Information Disclosure

kvm is vulnerable to information disclosure. The vulnerability exists as a data structure field in kvmvcpuioctlx86getvcpuevents in QEMU-KVM was not initialized properly before being copied to user-space. A privileged host user with access to "/dev/kvm" could use this flaw to leak kernel stack...

USN-3777-1 linux, linux-aws, linux-gcp, linux-kvm, linux-oem, linux-raspi2 vulnerabilities

Jann Horn discovered that the vmacache subsystem did not properly handle sequence number overflows, leading to a use-after-free vulnerability. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service system crash or execute arbitrary code. CVE-2018-17182 It was discovered that the...

Oracle Linux 5 / 6 : Unbreakable Enterprise kernel (ELSA-2012-2022)

Description of changes: Avoid bug caused by corrupted Ext4 filesystem. When mounting an ext4 filesystem, the kernel was not checking for zero length extents. This would cause a BUGON assertion failure in the log. NULL pointer dereference in the SCSI subsystem. A NULL dereference may occur if a SC...

Ubuntu Update for linux-lts-backport-maverick vulnerabilities USN-1083-1

Ubuntu Update for Linux kernel vulnerabilities USN-1083-1 OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: gbubuntuUSN10831.nasl 7964 2017-12-01 07:32:11Z santu $ Ubuntu Update for linux-lts-backport-maverick vulnerabilities USN-1083-1 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2011 Greenbone Networks...