CVE-2012-2673

Multiple integer overflows in the 1 GCgenericmalloc and 2 calloc functions in malloc.c, and the 3 GCgenericmallocignoreoffpage function in mallocx.c in Boehm-Demers-Weiser GC libgc before 7.2 make it easier for context-dependent attackers to perform memory-related attacks such as buffer overflows...

Integer Overflow or Wraparound

Overview Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Integer Overflow or Wraparound via the orderedmalloc function in boost/pool/pool.hpp. An attacker can perform memory-related attacks such as buffer overflows via a large memory chunk size value, which causes less memory to be allocated...

Microsoft Adds New Exploit Mitigations to IE 10

Windows 8 is still off on the horizon somewhere, but the new version of Internet Explorer that’s coming with it–IE 10–already is in consumer preview and it includes some major changes to the exploit mitigations. In addition to the existing implementations of ASLR, DEP and others technologies in...

kernel: personality: fix PER_CLEAR_ON_SETID

The personality subsystem in the Linux kernel before 2.6.31-rc3 has a PERCLEARONSETID setting that does not clear the ADDRCOMPATLAYOUT and MMAPPAGEZERO flags when executing a setuid or setgid program, which makes it easier for local users to leverage the details of memory usage to 1 conduct NULL...

CVE-2009-1895

The personality subsystem in the Linux kernel before 2.6.31-rc3 has a PERCLEARONSETID setting that does not clear the ADDRCOMPATLAYOUT and MMAPPAGEZERO flags when executing a setuid or setgid program, which makes it easier for local users to leverage the details of memory usage to 1 conduct NULL...