CVE-2010-2240

The doanonymouspage function in mm/memory.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.27.52, 2.6.32.x before 2.6.32.19, 2.6.34.x before 2.6.34.4, and 2.6.35.x before 2.6.35.2 does not properly separate the stack and the heap, which allows context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary code by writing to t...

CVE-2010-2240: Improper Control of Generation of Code

The doanonymouspage function in mm/memory.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.27.52, 2.6.32.x before 2.6.32.19, 2.6.34.x before 2.6.34.4, and 2.6.35.x before 2.6.35.2 does not properly separate the stack and the heap, which allows context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary code by writing to t...

FreeBSD Security Advisory (FreeBSD-SA-04:02.shmat.asc)

The remote host is missing an update to the system as announced in the referenced advisory FreeBSD-SA-04:02.shmat.asc SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2008 E-Soft Inc. Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders...

Microsoft Windows Kernel vulnerable to privilege escalation

Overview The Microsoft Windows Kernel contains a privilege escalation vulnerability that may allow a local attacker to take control of the system. Description The Microsoft Windows Kernel fails to properly set permissions when mapping to a memory segment. By running a specially crafted applicatio...

IBM Access information leak

Critical data is stored in shared memory segment, open for reading and writing...

FreeBSD-SA-04:02.shmat

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 ============================================================================= FreeBSD-SA-04:02.shmat Security Advisory The FreeBSD Project Topic: shmat reference counting bug Category: core Module: kernel Announced: 2004-02-05 Credits: Joost Pol...

shmat reference counting bug

A programming error in the shmat2 system call can result in a shared memory segment's reference count being erroneously incremented. It may be possible to cause a shared memory segment to reference unallocated kernel memory, but remain valid. This could allow a local attacker to gain read or writ...

Security Update: [CSSA-2002-SCO.14] Open UNIX 8.0.0 UnixWare 7.1.1 : X server allows access to any shared memory on the system

To: [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Caldera International, Inc. Security Advisory Subject: Open UNIX 8.0.0 UnixWare 7.1.1 : X server allows access to any shared memory on the system Advisory number: CSSA-2002-SCO.14 Issue date: 2002 April 08 Cross...