Design/Logic Flaw

A flaw was found in the way the "flags" member of the new pipe buffer structure was lacking proper initialization in copypagetoiterpipe and pushpipe functions in the Linux kernel and could thus contain stale values. An unprivileged local user could use this flaw to write to pages in the page cach...

Denial Of Service (DoS)

The kernel is vulnerable to Denial of Service DoS.Due to a NULL pointer dereference flaw was found in each of the following functions in the Linux kernel: pipereadopen, pipewriteopen, and piperdwropen. When the mutex lock is not held, the ipipe pointer could be released by other processes before ...