CVE-2016-1583

The ecryptfsprivilegedopen function in fs/ecryptfs/kthread.c in the Linux kernel before 4.6.3 allows local users to gain privileges or cause a denial of service stack memory consumption via vectors involving crafted mmap calls for /proc pathnames, leading to recursive pagefault handling...

Null pointer dereference

The Linux kernel before 2.6.31-rc7 does not properly prevent mmap operations that target page zero and other low memory addresses, which allows local users to gain privileges by exploiting NULL pointer dereference vulnerabilities, related to 1 the default configuration of the allowunconfinedmmapl...

FreeBSD-SA-98:04.mmap

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- ============================================================================= FreeBSD-SA-98:04 Security Advisory FreeBSD, Inc. Topic: security compromise via mmap Category: core Module: kernel Announced: 1998-06-02 Affects: FreeBSD 2.2., FreeBSD-stable before...