Denial Of Service (DoS)

kernel is vulnerable to denial of service DoS. The Linux kernel's register set regset common infrastructure implementation did not check if the required get and set handlers were initialized, allowing a local, unprivileged user to cause a denial of service by performing a register set operation...

Scientific Linux Security Update : kernel on SL6.x i386/x86_64 (20120417)

The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system. This update fixes the following security issues : - Numerous reference count leaks were found in the Linux kernel's block layer I/O context handling implementation. This could allow a local, unprivileged user to...

CentOS Update for kernel CESA-2012:0481 centos6

Check for the Version of kernel OpenVAS Vulnerability Test CentOS Update for kernel CESA-2012:0481 centos6 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2012 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under th...

CentOS 6 : kernel (CESA-2012:0481)

Updated kernel packages that fix multiple security issues, several bugs, and add various enhancements are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having moderate security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base scores...

CVE-2012-1097

The regset aka register set feature in the Linux kernel before 3.2.10 does not properly handle the absence of .get and .set methods, which allows local users to cause a denial of service NULL pointer dereference or possibly have unspecified other impact via a 1 PTRACEGETREGSET or 2 PTRACESETREGSE...

CVE-2007-1221

The Hypervisor in Microsoft Xbox 360 kernel 4532 and 4548 allows attackers with physical access to force execution of the hypervisor syscall with a certain register set, which bypasses intended code protection...