Debian DSA-3705-1 : curl - security update

Several vulnerabilities were discovered in cURL, an URL transfer library : - CVE-2016-8615 It was discovered that a malicious HTTP server could inject new cookies for arbitrary domains into a cookie jar. - CVE-2016-8616 It was discovered that when re-using a connection, curl was doing case...

RHEL 6 : kernel (RHSA-2014:1365)

Updated kernel packages that fix one security issue and several bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.4 Extended Update Support. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having Important security impact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : curl (MDVSA-2013:180)

A vulnerability has been discovered and corrected in curl : libcurl is vulnerable to a case of bad checking of the input data which may lead to heap corruption. The function curleasyunescape decodes URL encoded strings to raw binary data. URL encoded octets are represented with %HH combinations...

kernel: mm: avoid wrapping vm_pgoff in mremap() and stack expansions

Integer overflow in the vmatoresize function in mm/mremap.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.39 allows local users to cause a denial of service BUGON and system crash via a crafted mremap system call that expands a memory mapping...

Alwil Software Avast Antivirus device driver privilege escalation

No bounds checking on signal arguments processing in device driver allows to overwrite any kernel memory area...

CVE-2003-0985

The mremap system call domremap in Linux kernel 2.4.x before 2.4.21, and possibly other versions before 2.4.24, does not properly perform bounds checks, which allows local users to cause a denial of service and possibly gain privileges by causing a remapping of a virtual memory area VMA to create...

SuSE-SA:2004:001: Linux Kernel

The remote host is missing the patch for the advisory SuSE-SA:2004:001 Linux Kernel. The domremap function of the Linux Kernel is used to manage move, resize Virtual Memory Areas VMAs. By exploiting an incorrect bounds check in domremap during the remapping of memory it is possible to create a VM...

Linux kernel do_mremap() call creates virtual memory area of 0 bytes in length

Overview There is a vulnerability in the Linux kernel memory management routines that allows local users to gain superuser privileges. Description The Linux kernel contains a vulnerability in the domremap call that allows software to create a virtual memory area VMA with a length of 0 bytes. This...

security flaw

The domremap function for the mremap system call in Linux 2.2 to 2.2.25, 2.4 to 2.4.24, and 2.6 to 2.6.2, does not properly check the return value from the domunmap function when the maximum number of VMA descriptors is exceeded, which allows local users to gain root privileges, a different...

security flaw

The mremap system call domremap in Linux kernel 2.4.x before 2.4.21, and possibly other versions before 2.4.24, does not properly perform bounds checks, which allows local users to cause a denial of service and possibly gain privileges by causing a remapping of a virtual memory area VMA to create...