Ubuntu 18.04 LTS : Linux kernel vulnerabilities (USN-4344-1)

The remote Ubuntu 18.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-4344-1 advisory. It was discovered that the Intel Wi-Fi driver in the Linux kernel did not properly check for errors in some situations. A local attacker could possibly u...

CVE-2018-7757

Memory leak in the sassmpgetphyevents function in drivers/scsi/libsas/sasexpander.c in the Linux kernel allows local users to cause a denial of service kernel memory exhaustion via multiple read accesses to files in the /sys/class/sasphy directory...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-4286-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2020 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...

kernel: Memory leak in the sas_smp_get_phy_events function in drivers/scsi/libsas/sas_expander.c

Memory leak in the sassmpgetphyevents function in drivers/scsi/libsas/sasexpander.c in the Linux kernel allows local users to cause a denial of service kernel memory exhaustion via multiple read accesses to files in the /sys/class/sasphy directory...

Ubuntu 4.10 / 5.04 : linux-source-2.6.10, linux-source-2.6.8.1 vulnerabilities (USN-178-1)

Oleg Nesterov discovered a local Denial of Service vulnerability in the timer handling. When a non group-leader thread called exec to execute a different program while an itimer was pending, the timer expiry would signal the old group leader task, which did not exist any more. This caused a kerne...

Microsoft Windows NT 4.02000 - LPC Zone Memory Depletion Denial of Service

Microsoft Windows NT 4.02000 - LPC Zone Memory Depletion Denial of Service source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1745/info LPC Local Procedure Call is a message-passing service that allows threads and processes to communicate with each other on a local machine as opposed to RPC Remote Procedu...