NGS00042 Patch Notification: Solaris USB configuration descriptor kernel stack overflow

Solaris USB configuration descriptor kernel stack overflow CVE-2011-2295 25 July 2011 Andy Davis of NGS Secure has discovered a High risk vulnerability in Oracle Solaris. A local attacker can send a malformed USB configuration descriptor via a malicious USB device and trigger a kernel stack...

Ubuntu 10.04 LTS : linux-ec2 vulnerabilities (USN-1161-1)

Vasiliy Kulikov discovered that kvm did not correctly clear memory. A local attacker could exploit this to read portions of the kernel stack, leading to a loss of privacy. CVE-2010-3881 Timo Warns discovered that the LDM disk partition handling code did not correctly handle certain values. By...

USN-1167-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Aristide Fattori and Roberto Paleari reported a flaw in the Linux kernel's handling of IPv4 icmp packets. A remote user could exploit this to cause a denial of service. CVE-2011-1927 Goldwyn Rodrigues discovered that the OCFS2 filesystem did not correctly clear memory when writing certain file...

USN-1160-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Dan Rosenberg discovered that IRDA did not correctly check the size of buffers. On non-x86 systems, a local attacker could exploit this to read kernel heap memory, leading to a loss of privacy. CVE-2010-4529 Dan Rosenburg discovered that the CAN subsystem leaked kernel addresses into the /proc...

Stack overflow

The econetsendmsg function in net/econet/afeconet.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.39 on the x8664 platform allows remote attackers to obtain potentially sensitive information from kernel stack memory by reading uninitialized data in the ah field of an Acorn Universal Networking AUN packet...

CVE-2011-1173

The econetsendmsg function in net/econet/afeconet.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.39 on the x8664 platform allows remote attackers to obtain potentially sensitive information from kernel stack memory by reading uninitialized data in the ah field of an Acorn Universal Networking AUN packet...

CVE-2011-1173

The econetsendmsg function in net/econet/afeconet.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.39 on the x8664 platform allows remote attackers to obtain potentially sensitive information from kernel stack memory by reading uninitialized data in the ah field of an Acorn Universal Networking AUN packet...

PT-2011-2920 · Linux +1 · Linux Kernel +1

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Linux kernel versions prior to 2.6.39 Description: The issue allows remote attackers to obtain potentially sensitive information from kernel stack memory by reading uninitialized data in the ah field of an Acorn Universal Networking AUN packe...

kernel: bt sco_conninfo infoleak

The scosockgetsockoptold function in net/bluetooth/sco.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.39 does not initialize a certain structure, which allows local users to obtain potentially sensitive information from kernel stack memory via the SCOCONNINFO option...

kernel: ebtables stack infoleak

The doreplace function in net/bridge/netfilter/ebtables.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.39 does not ensure that a certain name field ends with a '\0' character, which allows local users to obtain potentially sensitive information from kernel stack memory by leveraging the CAPNETADMIN capability ...

kernel security and bug fix update

2.6.32-71.24.1.el6 - fs Revert 'fs inotify: stop kernel memory leak on file creation failure' Eric Paris 656831 656832 CVE-2010-4250 2.6.32-71.23.1.el6 - x86 Revert 'x86 mtrr: Assume SYSCFGTom2ForceMemTypeWB exists on all future AMD CPUs' Frank Arnold 683813 652208 2.6.32-71.22.1.el6 - rebuild...

Ubuntu Update for linux vulnerabilities USN-1090-1

Ubuntu Update for Linux kernel vulnerabilities USN-1090-1 OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: gbubuntuUSN10901.nasl 7964 2017-12-01 07:32:11Z santu $ Ubuntu Update for linux vulnerabilities USN-1090-1 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2011 Greenbone Networks GmbH,...

CVE-2011-0711

The xfsfsgeometry function in fs/xfs/xfsfsops.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.38-rc6-git3 does not initialize a certain structure member, which allows local users to obtain potentially sensitive information from kernel stack memory via an FSGEOMETRYV1 ioctl call...

Ubuntu 10.04 LTS / 10.10 : linux, linux-ec2 vulnerabilities (USN-1054-1)

Gleb Napatov discovered that KVM did not correctly check certain privileged operations. A local attacker with access to a guest kernel could exploit this to crash the host system, leading to a denial of service. CVE-2010-0435 Dan Rosenberg discovered that the Linux kernel TIPC implementation...

kernel: net/packet/af_packet.c: reading uninitialized stack memory

net/packet/afpacket.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.37-rc2 does not properly initialize certain structure members, which allows local users to obtain potentially sensitive information from kernel stack memory by leveraging the CAPNETRAW capability to read copies of the applicable structures...

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...

kvm: x86: zero kvm_vcpu_events->interrupt.pad infoleak

Linux kernel 2.6.33 and 2.6.34.y does not initialize the kvmvcpuevents-interrupt.pad structure member, which allows local users to obtain potentially sensitive information from kernel stack memory via unspecified vectors...

kernel: drivers/serial/serial_core.c: reading uninitialized stack memory

The uartgetcount function in drivers/serial/serialcore.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.37-rc1 does not properly initialize a certain structure member, which allows local users to obtain potentially sensitive information from kernel stack memory via a TIOCGICOUNT ioctl call...

kernel: drivers/net/cxgb3/cxgb3_main.c reading uninitialized stack memory

The cxgbextensionioctl function in drivers/net/cxgb3/cxgb3main.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.36-rc5 does not properly initialize a certain structure member, which allows local users to obtain potentially sensitive information from kernel stack memory via a CHELSIOGETQSETNUM ioctl call...

kernel: ipc/shm.c: reading uninitialized stack memory

The copyshmidtouser function in ipc/shm.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.37-rc1 does not initialize a certain structure, which allows local users to obtain potentially sensitive information from kernel stack memory via vectors related to the shmctl system call and the "old shm interface."...