Linux 5.6 IORING_OP_MADVISE Race Condition

Linux 5.6: IORINGOPMADVISE races with coredumping Last year, I noticed that core dumping iterates over current-mm's VMA list without proper locking, under the assumption that the VMA list can not be modified externally. This assumption was broken by userfaultfd, which can trigger VMA merging...

CVE-2016-7386

For the NVIDIA Quadro, NVS, and GeForce products, NVIDIA Windows GPU Display Driver R340 before 342.00 and R375 before 375.63 contains a vulnerability in the kernel mode layer nvlddmkm.sys handler for DxgDdiEscape ID 0x70000D4 which may lead to leaking of kernel memory contents to user space...

PHP 5.4.0RC6 64bit Denial of Service

No description provided by source. ?php / This script generates a POST header that makes PHP 5.4.0RC6 64 bit try to execute code at 0x1111111111111111 C Copyright 2012 Stefan Esser PHP 5.3.9 requires you to know the address of a writable address filled with NULL. 32bit requires you to create a fa...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : proftpd (MDKSA-2001:021)

The ProFTPD FTP server has problems with memory leaking that could be used in a DoS attack, as reported by Wojciech Purczynski. A memory leak will happen every time a SIZE command was given provided that the scoreboard file is not writable, which is not the case in a default Linux-Mandrake...