CVE-2006-6654

The sendmsg function in NetBSD-current before 20061023, NetBSD 3.0 and 3.0.1 before 20061024, and NetBSD 2.x before 20061029, when run on a 64-bit architecture, allows attackers to cause a denial of service kernel panic via an invalid msgcontrollen parameter to the sendit function...

Ubuntu 4.10 / 5.04 : linux-source-2.6.10, linux-source-2.6.8.1 vulnerabilities (USN-178-1)

Oleg Nesterov discovered a local Denial of Service vulnerability in the timer handling. When a non group-leader thread called exec to execute a different program while an itimer was pending, the timer expiry would signal the old group leader task, which did not exist any more. This caused a kerne...

kernel security update

CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-2005:514 Updated kernel packages are now available as part of ongoing support and maintenance of Red Hat Enterprise Linux version 4. This is the second regular update. This update has been rated as having important security impact by the Red Hat Security...

security flaw

Stack-based buffer overflow in the sendmsg function call in the Linux kernel 2.6 before 2.6.13.1 allows local users to execute arbitrary code by calling sendmsg and modifying the message contents in another thread...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: Updated kernel packages available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 Update 6

Updated kernel packages are now available as part of ongoing support and maintenance of Red Hat Enterprise Linux version 3. This is the sixth regular update. This security advisory has been rated as having important security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team. The Linux kernel handles t...

Multiple Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Remote DoS with netfilter iptrecent module. Privilege escalation with sendmsg for amd64 platform. Reading kernel memory and IO ports with rawsendmsg. Memory leaks with procfs for SCSI drivers. USB DoS...

CVE-2005-2490

Stack-based buffer overflow in the sendmsg function call in the Linux kernel 2.6 before 2.6.13.1 allows local users to execute arbitrary code by calling sendmsg and modifying the message contents in another thread...

CVE-2005-2490

Stack-based buffer overflow in the sendmsg function call in the Linux kernel 2.6 before 2.6.13.1 allows local users to execute arbitrary code by calling sendmsg and modifying the message contents in another thread...

CVE-2005-2490

Stack-based buffer overflow in the sendmsg function call in the Linux kernel 2.6 before 2.6.13.1 allows local users to execute arbitrary code by calling sendmsg and modifying the message contents in another thread...

CVE-2005-2490

CVE-2005-2490 describes a stack-based buffer overflow in the Linux kernel 2.6 sendmsg() path prior to 2.6.13.1. Local users could cause arbitrary code execution by calling sendmsg and altering message contents in another thread. Public sources in the connected documents corroborate the vulnerabil...

CVE-2004-1793

Stack-based buffer overflow in swnet.dll in YaSoft Switch Off 2.3 and earlier allows remote authenticated users to execute arbitrary code via a long message parameter in a SendMsg action to action.htm...

security flaw

The scmsend function in the scm layer for Linux kernel 2.4.x up to 2.4.28, and 2.6.x up to 2.6.9, allows local users to cause a denial of service system hang via crafted auxiliary messages that are passed to the sendmsg function, which causes a deadlock condition...

Security Advisory 2000-011: Insufficient msg_controllen checking for sendmsg(2)

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- NetBSD Security Advisory 2000-011 ================================= Topic: Insufficient msgcontrollen checking for sendmsg2 Version: All releases of NetBSD from 1.3 to 1.5, and -current Severity: Any local user can panic the system Fixed: NetBSD-current: July 1,...