...
Linux Kernel 2.6.36-rc8 - 'RDS Protocol' Local Privilege Escalation
// source: http://www.vsecurity.com/resources/advisory/20101019-1/ / Linux Kernel Copyright 2010 Virtual Security Research, LLC The handling functions for sending and receiving RDS messages use unchecked copyuserinatomic functions without any access checks on user-provided pointers. As a result, ...
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...
Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : kernel (MDVSA-2010:198)
Some vulnerabilities were discovered and corrected in the Linux 2.6 kernel : fs/namei.c in Linux kernel 2.6.18 through 2.6.34 does not always follow NFS automount symlinks, which allows attackers to have an unknown impact, related to LOOKUPFOLLOW. CVE-2010-1088 The tcfilltclass function in...
Linux Kernel < 2.6.36-rc6 pktcdvd Kernel Memory Disclosure
Exploit for linux platform in category local exploits ========================================================== Linux Kernel http://jon.oberheide.org Information: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/showbug.cgi?id=638085 The PKTCTRLCMDSTATUS device ioctl retrieves a pointer to a pktcdvddevice from the...
kernel: information leak via userspace USB interface
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...
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...