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...

CVE-2010-4346

The installspecialmapping function in mm/mmap.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.37-rc6 does not make an expected securityfilemmap function call, which allows local users to bypass intended mmapminaddr restrictions and possibly conduct NULL pointer dereference attacks via a crafted assembly-languag...