Denial Of Service (DoS)

kernel is vulnerable to denial of service DoS. The vulnerability exists through inconsistency in the methods for allocating and freeing NFSv4 ACL data; CVE-2010-4250 fix caused a regression; a flaw in nextpidmap and inetdiagbcaudit; flaws in the CAN implementation; a race condition in the memory...

Scientific Linux Security Update : kernel on SL6.x i386/x86_64

Security issues : - Using PCI passthrough without interrupt remapping support allowed KVM guests to generate MSI interrupts and thus potentially inject traps. A privileged guest user could use this flaw to crash the host or possibly escalate their privileges on the host. The fix for this issue ca...

RedHat Update for kernel RHSA-2011:1189-01

Check for the Version of kernel OpenVAS Vulnerability Test RedHat Update for kernel RHSA-2011:1189-01 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2012 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the ter...

USN-1285-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Andrea Righi discovered a race condition in the KSM memory merging support. If KSM was being used, a local attacker could exploit this to crash the system, leading to a denial of service. CVE-2011-2183 Vasily Averin discovered that the NFS Lock Manager NLM incorrectly handled unlock requests. A...

[USN-1281-1] Linux (OMAP4) vulnerabilities

========================================================================== Ubuntu Security Notice USN-1281-1 November 24, 2011 linux-ti-omap4 vulnerabilities ========================================================================== A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its...

Ubuntu 10.04 LTS : linux-lts-backport-natty vulnerabilities (USN-1279-1)

Andrea Righi discovered a race condition in the KSM memory merging support. If KSM was being used, a local attacker could exploit this to crash the system, leading to a denial of service. CVE-2011-2183 Vasily Averin discovered that the NFS Lock Manager NLM incorrectly handled unlock requests. A...

Ubuntu Update for linux USN-1272-1

Ubuntu Update for Linux kernel vulnerabilities USN-1272-1 OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: gbubuntuUSN12721.nasl 7964 2017-12-01 07:32:11Z santu $ Ubuntu Update for linux USN-1272-1 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2011 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-1272-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2011 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

Ubuntu 10.10 : linux vulnerabilities (USN-1272-1)

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 Andrea Righi discovered a race condition in the KSM memory merging support...

USN-1244-1 : linux-ti-omap4 vulnerabilities

Dan Rosenberg discovered that the Linux kernel X.25 implementation incorrectly parsed facilities. A remote attacker could exploit this to crash the kernel, leading to a denial of service. CVE-2010-3873 Andrea Righi discovered a race condition in the KSM memory merging support. If KSM was being...

USN-1244-1: Linux kernel (OMAP4) vulnerabilities

Dan Rosenberg discovered that the Linux kernel X.25 implementation incorrectly parsed facilities. A remote attacker could exploit this to crash the kernel, leading to a denial of service. CVE-2010-3873 Andrea Righi discovered a race condition in the KSM memory merging support. If KSM was being...

Ubuntu 10.04 LTS : linux-ec2 vulnerabilities (USN-1216-1)

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 Alex Shi and Eric Dumazet discovered that the network stack...

USN-1208-1: Linux kernel (Marvel DOVE) vulnerabilities

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 Alex Shi and Eric Dumazet discovered that the network stack...

USN-1203-1: Linux kernel (Marvel DOVE) vulnerabilities

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 Alex Shi and Eric Dumazet discovered that the network stack...

RHEL 6 : kernel (RHSA-2011:1189)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 6 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2011:1189 advisory. Security issues: Using PCI passthrough without interrupt remapping support allowed KVM guests to generate MSI interrupts and thus potentiall...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: kernel security, bug fix, and enhancement update

Updated kernel packages that fix several security issues, various bugs, and add two enhancements are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having important security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base scores,...