Privilege Escalation

kernel is vulnerable to privilege escalation. The vulnerability exists when an application has a stack overflow, the stack could silently overwrite another memory mapped area instead of a segmentation fault occurring, which could cause an application to execute arbitrary code, possibly leading to...

hw: Intel GPU blitter manipulation can allow for arbitrary kernel memory write

A flaw was found in the Intel graphics hardware GPU, where a local attacker with the ability to issue commands to the GPU could inadvertently lead to memory corruption and possible privilege escalation. The attacker could use the GPU blitter to perform privilege MMIO operations, not limited to th...

Oracle Linux 4 : kernel (ELSA-2010-0676)

From Red Hat Security Advisory 2010:0676 : Updated kernel packages that fix one security issue are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having important security impact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, whi...