Linux Kernel 2.2 mmap() Local Denial of Service Vulnerability

No description provided by source. source: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/6420/info A denial of service vulnerability has been discovered in the Linux 2.2 kernel. It has been reported that it is possible for an unprivileged user to cause the kernel to stop responding due to a bug in the...

Debian Linux 2.1,Linux kernel 2.2/2.3,RedHat Linux 6.0,S.u.S.E. Linux 6.1 IP Options Vulnerability

No description provided by source. source: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/302/info A vulnerability in the Linux Kernel's IPv4 option processing may allow a remote user to crash the system. The vulnerability is the result of the kernel freeing a socket buffer when it shouldn't while sending an...

Linux Kernel 2.2 (TCP/IP Weakness) Exploit

No description provided by source. / Exploit for the 2.2 linux-kernel TCP/IP weakness. C 1999 by S. Krahmer. THERE IS ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. YOU USE IT AT YOUR OWN RSIK! THIS PROGRAM IS LICESED UNDER THE GPL and belongs to a security- advisory of team teso. You should get the full advisory with...

Debian DSA-454-1 : linux-kernel-2.2.22-alpha - failing function and TLB flush

Paul Starzetz and Wojciech Purczynski of isec.pl discovered a critical security vulnerability in the memory management code of Linux inside the mremap2 system call. Due to flushing the TLB Translation Lookaside Buffer, an address cache too early it is possible for an attacker to trigger a local...

Linux Kernel 2.2 - mmap() Local Denial of Service

Linux Kernel 2.2 - mmap Local Denial of Service / source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/6420/info A denial of service vulnerability has been discovered in the Linux 2.2 kernel. It has been reported that it is possible for an unprivileged user to cause the kernel to stop responding due to a bu...

CVE-2001-0316

CVE-2001-0316 affects Linux kernels 2.2 and 2.4 where sysctl can be invoked with a negative length, allowing unprivileged local users to read kernel memory and potentially obtain root privileges. Mitigation in the public records points to upgrading to kernel 2.2.19 or later (and vendor advisories...

Linux Kernel 2.2.x 2.4.0-test1 (SGI ProPack 1.2/1.3) - Sendmail 8.10.1 Capabilities Privilege Escalation (2)

source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1322/info POSIX "Capabilities" have recently been implemented in the Linux kernel. These "Capabilities" are an additional form of privilege control to enable more specific control over what priviliged processes can do. Capabilities are implemented as thre...

Linux Kernel 2.0/2.1/2.2 - 'autofs' Denial of Service

source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/312/info The autofs module provides support for the automount filesystem, as well as the interface between the kernel and the automountd daemon, which is responsible for the actual mounting. Calls such as chdir executed in the automount directory are...