EUVD-2012-0980

Malware in sbrugna...

kernel: security and bugfix update (important)

The Linux kernel was updated to fix various bugs and security issues: CVE-2013-0871: Race condition in the ptrace functionality in the Linux kernel allowed local users to gain privileges via a PTRACESETREGS ptrace system call in a crafted application, as demonstrated by ptracedeath. CVE-2013-0160...

CVE-2012-0957

CVE-2012-0957 affects the Linux kernel prior to 3.4.16. The override_release function in kernel/sys.c can let a local user leak kernel stack memory by calling uname with the UNAME26 personality. This is a local-privilege scenario; no remote vector is described in the provided documents. Affected ...