kernel: drm/virtio: Check whether transferred 2D BO is shmem

A flaw was found in the Linux kernel networking subsystem. Under certain conditions, a pointer may be dereferenced without proper validation, resulting in a NULL pointer dereference. An unprivileged local user could trigger this flaw by exercising the affected networking functionality, causing a...

kernel: tcp: excessive resource consumption for TCP connections with low MSS allows remote denial of service

An excessive resource consumption flaw was found in the way the Linux kernel's networking subsystem processed TCP segments. If the Maximum Segment Size MSS of a TCP connection was set to low values, such as 48 bytes, it can leave as little as 8 bytes for the user data, which significantly increas...

CVE-2016-8399

An elevation of privilege vulnerability in the kernel networking subsystem could enable a local malicious application to execute arbitrary code within the context of the kernel. This issue is rated as Moderate because it first requires compromising a privileged process and current compiler...