[oss-security] Linux kernel floppy ioctl kernel code execution

Hi, As this was posted to linux-distros, and was supposed to be made public earlier this week, but so far wasn't published on oss-sec ... Reported by Matthew Daley to [email protected]. There apparently exists a proof of concept root exploit, that allows local users with access to a floppy devi...

Updated kernel-linus packages fixes multiple bugs and vulnerabilities

Updated kernel-linus provides upstream 3.12.18 kernel and fixes the following security issues: Buffer overflow in the completeemulatedmmio function in arch/x86/kvm/ x86.c in the Linux kernel before 3.13.6 allows guest OS users to execute arbitrary code on the host OS by leveraging a loop that...

Updated kernel-linus packages fix security vulnerabilities

This kernel-linus update provides an update to the 3.10 longterm branch, currently 3.10.24 and fixes the following security issues: The ipv6createtempaddr function in net/ipv6/addrconf.c in the Linux kernel through 3.10 does not properly handle problems with the generation of IPv6 temporary...

U.S. Government asked Linus Torvalds to insert Backdoor Into Linux

At the Linuxcon conference in New Orleans today, Linus Torvalds and the other top Linux developers, talked to the Linux faithful about Linux, Microsoft, and other issues. During a question-and-answer ‪session ‬at ‪the LinuxCon, Linux Torvalds admitted to questions from the audience that the U.S...

U.S. Government asked Linus Torvalds to insert Backdoor Into Linux

At the Linuxcon conference in New Orleans today, Linus Torvalds and the other top Linux developers, talked to the Linux faithful about Linux, Microsoft, and other issues. During a question-and-answer ‪session ‬at ‪the LinuxCon, Linux Torvalds admitted to questions from the audience that the U.S...

Updated kernel-linus package fixes multiple security vulnerabilities

This kernel-linus update provides the extended stable 3.8.13.4 kernel and fixes the follwing security issues: The pcibackenablemsi function in the PCI backend driver drivers/xen/pciback/confspacecapabilitymsi.c in Xen for the Linux kernel 2.6.18 and 3.8 allows guest OS users with PCI device acces...

Linux Kernel 3.1 RC2 Released

Linux Kernel 3.1 RC2 Released Linus Torvalds has announced the release of Linux kernel 3.1 rc2. There isn't too much to see and Linus notes that this is a fairly calm release for coming just one week after the close of the Linux 3.1 kernel merge window. As LKML is down at the moment, below is the...

Linux Kernel 3.1 RC2 Released

Linux Kernel 3.1 RC2 Released Linus Torvalds has announced the release of Linux kernel 3.1 rc2. There isn't too much to see and Linus notes that this is a fairly calm release for coming just one week after the close of the Linux 3.1 kernel merge window. As LKML is down at the moment, below is the...

iDefense Security Advisory 06.07.07: Linux Kernel cpuset tasks Information Disclosure Vulnerability

Linux Kernel cpuset tasks Information Disclosure Vulnerability iDefense Security Advisory 06.07.07 http://labs.idefense.com/intelligence/vulnerabilities/ Jun 07, 2007 I. BACKGROUND Linux is a clone of the UNIX operating system, written from scratch by Linus Torvalds with assistance from a...