Ubuntu 10.04 LTS : linux-lts-backport-maverick vulnerabilities (USN-1187-1)

It was discovered that KVM did not correctly initialize certain CPU registers. A local attacker could exploit this to crash the system, leading to a denial of service. CVE-2010-3698 Thomas Pollet discovered that the RDS network protocol did not check certain iovec buffers. A local attacker could...

USN-1105-1: Linux kernel 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-2010-4075 Dan Rosenberg discovered that the socket filters did not correctly...

USN-1080-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Thomas Pollet discovered that the RDS network protocol did not check certain iovec buffers. A local attacker could exploit this to crash the system or possibly execute arbitrary code as the root user. CVE-2010-3865 Vasiliy Kulikov discovered that the Linux kernel X.25 implementation did not...