Ubuntu 10.10 : linux vulnerabilities (USN-1293-1)

A bug was discovered in the XFS filesystem's handling of pathnames. A local attacker could exploit this to crash the system, leading to a denial of service, or gain root privileges. CVE-2011-4077 Nick Bowler discovered the kernel GHASH message digest algorithm incorrectly handled error conditions...

New Approach to automatically detecting bugs and vulnerabilities in Linux

New Approach to automatically detecting bugs and vulnerabilities in Linux Australian researcher Silvio Cesare , PhD student at Deakin University has released a tool capable of automatically detecting bugs and vulnerabilities in embedded Linux libraries. Developers may "embed" or "clone" code from...

Ubuntu 8.04 LTS : linux vulnerabilities (USN-1268-1)

It was discovered that CIFS incorrectly handled authentication. When a user had a CIFS share mounted that required authentication, a local user could mount the same share without knowing the correct password. CVE-2011-1585 It was discovered that the GRE protocol incorrectly handled netns...

Ubuntu 10.10 : linux-mvl-dove vulnerabilities (USN-1245-1)

Ryan Sweat discovered that the kernel incorrectly handled certain VLAN packets. On some systems, a remote attacker could send specially crafted traffic to crash the system, leading to a denial of service. CVE-2011-1576 Vasiliy Kulikov and Dan Rosenberg discovered that ecryptfs did not correctly...

Ubuntu 10.10 : linux vulnerabilities (USN-1243-1)

It was discovered that the security fix for CVE-2010-4250 introduced a regression. A remote attacker could exploit this to crash the system, leading to a denial of service. CVE-2011-1479 Vasiliy Kulikov discovered that taskstats did not enforce access restrictions. A local attacker could exploit...

Ubuntu 8.04 LTS : linux vulnerabilities (USN-1236-1)

It was discovered that the Auerswald usb driver incorrectly handled lengths of the USB string descriptors. A local attacker with physical access could insert a specially crafted USB device and gain root privileges. CVE-2009-4067 It was discovered that the Stream Control Transmission Protocol SCTP...

USN-1228-1 : linux-ti-omap4 vulnerabilities

Timo Warns discovered that the EFI GUID partition table was not correctly parsed. A physically local attacker that could insert mountable devices could exploit this to crash the system or possibly gain root privileges. CVE-2011-1776 Dan Rosenberg discovered that the IPv4 diagnostic routines did n...

Ubuntu 11.04 : linux vulnerabilities (USN-1211-1)

It was discovered that the /proc filesystem did not correctly handle permission changes when programs executed. A local attacker could hold open files to examine details about programs running with higher privileges, potentially increasing the chances of exploiting additional vulnerabilities...

Ubuntu 10.10 : linux vulnerabilities (USN-1201-1)

It was discovered that the /proc filesystem did not correctly handle permission changes when programs executed. A local attacker could hold open files to examine details about programs running with higher privileges, potentially increasing the chances of exploiting additional vulnerabilities...

Ubuntu 11.04 : linux vulnerabilities (USN-1193-1)

Timo Warns discovered that the GUID partition parsing routines did not correctly validate certain structures. A local attacker with physical access could plug in a specially crafted block device to crash the system, leading to a denial of service. CVE-2011-1577 Phil Oester discovered that the...

Ubuntu 8.04 LTS : linux vulnerabilities (USN-1189-1)

It was discovered that the /proc filesystem did not correctly handle permission changes when programs executed. A local attacker could hold open files to examine details about programs running with higher privileges, potentially increasing the chances of exploiting additional vulnerabilities...

Ubuntu 8.04 LTS : linux vulnerabilities (USN-1186-1)

Dan Rosenberg discovered that IPC structures were not correctly initialized on 64bit systems. A local attacker could exploit this to read kernel stack memory, leading to a loss of privacy. CVE-2010-4073 Steve Chen discovered that setsockopt did not correctly check MSS values. A local attacker cou...

Ubuntu Update for linux USN-1170-1

Ubuntu Update for Linux kernel vulnerabilities USN-1170-1 OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: gbubuntuUSN11701.nasl 7964 2017-12-01 07:32:11Z santu $ Ubuntu Update for linux USN-1170-1 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2011 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This...

Ubuntu 8.04 LTS : linux vulnerabilities (USN-1170-1)

Dan Rosenberg discovered that multiple terminal ioctls did not correctly initialize structure memory. A local attacker could exploit this to read portions of kernel stack memory, leading to a loss of privacy. CVE-2010-4076, CVE-2010-4077 It was discovered that Xen did not correctly handle certain...

Ubuntu 11.04 : linux vulnerabilities (USN-1167-1)

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...

Ubuntu 8.04 LTS : linux vulnerabilities (USN-1146-1)

Kees Cook discovered that some ethtool functions did not correctly clear heap memory. A local attacker with CAPNETADMIN privileges could exploit this to read portions of kernel heap memory, leading to a loss of privacy. CVE-2010-4655 Kees Cook discovered that the IOWarrior USB device driver did n...

Ubuntu 8.04 LTS : linux vulnerabilities (USN-1133-1)

Nelson Elhage discovered that Econet did not correctly handle AUN packets over UDP. A local attacker could send specially crafted traffic to crash the system, leading to a denial of service. CVE-2010-4342 Dan Rosenberg discovered that the OSS subsystem did not handle name termination correctly. A...

Ubuntu Update for linux vulnerabilities USN-1105-1

Ubuntu Update for Linux kernel vulnerabilities USN-1105-1 OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: gbubuntuUSN11051.nasl 7964 2017-12-01 07:32:11Z santu $ Ubuntu Update for linux vulnerabilities USN-1105-1 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2011 Greenbone Networks GmbH,...

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,...

Ubuntu 10.04 LTS / 10.10 : linux vulnerabilities (USN-1090-1)

Dan Rosenberg discovered that multiple terminal ioctls did not correctly initialize structure memory. A local attacker could exploit this to read portions of kernel stack memory, leading to a loss of privacy. CVE-2010-4075 Dan Rosenberg discovered that the SCSI subsystem did not correctly validat...