RHEL 6 : kernel (RHSA-2012:1304)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 6 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2012:1304 advisory. The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system. This update fixes the following security issues: An...

kernel: net: slab corruption due to improper synchronization around inet->opt

Race condition in the IP implementation in the Linux kernel before 3.0 might allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service slab corruption and system crash by sending packets to an application that sets socket options during the handling of network traffic...

kernel: DoS (crash) due slab corruption in inotify_init1 (incomplete fix for CVE-2010-4250)

Double free vulnerability in the inotify subsystem in the Linux kernel before 2.6.39 allows local users to cause a denial of service system crash via vectors involving failed attempts to create files. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incorrect fix for CVE-2010-4250...

kernel: nfs4: Ensure that ACL pages sent over NFS were not allocated from the slab

The nfs4procsetacl function in fs/nfs/nfs4proc.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.38 stores NFSv4 ACL data in memory that is allocated by kmalloc but not properly freed, which allows local users to cause a denial of service panic via a crafted attempt to set an ACL...

SuSE 10 Security Update : Linux kernel (i386) (ZYPP Patch Number 2097)

This kernel update fixes the following security problems : - A double userspace copy in a SCTP ioctl allows local attackers to overflow a buffer in the kernel, potentially allowing code execution and privilege escalation. 199441. CVE-2006-3745 - Local attackers were able to crash PowerPC systems...

Linux Kernel 2.4.x mremap() bound checking Root Exploit

No description provided by source. / Linux kernel mremap bound checking bug exploit. Bug found by Paul Starzetz paul isec pl Copyright c 2004 iSEC Security Research. All Rights Reserved. THIS PROGRAM IS FOR EDUCATIONAL PURPOSES ONLY IT IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY. COPYING,...

CVE-2006-1859

Memory leak in setlease in fs/locks.c in Linux kernel before 2.6.16.16 allows attackers to cause a denial of service memory consumption via unspecified actions related to an "uninitialised return value," aka "slab leak."...

Memory corruption

Memory leak in setlease in fs/locks.c in Linux kernel before 2.6.16.16 allows attackers to cause a denial of service memory consumption via unspecified actions related to an "uninitialised return value," aka "slab leak."...